Issue - meetings

(1)       The Committee considered the response by the Leader of the County Council to a questionnaire, he commissioned in July 2007 on all the Policy Overview and Scrutiny Committees (POCs).

(2)       Members of the Committee were given the opportunity to make comments which were as follows:-

·        Members needed to be reminded that they should be contributing to the agendas.

·        The POCs are a Member and not Officer Committee.

·        The POCs are not a decision-making Committee.

·        It needed to be clear when a decision was being made in the meetings.

·        It was considered that too much meeting time was taken listening to progress reports.

·        Members requested written reports before the meetings.

·        Members of the Committee felt that the Cabinet Members should be in attendance at all POC meetings although this was not always the case. 

·        Site visits should be arranged only when necessary.

(3)       RESOLVED that the report and comments in paragraph (2) above be noted.