At the Policy, Projects and Resources Committee on the 20th June 2017 it was agreed that the following Corporate Projects be considered by the Corporate Projects Scrutiny Committee in 2017/18:

·         Town Hall Redevelopment – Customer Services/Member Portal

·         Leisure Strategy

·         Local Development Plan

·         Town Centre Redevelopment

The Corporate Projects Committee would also have responsibility to review decisions made, or other action taken, regarding the discharge by the responsible authorities of their crime and disorder functions.  In addition, it had responsibility for the monitoring of Council service performance, including Performance indicators, Formal Complaints and Freedom of Information requests.  

At the Corporate Projects Scrutiny Committee on 3 September 2017 it was agreed in addition to the projects set out in 1.2 and 1.3 in the report that a working group would scrutinise the Council’s Emergency Planning procedures. 

The Corporate Projects Scrutiny Committee would make recommendations to the appropriate decision making committees and Council as necessary.  The Corporate Projects Scrutiny Committee were invited to consider its 2017/18 updated work programme which included the scopes for the Local Development Plan and the Town Centre which had been approved by the Policy, Projects and Resources Committee on the 19^th September 2017. 

The 2017/18 updated work programme at Appendix A of the report had set out the latest proposed position with regards to the working groups. 

The committee deliberated he detail of Appendix A of the report that had set out the latest proposed position with regards to the working groups. 

Cllr Tumbridge asked when the Local Development Plan would be coming to Full Council.  Officers advised that the Council Leader would be providing a response to that question in due course. 

Cllr Mynott raised the issue of the number of substitutes allowed for the committee.  Cllr Tumbridge advised that this issue could be reviewed and considered at the Constitution Working Group of which he was Chair. 

A motion was MOVED by Cllr Mrs Pound and SECONDED by Cllr Reed to defer the work programme report until the next meeting to enable inclusion of detailed dates of when the working groups will be responding to the Corporate Projects Scrutiny Committee.

A vote was taken by a show of hands and it was RESOLVED UNANIMOUSLY that:

1.    The Corporate Projects Scrutiny Committee updated work programme 2017/18 (Appendix A of the report) be deferred until the next meeting to enable inclusion of detailed dates of when the working groups will be responding to the Corporate Projects Scrutiny Committee. 

REASON FOR RECOMMENDATION

The Constitution required that the Corporate Projects Scrutiny Committee agreed its work programme at each meeting of the Committee.