To enable Cabinet to consider the timetable of meetings for the 2026/2027 Municipal Year, together with provisional dates of meetings for the remainder of the calendar year (2027).

RESOLVED that –

(a)     the timetable of meetings for the Council and its Committees, as set out in the Appendix to the report (A.8), be agreed, in principle, subject to the correction of the date of the All Members’ Briefing in July 2026, and be submitted to the Annual Meeting of the Council for formal approval; and

(b)     the proposed dates for formal meetings of the Cabinet, the All Members’ Briefings and Councillor Development Sessions be noted.

Cabinet considered a report of the Corporate Finance & Governance Portfolio Holder (A.8) which enabled it to consider the timetable of meetings for the 2026/2027 Municipal Year, together with provisional dates of meetings for the remainder of the calendar year (2027) and to, as required by the Constitution, to submit a timetable of meetings for formal approval to the Annual Meeting of the Council.

Members were made aware that the Structural Changes Order for the Local Government Reorganisation process was anticipated to come into force in November or December 2026. At this point the Joint Committee would be formed which would require further decisions to be made. Dates of the meetings of the Joint Committee and further related information would be provided to Members in due course. The Joint Committee would operate until the Shadow Unitary Authority first met which would be in May 2027.

It was pointed out that the date of the All Members’ Briefing in July 2026 should have been listed for 8^th July (a Wednesday) rather than 11^th July (which was a Saturday).

Having considered the timetable of meetings proposed by the Corporate Finance & Governance Portfolio Holder and 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 Stephenson, seconded by Councillor Scott and:-

RESOLVED that –

(a)     the timetable of meetings for the Council and its Committees, as set out in the Appendix to the report (A.8), be agreed, in principle, subject to the correction of the date of the All Members’ Briefing in July 2026, and be submitted to the Annual Meeting of the Council for formal approval; and

(b)     the proposed dates for formal meetings of the Cabinet, the All Members’ Briefings and Councillor Development Sessions be noted.