Issue - meetings

To consider the proposed member/Officer relations protocol and recommend to Full Council that the protocol be adopted into the Constitution.

The Borough Solicitor submitted a report containing a draft Member/Officer Relations Protocol the aim of which was to guide Members and officers of Cheshire East Council in their relations.

The Protocol would help build good working relationships between members and officers as they work together to build the new Authority.

The Member/Officer Relations Protocol had been prepared in conjunction with other codes and protocols contained elsewhere within the Cheshire East Constitution. 

RESOLVED –

(a) That the proposed Member/Officer Relations Protocol be endorsed;

(b) That Council be recommended to adopt the draft Member/Officer Relations Protocol as contained in the appendix to the report into the Constitution.