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Overview and Scrutiny Committee: Proposed Work Programme 2020/21

Meeting: 27/02/2020 - Executive (Item 98)

98 Overview and Scrutiny Committee: Proposed Work Programme 2020/21

Report to follow. The Overview and Scrutiny Committee meets on 20 February 2020, and the recommendation of that meeting will be published as an addendum.

Supporting documents:

Decision:

RECOMMENDED: that the Overview and Scrutiny Work Programme for 2020/21 be approved by Council.

Minutes:

The Chair of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee, Councillor Harrison, introduced the proposed Overview and Scrutiny Work Programme for 2020/21. The Overview and Scrutiny Committee would consider relevant strategies, Portfolio Holder objectives, updates from Executive, performance management and crime and disorder, as in previous years.

 

Councillor Harrison noted that the Governance Task Group would be considering how audit arrangements should be dealt with by the Council. The proposed Work Programme assumed audit functions would continue to remain within the remit of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee. If this changed, these activities would be removed from the Work Programme.

 

The Leader of the Council expressed his support for the proposed Work Programme and thanked the Committee for the work it had undertaken this year.

 

RECOMMENDED: that the Overview and Scrutiny Work Programme for 2020/21 be approved by Council.

 

Reason for decision: To agree a work programme for the Overview and Scrutiny Committee for the 2020/21 Municipal Year.

 

Alternative options:

The Executive request that the Overview and Scrutiny Committee reconsiders the work programme.


Meeting: 20/02/2020 - Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Item 43)

43 Overview and Scrutiny Committee: Proposed Work Programme 2020/21

To consider the proposed work programme for the Committee for 2020/21.

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Minutes:

Members considered the proposed work programme for the Overview and Scrutiny Committee for the 2020/21 Municipal Year. The programme of activity set out the work to be considered by the Committee from May 2020. It was noted that emerging strategies that could be scrutinised included the Council’s environmental strategy and the Borough’s response to Gatwick Airport’s consultation on the increased use of its existing emergency runway.

RESOLVED – that the Overview and Scrutiny Committee: Proposed Work Programme 2020/21 be approved.