Issue - meetings

The Council is requested to consider the report circulated with the agenda, namely the Overview and Scrutiny Committee 2016-2017 Annual Report, which was published as the first appendix to a report considered by the Overview and Scrutiny Committee (OSC) at its meeting on Tuesday 19 June 2018, and to make the following resolution:

The Council is requested to consider this report and the OSC’s recommendation which is set out below.

RECOMMENDATION TO THE COUNCIL

That the Overview and Scrutiny Committee’s Annual Report 2016-2017 be noted.

The Council considered the Overview and Scrutiny Committee’s (OSC) annual report for 2017-2018, which had been circulated at pages 37 to 42 of the Council agenda.

Mrs C Apel (Chichester West and the Chairman of the OSC) formally moved the recommendation in the agenda report and this was seconded by Mrs N Graves (Fernhurst and the Vice-Chairman of the OSC).

Mrs Apel said that this self-explanatory report demonstrated the amount of work undertaken by the OSC in 2017-2018. She drew attention to the mention made in the fifth para of the report (page 37) of the great benefits of scrutiny to the efficiency of a local authority where it is supported and well run. She thanked Mrs B Jones (recently retired Principal Scrutiny Officer), Mr D Hyland (Community and Partnerships Support Manager) and the late Mr S Hansford (Assistant Director of Community Services) for all of their invaluable and unstinting support of the OSC’s work programme and meetings.

There was no discussion of this item.

Decision

On a show of hands the members voted unanimously in favour of the Cabinet’s recommendation with no votes against and no abstentions. 

RESOLVED

That the Overview and Scrutiny Committee’s Annual Report for 2016-2017 be noted.