The
Governance Committee is leading on work to transition to a
committee system of governance from May 2022. It is a politically
proportionate Committee which will be tasked with oversight of the
transitional work and will approve the recommendations to be made
to Full Council.
The Committee will be outward
facing. The Council will not be working in isolation on this
project but will seek input from outside the organisation, ensuring
citizens are engaged and are provided with opportunities to help
shape this programme of work The Council will also be engaging the
professional support of agencies such as the Local Government
Association, the Centre for Governance and Scrutiny and Monitoring
Officers from other local authorities which have recently
transitioned or are about to transition to a Committee system. This
will ensure the Council is supported through this period and learns
from best practice to ensure that the system implemented in
Sheffield responds to the needs of our City.
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: committee@sheffield.gov.uk. This is necessary to facilitate the management of
attendance at the meeting and to maintain social
distancing.
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 Governance Committee meetings under
the direction of the Chair of the meeting. The
protocol on audio/visual recording and
photography provides further information.
