Issue - meetings

Report CSD17004

The Committee considered the proposed programme of meetings for 2017/18. The programme, which had been subject to extensive consultation with Members and officers, was largely based on the current 2016/17 timetable. One change to the published timetable was proposed and agreed – that the SACRE meeting proposed for 28^th June 2017 be moved to 12^th July 2017.

A number of Members commented on the growing number of changes to meeting dates, and suggested that where this was because of the unavailability of the Chairman there should be a greater expectation that the Vice-Chairman should take the chair, rather than that the date should change. Other Members commented that the timetable was already very full, with few options for moving meetings, and that sometimes there were very valid reasons for dates being changed.

 The chairman noted these comments and urged that there should be more discipline in sticking to the published timetable.

RESOLVED that, subject to any changes to meeting arrangements subsequently agreed by Members, the Programme of Meetings for 2017/18 be approved (including SACRE moving to 12^th July 2017, as outlined above.)