The
Overview and Scrutiny Management Committee comprises the Chairs and
Deputy Chairs of the four Scrutiny and Policy Development
Committees. Its remit is:
·
Lead on the scrutiny work
planning process
·
Lead the scrutiny of
high-level cross-cutting and city-wide issues – appointing
joint committees where appropriate
·
Scrutinise the use of Council resources – Resources Portfolio,
budget monitoring, annual budget setting process
·
Performance monitoring
– referring areas of concern to the relevant Scrutiny and
Policy Development Committee where appropriate
Attending
Meetings
Meetings of
the Committee are open to the public.
There
is an opportunity for members of the public to ask questions and
submit petitions under the agenda item 'Public Questions and
Petitions'.
As we are still
operating under Social Distancing Rules, if you wish to ask a
question or present a petition at the meeting, you must submit the
question/petition in writing at least 2 clear days in advance of
the date of the meeting, by email to the following address:
scrutiny@sheffield.gov.uk or by telephone 0114
2056272). This is necessary to
facilitate the management of attendance at the meeting and to
maintain social distancing. For
meetings held on a Wednesday, questions/petitions will need to be
received by 9.00 a.m. on the Monday of that week. You will also be
asked to provide a contact email and/or telephone
number.
Due to health and
safety restrictions in place to ensure current social distancing
rules in our meeting rooms, we are unable to guarantee entrance to
observers, as priority will be given to registered speakers. To
observe the meeting as a member of the public, please click on the
‘view the webcast’ link provided on the meeting page of
the website.
The Chair of the
meeting has discretion as to how questions and petitions are
presented at the meeting and as to whether you are invited to ask
your question or present a petition at the meeting or they are read
out at the meeting. A response to the question or petition will be
given by the appropriate Member or Council officer. If you are not able to attend the meeting,
your question/petition may be referred to the appropriate Member,
Council officer or organisation and an answer/response will be
provided to you.
Where a submitted
question or petition cannot be answered because time does not
allow, or where a Member undertakes to provide a written
answer/response, the written answer/response will be provided to
you and will be published on the Council website.
Please note that the Chair of
the meeting may not accept petitions or questions which relate
to:-
(i) matters not being within the
responsibility of the Local Authority or which affects the City or
its inhabitants;
(ii)
judicial or quasi-judicial matters;
(iii)
individual planning/licence/grant applications or
appeals;
(iv)
named officers or Members of the Council;
(v)
confidential matters of the type referred to in Schedule 12A to the
Local Government Act, 1972; or
(vi)
matters of an irrelevant, repetitious, defamatory, frivolous or
offensive nature or a general misuse of the opportunity.
Please note that meetings will
be filmed for live or subsequent broadcast via the council’s
website. See the Council’s Webcasting Notice for more
details.
Further
information is available on submitting petitions.
Recording is allowed at Scrutiny Committee meetings under the
direction of the Chair of the meeting. The
protocol on audio/visual recording and photography provides
further information.