Issue - meetings

The committee received an oral update from the Democratic Services Manager.  There were on-going discussions between political Group Leaders on the committees so an update paper would be produced prior to the Annual Council Meeting.  Councillor Bick requested that this include the ability to appoint more than one alternate to regulatory committees-committee agreed this was reasonable.

Also, no constitutional changes were required following the elections.  Therefore recommendations (i)-(iii) were withdrawn.

Members of the Committee requested further information before agreeing to an arbitrary removal of recorded meetings after one year (recommendation v) and include the practice of engagement and recordings amongst the review of decision making and the Our Cambridge programme.

Resolved-

To recommend to Council that area committees continue to be held virtually.

To report back to a future Committee on Council meeting scheduling for February/March 2023.