Issue - items at meetings - Chairs Communications

41.1 The Chair Councillor Gill Mitchell said that an item on Health and Well-Being Boards was to be reported to 16 November Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee and OSC Members would receive a briefing note shortly.

41.2 Councillor Mitchell told the meeting the role of Councillor Disability Spokesperson had recently been agreed with the Disabled Workers Forum.  She reminded Members that this was a new position, created following the scrutiny panel on staff disabilities, and congratulated Councillor Stephanie Powell on her appointment.

41.3 Councillor Powell summarised the many activities and events she was  involved in and links with local organisations, aiming to provide a greater voice for disabled people in the city as a whole, not only Council employees. Members gave their own experiences of disabilities and the importance of disability issues.

32.1 The Chair Councillor Mitchell welcomed everyone to the meeting and mentioned the summary of the OSC workshop of the Corporate Plan that had been circulated to Members.

3.1 The national Good Scrutiny Award for the review of Adaptation for Climate Change, chaired by an independent expert was well deserved said the Chair Councillor Gill Mitchell. She had served on the panel with Councillors Tony Janio, and former Councillors Vicky Wakefield-Jarrett and David Watkins. It was also excellent news that the scrutiny team had been short-listed for Scrutiny Team of the Year.

3.2 On today’s agenda Councillor Mitchell explained that items 6 – 9 were now combined into one presentation that had been circulated as an addendum

3.3 Councillor Mitchell said that OSC would continue to work in an open, non-political way and aim to focus on ‘pre-decision’ rather than ‘post-delivery’ scrutiny. All Councillors could suggest a topic for review and the Commission would be looking forward to a positive and constructive challenge relationship with the Administration.

71.1 Councillor Mitchell thanked colleagues who had served on OSC during this electoral cycle. The Commission had scrutinised a wide range of topics working successfully within a new constitution and new council structure. Item 77 on the agenda gave a scrutiny update. On behalf of the Commission, Councillor Mitchell thanked the scrutiny team for their support.

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