Issue - meetings
Report on urgent decision
Meeting: 20/03/2024 - Council (Item 36)
36 Report on Urgent Decision 
PDF 98 KB
Purpose
To report to Cabinet and Council on a decision taken by the Chief Executive Officer under urgency powers.
Recommendation
That Full Council resolves to:
1. Note the decision taken as set out in Annex A.
Additional documents:
- Annex A - Urgent Decision Notice January 2024, item 36
PDF 231 KB
- Webcast for Report on Urgent Decision
Minutes:
The purpose of the report was to report to Cabinet and Council on a decision taken by the Chief Executive Officer under urgency powers.
The Leader, Councillor Joe Harris, introduced this item and made the following points:
- The report was to note the urgent decision taken by the Chief Executive.
- Cabinet was not able to consider the version of the Corporate Plan 2024-2028 report at its meeting. As part of the Policy and Budgetary Framework, Cabinet would need to agree to recommend the Corporate Plan to Council.
- In the absence of this decision, the Chief Executive took an urgent decision to recommend to Full Council in January in consultation with the Leader and Deputy Leader.
Councillor Evemy seconded the recommendation to note:
- Cabinet in hindsight would have perhaps provided a delegation to the Chief Executive to avoid the use of the powers but it was important that the urgency powers were used.
The Chair of Overview and Scrutiny Committee noted that whilst the use of the powers was accepted, an error like this should not occur again in future.
A Member suggested that opposition group leaders should be consulted on urgent decisions . The Monitoring Officer confirmed that Urgency Powers would involve consultation with the Chair of Overview and Scrutiny Committee who was required under the Constitution to be an opposition Member. The Leader accepted the point made and stated that this point would be taken up by the Constitution Working Group.
RESOLVED: That Full Council NOTED the decision taken by the Chief Executive under urgency powers.
Meeting: 07/03/2024 - Cabinet (Item 257)
257 Decision Taken Under Urgency Powers PDF 77 KB
Purpose
To report to Cabinet and Council on a decision taken by the Chief Executive Officer under urgency powers.
Recommendations
That Cabinet resolves to:
1. Note the decision taken as set out in Annex A.
2. Recommend to Council to note the decision taken as set out in Annex A.
Additional documents:
- Annex A - Urgent Decision Notice January 2024, item 257
PDF 231 KB
- Webcast for Decision Taken Under Urgency Powers
Decision:
The purpose of the report was to report to Cabinet and Council on a decision taken by the Chief Executive Officer under urgency powers.
Councillor Evemy proposed the recommendations and Councillor McKeown seconded.
RESOLVED: That Cabinet:
1. NOTED the decision taken as set out in Annex A.
2. AGREED recommend to Council to note the decision taken as set out in Annex A.
Voting Record
5 For, 0 Against, 0 Abstention, 3 Absent/Did not vote
Minutes:
The purpose of the report was to report to Cabinet and Council on a decision taken by the Chief Executive Officer under urgency powers.
The Deputy Leader introduced this item on behalf of the Leader and made the following points:
- The decision was taken at January’s Cabinet meeting not to discuss the Corporate Plan in the presented format.
- The Corporate Plan as part of the Council’s Budget and Policy Framework needed to be recommended to Full Council by Cabinet.
- In light of this, the Chief Executive Officer had taken an urgent decision in consultation with the Leader and Deputy Leader and the Chair of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee to approve to recommend the Corporate Plan to Full Council using the Urgency Powers within the Constitution.
The recommendations were proposed by Councillor Evemy and Councillor McKeown seconded.
RESOLVED: That Cabinet:
- NOTED the decision taken as set out in Annex A.
- AGREED recommend to Council to note the decision taken as set out in Annex A.
Voting Record
5 For, 0 Against, 0 Abstention, 3 Absent/Did not vote
|
For |
Against |
Abstention |
Absent/Did not vote |
|
Claire Bloomer |
|
|
Joe Harris |
|
Juliet Layton |
|
|
Lisa Spivey |
|
Mike Evemy |
|
|
Paul Hodgkinson |
|
Mike McKeown |
|
|
|
|
Tony Dale |
|
|
|