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Brexit Impact Assessment |
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Motion by Councillors M Williamson and S Donaldson |
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Council instructs the Chief Executive to commission an impact assessment which will report on the likely impact of Brexit, either hard or with agreement of the EU, on Perth and Kinross communities and enterprise and submit this to the next full Council meeting. |
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Committee Structure |
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Motion by Councillors X McDade and R Brock |
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Overview |
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To merge the Housing & Communities Committee and Environment & Infrastructure Committee |
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Following the successful merger of the former Housing & Community Safety and the former Environment Service into the new Housing and Environment Service, it seems appropriate to now realign the service committee remits in line with the new service responsibilities and have a single Housing & Environment Committee. |
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The merger of these committees would save senior officer time in attending committees as well as bringing committee remits into line with current service responsibilities. |
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Proposed Changes to Remits & Membership |
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The remit for the new Housing & Environment Committee would be in line with the responsibilities of the new Housing & Environment Service. |
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Responsibilities that have been transferred to the Education & Children's Service since the council reorganisation in April 2018 would be transferred to the remit of the Lifelong Learning Committee. |
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Other matters that are currently within the remit of either Housing & Communities Committee or the Environment & Infrastructure Committee, but where the main responsibility for that remit lies with either Corporate & Democratic Services or the Health & Social Care Partnership the remit would be included in the remit of the Strategic Policy & Resources Committee. |
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To provide membership parity across all service committees there would be 15 members of both the new Housing & Environment Committee and of the Lifelong Learning Committee. The membership of the Strategic Policy & Resources Committee would remain the same. |
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Conclusion |
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The motion asks that the Council approve the proposal outlined above and asks officers to update the Scheme of Administration accordingly. |