Agenda item

7.1

The Policy and Improvement Officer (Alice Nicholson) submitted a report containing a review of the Committee’s Work Programme 2016/17 and attaching, as an appendix, a draft of the Scrutiny Annual Report 2016/17, containing details of highlights of the work of the Committee during this period.

7.2

Ms Nicholson made specific reference to the requirement for the Committee to consider the report and recommendations of the Western Road First World War Memorial Trees Task and Finish Cross Party Working Group at a meeting during the Municipal Year 2016/17.  Councillor Lisa Banes, a member of the Working Group, indicated that whilst the majority of the Working Group’s work had been completed, it had still not seen the report of the Independent Tree Panel or the Council’s response to this report, therefore a special meeting would have to be arranged on a date when this information was available, thus leaving a very short timescale.  Ms Nicholson stated that the most suitable date for the special meeting of the Committee was Tuesday, 16^th May 2017, at 12.30 pm. 

7.3

RESOLVED: That the Committee:-

(a)       notes the contents of the report now submitted, together with the comments now made; and

(b)       agrees:-

(i)        the date and time of the special meeting to consider the report and recommendations of the Western Road First World War Memorial Trees Task and Finish Cross Party Working Group as Tuesday, 16^th May 2017, at 12.30 pm in the Town Hall; and 

(ii)      that the following topics be added to its Work Programme 2017/18:-

·                De-culverting of Rivers

·                Small Businesses

·                City Library Building/Sheffield Retail Quarter.