Agenda item

8.1

The Committee received a report of the Director of Legal and Governance concerning an update on Transitional Committees. The Chair, Councillor Julie Grocutt, explained the purpose of the report was to provide an opportunity to share information about the Transitional Committees early composite work plans. Each Transitional Committee Chair also had the opportunity to give initial feedback on their first Transitional Committee meetings.

8.2

A Member of the Committee believed the Our Council Transitional Committee first meeting went well. It was mentioned that working groups would be set up to target specific issues within the work programme, although these still needed to be set up in advance of the next Committee meeting.

8.3

A Member informed the Committee that the Communities and Neighbourhoods Transitional Committee had looked at Housing Repairs System at their first meeting. They also discussed setting up working groups which tenants would be able to attend. The Communities and Neighbourhoods Transitional Committee agreed to have an item on each agenda which would allow the Committee to review issues that had been referred to them from a Local Area Committee.

8.4

It was stated the Education, Health and Care Transitional Committee had been rescheduled due to technical issues therefore this Committee had not met yet.

8.5

RESOLVED: That the Committee:

(1) notes the Transitional Committee work programmes and verbal feed-back; and

(2) requests that a written update from the Transitional Committee Chairs be brought to the November meeting of the Governance Committee, on cross-party engagement so that a broad view and range of ideas can be considered; in accordance with their terms of reference, and any proposals they have for pilot ways of working that can inform the work of the Governance Committee in its consideration of a future committee model.