Issue - meetings

To consider whether the terms of reference of the Civic Sub-Committee should be reviewed.

The Committee considered whether the terms of reference of the Civic Sub-Committee should be reviewed.

The Sub-Committee had been appointed by the former Governance and Constitution Committee in 2009 to consider and make recommendations on the approach to the election of the Mayor and Deputy Mayor and the adoption of a Mayoral Code of Practice. The Sub-Committee was given an ongoing role in respect of the election of the Mayor and Deputy Mayor each year, utilising the approach adopted by Council.

The Constitution Committee had subsequently added additional responsibilities to the Sub-Committee’s terms of reference which were now as follows:

§  reviewing and making recommendations to the Constitution Committee on the Mayoralty, including the Mayoral Code of Practice;

§  reviewing and making recommendations to the Constitution Committee on all matters relating to Honorary Aldermen and Freemen, including upon the benefits, rights and privileges to which they should be entitled;

§  determining all matters relating to nationally significant events except for those matters which the Sub-Committee considers it appropriate to refer to the Constitution Committee for determination; and

§  reviewing and making recommendations to the Constitution Committee on civic matters such as the Council’s flag flying policy and civic regalia.

At a recent Council meeting, it was commented that it was perhaps time for the terms of reference of the Civic-Sub Committee to be reviewed. 

RESOLVED

That the Constitution Working Group be asked to review the Civic Sub-Committee’s terms of reference and report to the Committee.