Issue - meetings

The Chairman of the Overview and Scrutiny Board, Councillor C. Hotham, presented the minutes of the meeting of the Board held on 22^nd November 2021.  During this meeting, Members had received a detailed presentation on the subject of the use of CCTV to tackle fly tipping.  Councils had the power to undertake both overt and covert CCTV use.  However, the Board had learned that there were complex legal requirements in respect of covert use of CCTV cameras and this would need to be agreed by the Audit, Standards and Governance Committee.  The Board had also discussed the report in respect of the financial update regarding Leisure Services and understood the position of the Council in respect of this matter.

During consideration of this item, reference was made to the work of the Libraries Task Group.  Members questioned the length of time that this review had taken and commented that the Chairman of the group would receive a Special Responsibility Allowance (SRA) for chairing the meetings of the group.  Councillor Hotham explained that the group had been reconvened to consider the wording of their recommendations, following the response that had been received from Cabinet to the group’s proposals.  It was likely that the Flooding Task Group would also be reconvened once the report from officers on the subject of flooding, which had been mentioned at the Cabinet meeting when the group’s recommendations were noted, was available for Members’ consideration.

RESOLVED that the minutes of the meeting of the Overview and Scrutiny Board held on 22^nd November 2021 be noted.