Agenda item

To consider the recommendations made by Cabinet or Committees since the last ordinary Council meeting relating to the following matters:

General Purposes & Audit Committee – 25 January 2022

i         Revisions to the Council’s Constitution

General Purposes & Audit Committee – 3 March 2022

i         Revisions to the Council’s Constitution

ii         Review of the Scheme of Members’ Allowances

Cabinet – 21 March 2022

i         Housing Revenue Account (HRA) 30 Year Business Plan 2021-2051 and HRA Capital Programme 2022/23

The Mayor explained that in order to make time for retiring Members to make final addresses to council, the administration had agreed to forego the time permitted to them to introduce each set of recommendations and both political groups had agreed that they were content for Council to vote on all four sets of recommendations together.

The Mayor invited the Leader to move all the recommendations.

The Leader moved the recommendations.

Councillor King seconded the recommendations.

The recommendations were put to the vote and were carried.

RESOLVED: Council AGREED the recommendations in the reports as set out below:

RECOMMENDATIONS FROM GENERAL PURPOSES & AUDIT COMMITTEE HELD ON 25 JANUARY 2022

Revisions to the Council’s Constitution

1.1       To approve the changes to the Constitution as detailed in section 2 of the report (Appendix 1) and set out more fully in Appendix 1.1.

RECOMMENDATIONS FROM GENERAL PURPOSES & AUDIT COMMITTEE HELD ON 3 MARCH 2022

Revisions to the Council’s Constitution

1.2       To approve the changes to the Constitution as detailed in section 2 of the report (Appendix 2) and set out more fully in Appendix 2.1 and that:

i)                 The following changes shall be implemented with immediate effect:

·       Section 4.22 (Emergency or extreme urgency) of Part 3 - Responsibility for Functions; and

·        Part 4I - Tender and Contract Regulations

ii)               All other changes shall be implemented with effect from 00.01 hours on the third day after the day of declaration of the result of the poll at the first election of the Mayor.

Review of the Scheme of Members’ Allowances

1.3       To consider the options detailed in the report on an updated scheme of Members' allowances to full Council, informed by the recommendations of the Independent Remuneration Panel and to agree the proposal detailed in Appendix 3.2 of the report (Appendix 3);

1.4       To agree the proposal to reintroduce directly provided ICT to Members and the elected Mayor as described in section four of the report (Appendix 3);

1.5       To authorise the Monitoring Officer to comply with the necessary statutory publicity requirements in respect of the Independent Review Panel report 2022; the on-going annual publicity of the Members' scheme of allowances which is required; and the approval of the revised Members' Allowance Scheme following consideration of the proposal recommended by the Committee (as per recommendation 1.3 above)

1.6       To delegate to the General Purposes and Audit Committee authority to agree an annual adjustment of allowances by reference to the annual local government staff pay settlement where the only change made to the Scheme in any year is that effected by such annual adjustment; and

1.7       To agree that a further review of the scheme be undertaken either following the May 2022 local elections, if required, or following the publication of the further review of the remuneration of councillors due to be undertaken by London Councils' Independent Remuneration Panel during 2022-23.

RECOMMENDATIONS FROM CABINET HELD ON 21 MARCH 2022

Housing Revenue Account (HRA) 30 Year Business Plan 2021- 2051 and HRA Capital Programme 2022/23

1.8       To approve the HRA Capital Programme for 2022/23 as set out in Appendix 4.6.