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Proposed Decision making for Transitional Arrangements

Meeting: 21/06/2022 - Executive (Item 25)

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Recommendations – That:

i.      The Executive approve the creation of the 7 Cross Party Working Groups identified in paragraph 3.2 of the report;

ii.     All Political Groups in the Council appoint relevant members onto the Groups;

iii.    The Groups report back their findings and recommendations to the Executive (and/or relevant Scrutiny Committee) as appropriate;

 

Minutes:

Considered - A report of the Assistant Chief Executive (Legal & Democratic Services) presenting proposals for engaging with members on the necessary decision making processes that were needed prior to vesting date.

 

County Councillor David Chance introduced the report which detailed a proposal to enable greater member engagement in the work to deliver the aims identified in the North Yorkshire (Structural Changes) Order 2022 Case for Change.

 

Attention was drawn to remits of the seven proposed working groups listed in paragraph 3.2 of the report, and the planned informal working arrangements for those groups;

 

 

Members queried how the District Council functions not covered by those remits would fit and it was confirmed that a number of District Council services e.g. Street Scene would simply be lifted and shifted to the new Council following vesting day.  It was also noted the Member Working Groups would sit alongside the officer led working groups leading on the LGR work streams.

 

Cllr Bryn Griffiths suggested that each Member Working Group should be made up of 9 Councillors and not 10.  He also questioned whether a Working Group focussed on achieving Net Zero Carbon by 2030 might be helpful.

 

In response, it was confirmed that the work of the Member Working Groups would be focussed only on immediate transitional issues that needed addressing in preparation for vesting day, and not on Council’s medium to long-term ambitions.

 

All Executive members voted in favour of the report recommendations, and it was

 

Resolved - That:

i.      The creation of the 7 Cross Party Working Groups identified in paragraph 3.2 of the report be approved;

ii.     All Political Groups in the Council appoint relevant members onto the Groups;

iii.    The Groups report back their findings and recommendations to the Executive (and/or relevant Scrutiny Committee) as appropriate;