Agenda item

Rreport of the Town Clerk (TO FOLLOW).

The Committee considered a report of the Town Clerk outlining the current membership of the Committee and seeking views on the Committee’s composition moving forward.

Members discussed the implications of any change, with a range of views expressed as to the Committee’s current composition and effectiveness.

The addition of the City Bridge Trust Chairman as an ex-officio Member was particularly debated, with some Members arguing that the increasing strategic role and profile of the Trust’s work provided a sound rationale for the change. However, a number of Members expressed concern that any such change could potentially risk clouding the separation that existed between the role of the City Bridge Trust and Bridge House Estates and the rest of the City Corporation’s activities.

Ultimately, Members were minded that it would not be desirable to make any changes to the Committee at this point in time, including the potential addition of the Chairman of The City Bridge Trust Committee as an ex-officio Member. Two Members, Tijs Broeke and Deputy Edward Lord, asked that their dissent be recorded in relation to the decision not to extend ex-officio Membership to the Chairman of The City Bridge Trust Committee.

RESOLVED: That no changed be made to the current composition of the Policy and Resources Committee.