Issue - meetings

To present proposed amendments to the Finance and Contract Procedure Rules.

Members considered a report setting out proposed amendments to the Finance and Contract Procedure Rules.

The Rules were part of the Council’s framework for financial control and required periodic review to ensure that resources were used in the most effective way.

During the first few months of the new Council, various issues had been highlighted where Finance and Contract Procedure Rules required amendment. Those amendments considered to be non-substantive had been approved by the Borough Solicitor under the authority delegated to him, following consultation with the Group Whips. Those amendments considered to be more substantive were set out in the Appendix to the report.

RESOLVED

That Council be recommended that

(1)   the amendments to the Finance and Contract Procedure Rules as set out in the Appendix be approved; and

(2)   the Borough Solicitor be authorised to continue to exercise his corrective powers with regard to the Constitution in those cases where he considers it appropriate to do so.