Issue - items at meetings - Initial Review of the First Round of Cabinet and Cabinet Member Meetings.

Director of Strategy & Governance to report (verbal update).

RESOLVED – That the information be noted.

17.1         The Head of Legal & Democratic Services stated that overall the first round of Cabinet and Cabinet Member meetings had gone well and been well received by Members and members of the public.  He noted that the timetabling of some meetings had already been reviewed with some Cabinet Member Meetings be moved to a quarterly schedule i.e. Finance and Central Services.  It was likely that there would be further changes to the timetabling of meetings in light of the two cycles leading up to the August recess and this would be included as part of the 6-month review of the constitution.

17.2         Councillor Mears stated that she had been pleased with how the meetings and process and gone following the adoption of the new constitution and wished to record her thanks to the officers responsible for enabling the meetings to work well and run smoothly.

17.3         Members of the Committee noted the information and stated that whilst the meetings had gone well, there were still some reservations about how the Cabinet system would operate and it was likely that it would take some time before all Members were aware of how to utilise the new system effectively for their own needs.

17.4         RESOLVED – That the information be noted.