To submit for approval the minutes of the following meetings and consider recommendations made by the committee:

Audit Committee – 18 October 2022

Personnel Committee – 19 October 2022

Planning and Highways Committee – 20 October and 17 November 2022

Health and Wellbeing Board – 2 November 2022

Standards Committee – 3 November 2022

Constitutional and Nomination Committee – 30 November 2022 (to be tabled)

The minutes of the following meetings were submitted:

·                Audit – 18 October 2022

·                    Personnel Committee – 19 October 2022

·                Planning and Highways – 20 October and 17 November 2022

·                    Health and Wellbeing Board – 2 November 2022

·                    Standards Committee – 3 November 2022

The Council was asked to give particular consideration to the following recommendation from the minutes of the Standards Committee:

ST/22/24        To propose amendments to the arrangements for dealing with complaints against Members

The Council was asked to approve the Arrangements as amended and subject to the recommendation outlined in the minutes.

·                Constitutional and Nomination – 30 November 2022

The Council was asked to give particular consideration to, the following recommendations from the minutes of the Constitution and Nomination Committee:

CN/22/18       Establishment of a Greater Manchester Clean Air Joint Scrutiny Committee

The Council is requested to agree the appointment of Councillor Shilton-Godwin as the Council’s representative to the Joint Scrutiny Committee.       

CN/22/19       Appointments to Council Committees

The Council is requested to approve the following changes to the membership of Council Committees and other appointments:

To appoint Canon Susie Mapledoram as a Co-opted Member of the Children and Young People Scrutiny Committee (as the Representative of the Diocese of Manchester). This is a permanent appointment to a vacant post, from the date of the Council meeting (30 November 2022).

To appoint Councillor Iqbal to the post of Lead Member Post for Intergenerational Issues.

To remove Councillor Sadler as a Council representative from the Greater Manchester Combined Authority Overview and Scrutiny Committee.

CN/22/20       Constitution of the Council

To recommend Council to agree to the changes to the Council Constitution, set out below and detailed within the report and in the amended version of the Constitution submitted:

1.    Adopt, subject to recommendations 3 and 4 below, the revised Sections of the Constitution of the Council, namely:

a)        Part 1

b)        Part 2

c)         Part 3: Sections A, B, C and F

d)        Part 4: Sections A, B, E and F

e)        Part 5: Sections B, D (to be redesignated as C) and E (to be redesignated as D) and in doing so delete the former Section C

f)          Part 6: Sections D and F

g)        Part 7

h)        Part 8

(The Council considered the report on the Constitution of the Council – Minute Number CC/22/88 - below)

Decisions

1.               To receive those minutes submitted.

2.               To approve the arrangementsfor dealing with complaints against Members as amended and subject to the recommendations as detailed within the minutes.

3.           To agree the appointment of Councillor Shilton-Godwin as the Council’s representative to the Greater Manchester Clean Air Joint Scrutiny Committee

4.         To approve the changes in appointments to Committees of the Council, as detailed below.

5.            To appoint Canon Susie Mapledoram as a Co-opted Member of the Children and Young People Scrutiny Committee (as the Representative of the Diocese of Manchester). This is a permanent appointment to a vacant post, from the date of the Council meeting (30 November 2022).

6.            To appoint Councillor Iqbal to the post of Lead Member Post for Intergenerational Issues

7.            To remove Councillor Sadler as a Council representative from the Greater Manchester Combined Authority Overview and Scrutiny Committee.