Issue - meetings
Report back on Changes to the Constitution
Meeting: 19/01/2010 - Executive - for meetings from 03/06/00 to 26/04/11 (Item 141)
141 Update on Constitutional Changes 
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This report updates the Executive on the revisions to its Constitution recently agreed by Council, in accordance with Article 16 of the Constitution.
Additional documents:
Decision:
RESOLVED: That the constitutional changes detailed in Annex A, which have been made as a result of the previous decisions of Council during 2009/10 to amend its scrutiny structure, as well as abolish EMAPS and the Shadow Executive, be formally noted.
REASON: To meet constitutional requirements for reporting to the Executive details of actual changes to the Council’s Constitution.
Minutes:
Members considered a report which provided an update on the revisions to the Constitution recently agreed by Full Council, in accordance with Article 16 of the Constitution.
The revisions related to the formal abolition of the Shadow Executive, the removal of Executive Member Advisory Panels (EMAPs) and the introduction of revised scrutiny structures. Full details were attached as Annex A to the report.
In considering the constitutional revisions, Members commented that it was not yet clear how the new decision-making and scrutiny system would achieve the necessary objectivity, transparency and clarity and that in their view the loss of the former Executive Member and Advisory Panels was regrettable.
RESOLVED: That the constitutional changes detailed in Annex A, which have been made as a result of the previous decisions of Council during 2009/10 to amend its scrutiny structure, as well as abolish EMAPS and the Shadow Executive, be formally noted.
REASON: To meet constitutional requirements for reporting to the Executive details of actual changes to the Council’s Constitution.