| 1 | TO APPROVE THE RECORD OF THE FOLLOWING MEETING: |
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| 2 | TO RECEIVE APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE |
| 3 | URGENT MATTERS BY REASON OF SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES |
| | | The Chairman will announce any late items which do not appear on the main agenda but which he has agreed should be considered by reason of special circumstances to be specified in the reports. |
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| 4 | DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST |
| | | | (a) | Personal interests under the Medway Code of Conduct
A Councillor who declares a personal interest in a matter, including the nature of the interest, may stay, speak and vote on the matter.
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| | (b) | Prejudicial interests under the Medway Code of Conduct
A Councillor who declares a personal and prejudicial interest in a matter, including the nature of the interest, must withdraw from the room and take no part in the debate or vote on the matter.
Councillors who have declared a personal and prejudicial interest may make representations, answer questions and give evidence before leaving the room but only if members of the public are allowed to attend for the same purpose.
If an interest is not declared at the outset of the meeting, it should be disclosed as soon as the interest becomes apparent.
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| | (c) | Whipping - the Council's constitution also requires any Member of the Committee who is subject to a party whip (i.e. agreeing to vote in line with the majority view of a private party group meeting) to declare the existence of the whip and the nature of it before the item is discussed. |
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| 5 | TO CONSIDER REPORTS AS FOLLOWS: |
| | (A) | Attendance by the Leader of the Council (Holding the executive to account) |
| | | The Leader, Councillor Rodney Chambers will attend the meeting to give account of his performance against the Council's targets in his portfolio relvent to democracy and governance.
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| | > Leader (pdf file 100.6kb) |
| | (B) | Work Programme |
| | | Members are asked if they wish to make changes to the work programme and to note the acivity across all Overview and Scrutiny Committees over the last cycle and for the next cycle.
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| | > Appendix 1 Work programme shcedule (pdf file 104.8kb) |
| | > Appendix 2 (pdf file 100.9kb) |
| | > Appendix 3 Forward Plan (pdf file 79.4kb) |
| | > Work programme (pdf file 97.3kb) |
| | (C) | Monthly review of the Council's Corporate Business Risk Register |
| | | This report deals with the 6 monthly review of the Council's Corporate Business Risk Register prior to consideration at Cabinet.
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| | > APPENDIX A - Corporate risk register - record of amendments Feb09 (pdf file 214.6kb) |
| | > APPENDIX B - Risk Matrix - Feb 09 (pdf file 109.9kb) |
| | > APPENDIX C -Corporate Risk Register - Feb 09 (pdf file 643.7kb) |
| | > APPENDIX D - Monitoring & Escalation of Risk (pdf file 58.9kb) |
| | > Risk Register Covering Report (pdf file 106.2kb) |
| | (D) | Local Area Agreement 2008 - 2011 (LAA2) annual review and refresh |
| | | This report seeks to inform Members of the Business Support Overview and Scrutiny Committee of the progress towards reporting performance against Medway's Local Area Agreement (LAA) and re-freshing the LAA.
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| | > Appendix 1 Current Medway LAA Approved 2008 (pdf file 375.5kb) |
| | > Appendix 2 LAA Data Tables Annual Performance Report Submitted to GOSE November 2008 (pdf file 414.5kb) |
| | > LAA Refresh Report 10 March 2009 (2) (pdf file 246.1kb) |