Issue - meetings

Recording of Attendance, Apologies and Absences at meetings

 

 

Meeting: 05/11/2015 - Council Business Committee (Item 13)

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Report of the Chief Officer (Governance).

Minutes:

The Committee considered a report, requested by a Councillor, to look at how absences and apologies were recorded and how they were shown on the Council’s website.

 

The Democratic Services Manager explained that the website currently pulled figures direct from the Committee Management software (Modern.gov) for the number of meetings each Councillor was expected to attend and the number attended, as well as a percentage of attendance and absence.

 

The Committee agreed that it was not helpful to show the percentages. The Democratic Services Manager agreed to investigate with Modern.gov whether the percentage figures could be removed from the website. Councillor Metcalfe, seconded by Councillor Joan Jackson, proposed that this be undertaken.

 

Resolved:

 

That the Democratic Services Manager remove the percentage attendance figures for each Councillor from the Council’s website, if possible.