Agenda item

8.1

Matthew Borland, Policy and Improvement Officer, submitted a report setting out a number of options in terms of how the Committee could scrutinise topics, together with a number of potential topics for the Committee to consider as part of its Work Programme 2014/15.  The four proposed ways in which the Committee could consider to scrutinise topics included in-depth work, single topic meetings, items for business meetings and written briefings, and set out a number of suggested topics under each of the four headings.

8.2

RESOLVED: That the Committee:-

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

(b)       agrees:-

(i)        the four options with regard to how it could choose to scrutinise topics;

(ii)      that house building and the local economy be considered as part of a piece of in-depth work, with the Chair to contact Councillor Chris Weldon, Chair of the Safer and Stronger Communities Scrutiny and Policy Development Committee, to see if this work can be undertaken as a joint scrutiny exercise;

(iii)     that the future role of the City Centre be included as a piece of in-depth work;

(iv)     that broadband and economic development and the Waste Strategy be discussed at single topic meetings; and

(v)      that the Chair, Deputy Chair and the Policy and Improvement Officer should develop a draft Work Programme 2014/15 based on the comments now made, for submission to its next meeting for further consideration.