Meetings of this committee are audio
recorded
Constitution:
11 Members (excluding members of the Cabinet and the Chairman
of
the Council) based on political
proportionality.
The
Committee shall report directly to Council. Frequency of Meetings:
at least 4 times
per year.
Terms of reference:
1.
To consider any matters
which affect the authority or the whole or part of
its
administrative area or some or all of the inhabitants of that
area.
2.
To carry out an
overarching scrutiny role. To develop the annual scrutiny
work
programme and submit it to Council for
agreement.
3.
To develop, scrutinise or
review council policies and to make proposals to
the
Cabinet, as appropriate, for new or amended
policies.
4.
To scrutinise policy
decisions to ensure compliance with approved policy
objectives
and to review decisions or proposed decisions of the Council,
the Cabinet or
officers.
5.
To comment upon and make
recommendations to the Cabinet on external
reports
and consultation papers.
6.
To consider issues of
performance.
7.
To receive reports from
the West Sussex Joint Scrutiny Steering Group on any
joint
scrutiny reviews carried out and to comment upon and make
recommendations, as
necessary, to the Cabinet on those reports and
recommendations.
8.
To review performance
against the Council’s Corporate Plan and Annual
Report
and to report to Council as appropriate.
9.
To consider decisions
which have been requested for call-in and to carry out
the
powers in relation to Cabinet decisions made but not implemented
as set out in
Section 21(3) of the Local Government Act
2000.
10.To consider a petition or a request for a review of the
council’s response to a
petition in accordance with the council's petition
scheme.
11.To request evidence from or attendance by officers of the
Council, members of the
public, local organisations, external bodies and partnerships as
covered by scrutiny
guidance and legislation to contribute to and promote
transparent scrutiny reviews.
12.To appoint time limited task and finish groups or working groups
led by Members, or
to establish one off scrutiny reviews where that is appropriate,
to undertake detailed
scrutiny work and to involve both Scrutiny and Non-Scrutiny
Members with the
relevant skills or background to assist with those
reviews.
13.To have the option to increase the size of the Committee
temporarily for specific in
depth reviews by drawing upon Member expertise with specific
interest and outside
specialists as appropriate.
14.To procure specialist information services designed to
supplement resources
ordinarily
available to the Committee using delegated budgetary
powers.
15.To consider proposals for change to the scrutiny process and
make associated
recommendations as required.
16.To present an Annual Report of the Committee’s work to
full Council.
17.To make recommendations to the Cabinet or Council as
appropriate. To refer
appropriate matters to the Corporate Governance and Audit
Committee for review.
18.To require partner authorities or external organisations to
‘have regard’ to a report
or recommendations as required.
Speaking at council and committee meetings