Issue - meetings

The action sheet arising from the meeting of the Regeneration Scrutiny Committee held on 23^rd September, 2019 was submitted, whereupon:-

Blaenau Gwent Consumer Brochure

A Member expressed concern that the Chair had ‘signed off’ the brochure, as Members requested that a draft copy of the brochure be brought back to Committee for consideration. 

The Chair said at the last meeting Members requested sight of the brochure, and he had ‘signed off’ the draft brochure for circulation to Members for comments. 

The Corporate Director of Regeneration & Community Services confirmed that in the Executive Member Briefing referred to, the Chair had ‘signed off’ the document for circulation to Members for comments.

A brief discussion ensued when the Enterprise Facilitation Officer said the document had been considered by DMT and very positive feedback had been received.  A number of changes were proposed and these would be incorporated into the final document.  Members feedback had also been noted from previous discussions, and work had been done with the Communications Section around the design to ensure it was in-keeping with corporate branding.  The Officer said he was pleased with the overall result.

A Member said he was very disappointed with the brochure and felt it was repetitive of previous publications. 

The Chair offered to meet with Members outside of the Committee to discuss the brochure.  He said this had been ongoing for some time, but hopefully would be ready for publication by January 2020. 

Forward Work Programme 2019-20 (Leisure Services Review)

A Member referred to the request for future reports on the Leisure Services Review to be considered by a Joint Scrutiny Committee and asked whether this had been discussed with the Head of Democratic Services.

In response the Scrutiny Officer said the issue had been raised, and explained that the only constitutional Joint Committees was Safeguarding and Budget Monitoring.  However, it was possible to convene Joint Committees to consider other, but voting rights would be restricted to the host Scrutiny Committee.

The Member asked the Scrutiny Officer to look into this, as he believed that at the two Joint Committees convened to consider the Leisure Services Review, all Members had voting rights.

The Committee AGREED, subject to the foregoing, that the action sheet be noted.