Issue - meetings

This reports asks Members to endorse the final draft of the policy prospectus for the municipal year 2008/9, which represents an agreement between three of the Council’s political groups on the topics to be pursued as areas of priority over the next 12 months.

RESOLVED: That the policy prospectus for the 2008/09 Municipal Year be endorsed.

REASON:      In order to prioritise the topics agreed by Group Leaders.

Members considered a report which asked them to endorse the final draft of the policy prospectus for the 2008/09 Municipal Year. 

The draft prospectus, attached as Annex 1 to the report, represented an agreement between the Council’s Liberal Democrat, Conservative and Green political groups regarding the topics they wished to be pursued as priority areas over the next twelve months.  The Labour Group, having withdrawn from the political management arrangements in February 2008, had opted to use alternative methods to prioritise areas that they considered relevant.

Having noted the comments of the Shadow Executive on this item it was

RESOLVED: That the policy prospectus for the 2008/09 Municipal Year be endorsed.¹

REASON:      In order to prioritise the topics agreed by Group Leaders.