Decision details
Change to Full Council meeting date
Decision Maker: Chief Executive Officer - Jane Portman
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
Purpose:
To consider a change to the July 2024 Full Council meeting date.
Decision:
To move the Full Council meeting date from Wednesday 17 July 2024 to Wednesday 31 July 2024.
Reasons for the decision:
In light of a General Election being called for 4 July 2024, a number of the Council’s meetings and their associated publication dates and processes are close to the polling day for the election and agendas would need to be published during the pre-election period. The current meeting timetable would require staff affected by the Publica Transition to be briefed on the Transition in the days leading up to the General Election, which many staff will be focused on delivering, which was not considered to be appropriate. Therefore, it was considered appropriate to move the meetings to later in the month. Whilst other meetings can be moved as appropriate within the provisions of the Constitution, Full Council is normally required to agree changes to its own schedule of meetings. In the absence of a Council meeting before July 2024, the only option available was for Urgency Powers by the Chief Executive to be used.
Alternative options considered:
Consideration was given to continuing to hold the meetings at the scheduled times, but this was not deemed to be appropriate option as pre-election period rules still applied.
Urgent item?: Yes
Publication date: 12/06/2024
Date of decision: 12/06/2024
Accompanying Documents:
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