Agenda item

The Member Services Manager submitted for consideration the Committee’s work programme for the forthcoming municipal year. 

During consideration of this item the issue of the Members’ attendance records was raised.  The Committee was advised that, as in previous years, a report on this matter would be submitted to the Committee in October but this year the format and information included in the report would be different.  The data would be drawn from the Council’s committee management system, Modern.Gov which enabled Member attendance at each meeting and reasons for non attendance, if known, to be published on the Council’s web-site. Summaries of each Member’s attendance over selected periods could also be viewed on line.  The other major advantage of using Modern.Gov to generate the annual attendance statistics report was that it was far less labour intensive than the previous manual system.  Less detail would be provided within the report but the information previously submitted would be available on the Council’s web-site.

Resolved – That the Work Programme as submitted be noted and  approved.