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Agenda item

Refresh of the Constitution: Responsibility for Functions, Non-Executive Scheme of Delegation to Officers, Planning Protocol, & Financial Rules

Purpose

To update Council on the work and recommendations of the Constitution Working Group who have been modernising the Constitution.

 

Recommendations

That Council:

  1. Adopt the updated Responsibility for Functions at Appendix 2
  2. Adopt the revised Non-Executive Officer Scheme of Delegation at Appendix 4.
  3. Adopt the updated Planning Protocol at Appendix 6.
  4. Adopt the updated Finance Rules at appendix 7.

Authorise that the Monitoring Officer:

  1. Be authorised to update the Constitution to reflect the inclusion

commitments of the Council, changing 'he or she' to 'he, she or they' and change 'his or her' to 'his, her or their'.

  1. be authorised to publish a final clean version of the constitution (removing track changes, correct any numbering, editing or formatting errors).

 

 

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