To enable Cabinet to give consideration to the timetable of meetings for the 2024/2025 Municipal Year.

RESOLVED that -

(a)    the timetable of meetings for the Council and Committees, as set out in the Appendix to the Portfolio Holder’s report (A.3), be agreed, in principle, and be submitted to the Annual Meeting of the Council for formal approval; and

(b)    the proposed dates for All Members’ Briefings and Councillor Development Sessions be noted.

Cabinet considered a report of the Corporate Finance & Governance Portfolio Holder (A.3), which sought its approval, as required by the Constitution, to submit to the Annual Meeting of the Council a timetable of meetings for the 2024/2025 Municipal Year.

Members noted that meetings of the Planning Committee had been provisionally scheduled with a 5.00 p.m. commencement time pending Full Council’s formal decision at its meeting on 19 March 2024 on the Planning Committee’s request (which had been formally supported by Cabinet at its meeting on 16 February 2024) to amend its start time from 6.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m.

Cabinet was aware that its meetings were fixed by the Leader of the Council in accordance with Article 7.08 Cabinet Procedures Rule sub-section 1.1 of the Council’s Constitution and that therefore the scheduling et cetera might change. The public meetings of the Cabinet listed would normally commence at 10.30 a.m.

Having considered the timetable of meetings proposed by the Corporate Finance & Governance Portfolio Holder and in order to enable the timetable of meetings to be submitted to the Annual Meeting of the Council for approval and adoption, in accordance with the Council’s Constitution:-

It was moved by Councillor M E Stephenson, seconded by Councillor Placey and:-

RESOLVED that -

(a)    the timetable of meetings for the Council and Committees, as set out in the Appendix to the Portfolio Holder’s report (A.3), be agreed, in principle, and be submitted to the Annual Meeting of the Council for formal approval; and

(b)    the proposed dates for All Members’ Briefings and Councillor Development Sessions be noted.