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Report to follow.

Consideration was given to the report of the Monitoring Officer on options for delivering local functions from 1 April 2009.  It was reported that following circulation of the report further consideration had been given to the decision requested; a revised wording had subsequently been prepared and a copy of this was circulated and agreed to by the Cabinet.  In addition it was noted that in Section 1: Responsibility for Local Choice Functions the Officer to whom the function of appointing Members to Police Authorities had been left blank but that this would be the Borough Solicitor.

RESOLVED

For the reasons set out in the report: -

That the Governance and Constitution Committee be requested to recommend to Council that:

1. With effect from Vesting Day, the allocation of local choice functions between Cabinet and the Council, and the further delegations to committees and officers, be as set out in the appendices to the report, subject to the Borough Solicitor being responsible for arrangements for questions at Council on Police Authority functions.
2. The Monitoring Officer be authorised to determine the remaining detail of the allocation of local choice functions in consultation with the Leader and appropriate Cabinet Members, and to make such amendments to the Council’s emerging Constitution as he considers are necessary to give effect to the decision of Council.