To consider and determine recommendations of the Executive which require the approval or consideration of the Council:-

A.  Local Development Framework – Cabinet Member for Housing and Community Safety (and Deputy Leader of the Council), 21 December 2017.  (Pages 57 - 84)

The Council is recommended to approve the adoption of the revised Local Development Scheme and that the Scheme comes into effect on the day following the Council resolution.

Further papers considered by the Cabinet Member and referenced in the report can be viewed on the Council website here.  (Copies can be provided on request).

B.  Calendar of Meetings – Cabinet, 26 February 2018 (Minute 87 refers)  (Pages 85 - 106)

The Council is recommended to adopt the calendar of meetings for the 2018/19 Municipal Year.

C.  Responsibility For Local Choice Functions at Part 3 of the Council Constitution – Cabinet, 28 February 2018 (Minute 95(6) refers)

Minute 95 (extract) –

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(6)  so as to provide for appointments which were in furtherance of the exercise of an executive function, including the appointment of representatives on the WGC, it be recommended to Council that Paragraph 16 of Responsibility For Local Choice Functions at Table 1 of Part 3 of the Council’s Constitution be amended so that the decision making body for the appointment to a body or office reads ‘The Council or in respect of executive function the Leader or Cabinet’;

D.  Pay Policy Statement 2018/19  (Pages 107 - 124)

The Leader of the Council and the Deputy Leader of the Council to recommend the Pay Policy Statement 2018/19 to the Council.

To consider and determine recommendations of Overview and Scrutiny Committees and Council Committees which require the approval or consideration of the Council:-

E.  Road Traffic (Vehicle Emissions) (Fixed Penalty) (England) Regulations 2002 - Environment Overview and Scrutiny Committee, 30 November 2017 (Minute 33(2) refers)  (Pages 125 - 134)

The Council is recommended to adopt Part 6(3) of the Road Traffic (Vehicle Emissions) (Fixed Penalty) (England) Regulations 2002.

F.  Cabinet Member Question Time at Council Meetings - Standards and Constitutional Oversight Committee, 27 February 2018 (Minute 11(2) refers) (Pages 135 - 138)

The Council is recommended to extend Cabinet Member question time at meetings of the Council to 45 minutes.

G.  Amendments to the Scheme of Delegation in the Council’s Constitution - Standards and Constitutional Oversight Committee, 27 February 2018 (Minute 16 refers) (Pages 139 - 144)

The Council is recommended to adopt amendments to the Scheme of Delegation within the Council’s Constitution.

H.  Appointment of Monitoring Officer – Employment and Appointments Committee, 6 March 2018 (Minute reference to be notified)

The Council is asked to approve the revision of the post of Assistant Director: Law and Governance to that of Director – Governance & Assurance and to confirm, subject to the Council’s standard pre-employment process, the permanent appointment of Philip McCourt to the post of Director – Governance & Assurance (Monitoring Officer). 

In accordance with Standing Order 5(2) several matters had been submitted for approval or consideration by the Council and were determined as indicated in Minutes 132 - 138 below.

Councillor Phil Davies introduced a report which recommended draft dates for Council, Cabinet and Committee meetings (“Council Meetings”) for the municipal year 2018/2019. The report also described the various issues that had been taken into account in compiling it.

Other issues that did not constitute a meeting of the Council and therefore did not require inclusion in the Calendar of Meetings were set out in Appendix 2 of the report. Notification of the other meetings was given now to enable Members to manage their diaries.

Councillor Davies referred to one amendment, which had been suggested by Scrutiny Officers, for the date of the Children and Families Overview and Scrutiny Committee to be changed from 6 June to 3 July, 2018.

RESOLVED: That:

(1)  the draft Calendar of Meetings for the 2018/2019 Municipal Year, set out at appendix 1 to the report for approval, subject to the amendment above, and unless amended at the meeting of Council on 19 March, 2018, be confirmed as the calendar of meetings for the Municipal Year 2018/19;

(2)  the other meetings detailed set out in Appendix 2 be noted.

(3)  any proposed amendments to the Calendar of Meetings and Appendix 2 be submitted to the Interim Assistant Director: Law and Governance by no later than 10am on Friday, 9 March 2018.