Agenda

(NB. The meeting will adjourn following the appointment of the Deputy Lord Mayor and reconvene at 2.30 p.m.)

Members to declare any interests they have in the business to be considered at the meeting.

To approve, with or without amendment, the recommendations in the report of the General Counsel (and Monitoring Officer), published with this agenda, regarding changes to the Council’s Constitution to bring it up to date.

To receive any announcements from the Lord Mayor, Leader of the Council and/or the Chief Executive.

To establish Council Committees and approve the appointment of Members to serve on those Committees, for the Municipal Year 2024-25, in accordance with details to be circulated at the meeting.

A report of the Director of Policy and Democratic Engagement outlining the legal requirements to allocate seats on Council Committees to political groups on a politically proportionate basis, will be published prior to the meeting.

To receive nominations to the positions of Chair, Deputy Chair and Group Spokespersons for each Policy Committee and the Finance Committee; Chair and Deputy Chair of the Regulatory Committees and other Council Committees (except the Local Area Committees); and to appoint the Chairs and Deputy Chairs (and Group Spokespersons, where relevant) of those Committees, for the Municipal Year 2024-25, in accordance with details to be circulated at the meeting.

(Note: 1. The Chairs and Deputy Chairs of the Local Area Committees will be appointed at the first meeting of each of those Committees, which are to be held, consecutively, immediately after the conclusion of the Annual Meeting of the Council.  The agendas for these meetings will be published with this agenda.

2. The Chairs and Deputy Chairs of the two standing Sub-Committees of Policy Committees (Charity Trustee Sub-Committee and Health Scrutiny Sub-Committee) will be appointed at the first meeting of their parent Policy Committees, which are also to be held, consecutively, immediately after the conclusion of the first meetings of the Local Area Committees.  Each of the Policy Committees and the Finance Committee will meet to establish their Urgency Sub-Committees and the two standing sub-committees, and the agendas for these meetings will also be published with this agenda.)

To approve appointments to Council Panels, Working Groups, etc, and to external bodies, for the Municipal Year 2024-25, in accordance with details to be circulated at the meeting.

To approve a schedule of Council and Committee meetings for the Municipal Year 2024-25.

Details of the proposed schedule of meetings will be circulated at the meeting.

To agree the order in which Notices of Motion will be listed on the Council Summons for ordinary meetings of the Council during the Municipal Year 2024-25.

Details of the proposed order, which shall be based according to the relative sizes of the various political groups on the Council, will be circulated at the meeting.

To pass a resolution of thanks for the service provided to the Council by former Councillors who had not sought re-election, or who had not been re-elected, at the municipal elections held on 2^nd May 2024.