Issue - meetings

The Chairman invited Councillor C. J. Bloore to introduce this item as Chairman of the Task Group.  Councillor Bloore informed the Board that the Cabinet at its meeting on 5th October 2011 had approved the recommendations of the Reduction in Bus Services Task Group, subject to a revision of the wording regarding Corporate Delegations within the Constitution.

RECOMMENDED that the Constitution with regard to Corporate Delegations be amended to read as follows:

 “1.1    Where the Council is asked to respond to a consultation on a matter for          which the local authority has a responsibility or where it affects the             District of Bromsgrove and where the time scales for responding permit     then they shall be a matter for the Full Council to consider.

1.2       In any event all consultations will pass automatically upon receipt to the            Chief Executives Department and will either be managed in            accordance with 1.1 above or where 1.1 does not apply will be passed      to the Leader of the Council for comment and the relevant Head of       Service or Director to provide a response as appropriate.

For the purposes of this delegation a consultation shall not be regarded as affecting the District of Bromsgrove if it relates to a national issue and would have no more effect on the District of Bromsgrove than it would on any other area; or

If it relates to actions taken by or statements made by a body or individual connected with the District, but those actions or statements are not specifically related to the District of Bromsgrove.”