Agenda item

Referral from Council Business Committee.

Councillor Hall presented a report of Council Business Committee, asking Council to approve a timetable of meetings for the 2017/18 municipal year. She proposed the recommendations, as set out in the report, seconded by Councillor Reynolds.

Councillor Ashworth, seconded by Councillor Blamire, proposed an amendment to proposal (1) by way of providing and alternative timetable to the one set out at Appendix 1 of the report. The alternative timetable had been circulated to members at the start of the meeting.

The proposer and seconder of the original motion accepted the alternative timetable as a friendly amendment to proposal (1).

Councillor Devey then proposed a further amendment, which was also accepted as a friendly amendment:

“That there be no change to the start time of Annual Council.”

It was noted that Annual Council was a meeting in two parts, with the Mayor-making at noon on Friday generally being referred to as “Annual Council” and second part, dealing with appointments for the new Municipal Year and starting at 6.30pm on the Monday after Mayor-making generally being referred to as “Annual Business Council.”  Officers clarified that the recommendation to change the start time proposed in the report referred to part two of the Annual Council meeting, not Mayor-making.

The motion, complete with friendly amendments, was carried when put to the vote.

Resolved:

(1)     That the Committee Timetable for 2017/18 be approved. (Copy appended to these minutes).

(2)     That:

a)      The start time of the Joint Consultative Committee (JCC) be changed from 4pm to 5pm and Personnel Committee to start at 6:10pm, ‘or at the rise of JCC, whichever is the later’ with the Chairman to use their discretion regarding an earlier start for JCC depending on the amount of business to be considered.

b)     The venue for Audit Committee be changed from Morecambe Town Hall to Lancaster Town Hall.