The following amended recommendations proposed by Councillor Heathcoat were agreed:
To:
(a) Request the Task Group to explore further the idea of establishing Area Committees with budgets addressing how they relate to City and District Councils;
(b) And to give consideration to how we can better improve the work of locality groups;
(c) Request the Chairmen of Scrutiny Committees to ensure that time is allowed in their work programmes to discuss policy development matters;
(d) Request facilities management to draw up plans to reformat the rooms on the members’ corridor to provide some shared members’ facilities in place of political group rooms; and
(e) Request that the Task Group come back to Cabinet on the implementation of these changes.