Meeting Details

Meeting Summary
Sustainability and Transport Overview and Scrutiny Committee
14 Jun 2023 - 14:00 to 14:35
Occurred
Committee Room 2
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  • Attendance
  • Visitors
  • Declarations of Interests
  • Webcast

Documents

Agenda

Public Agenda
1 Notice of Recording/Webcast

The Chair to advise/meeting to note that this meeting will be webcast for live or subsequent broadcast via the Council's Public-I microsite (please click this link) and that members of the press/public may record and take photographs except where there are confidential or exempt items.

 

 

2 Apologies
To receive any apologies.
3 Declarations of Interests

Members are reminded they must declare all relevant  pecuniary and other registerable interests arising from any business to be discussed at this meeting.

 

If a disclosable pecuniary interest is declared a Member must not participate in any discussion or vote on the matter and must not remain in the room unless they have been granted a dispensation.

 

If other registerable interests are declared a Member may speak on the matter only if members of the public are allowed to speak at the meeting but otherwise must not take part in any discussion or vote on the matter and must not remain in the room unless they have been granted a dispensation.    

 

If it is a ‘sensitive interest’, Members do not have to disclose the nature of the interest, just that they have an interest.

 

Information on the Local Government Association’s Model Councillor Code of Conduct is set out via http://bit.ly/3WtGQnN. This includes, at Appendix 1, an interests flowchart which provides a simple guide to declaring interests at meetings.  

 

 

4 Membership of Sustainability and Transport Overview and Scrutiny Committee

To note the resolution of the City Council meeting appointing the Committee, Chair and Members to serve on the Committee for the period ending with the Annual Meeting of City Council in 2024.

Labour (5):-

 

Councillors Lee Marsham (Chair), Saima Ahmed, David Barker, Martin Brooks and Waseem Zaffar

Conservative (2):-

 

Councillors Timothy Huxtable and Richard Parkin

Liberal Democrat:-

 

Councillor Colin Green

5 Election of Deputy Chair (14:05 - 14:10)
To elect a Deputy Chair, for the purposes of substitution for the Chair, if absent, for the period ending with the Annual Meeting of the City Council in 2024.
 
6 Sustainability and Transport O&S Committee Terms of Reference (14:10 – 14:15)
To note the Terms of Reference for the Sustainability and Transport Overview and Scrutiny Committee.
7 Minutes
To confirm the minutes from the meetings held on 19th April and 18th May 2023.
8 Sustainability and Transport Overview and Scrutiny Committee Action Tracker
To review and note the actions from the previous Sustainability and Transport Overview and Scrutiny Committee meeting. 
9 Delivering Effective and Flexible Scrutiny (14:20 – 14:40)
To consider how the Sustainability and Transport Overview and Scrutiny Committee will develop a flexible and effective work programme for 2023/24.
10 Developing the Sustainability & Transport Overview and Scrutiny Committee Scrutiny Work Programme 2023/24 (14:40 - 15:55)
To consider the issues for the 2023/24 work programme including Cabinet Member Priorities and forthcoming decisions, issues recommended to be carried forwards from 2022/23, information from the City Observatory; Programmes, Performance and Improvement Division to agree potential issues for the Scrutiny Work Programme and Scrutiny methods.
11 Request(s) for Call In/Councillor Call for Action/Petitions Received (if any)
To consider any request for call in/councillor call for action/petitions (if received). 
12 Schedule of Meeting dates for Committee Meeting an Scrutiny Work

(A)  The scheduled dates for 2023 to 2024 are as follows:-

 

2023 2024

 

12 July 17 January

20 September 14 February

18 October 13  March

15 November 17 April

13 December

 

(B)   The Committee is also requested to Approve Wednesdays at 1400 hours as a suitable day and time each week for any additional meetings required to consider 'requests for call in' which may be lodged in respect of Executive decisions.

13 Other Urgent Business
To consider any items of business by reason of special circumstances (to be specified) that in the opinion of the Chair are matters of urgency.
14 Authority to Chair and Officers
Chair to move:-

'In an urgent situation between meetings, the Chair jointly with the relevant Chief Officer has authority to act on behalf of the Committee'.

Attendance

Attended - Other Members
Name
No other member attendance information has been recorded for the meeting.
Apologies
NameReason for Sending Apology
Councillor Martin Brooks 
Absent
NameReason for Absence
No absentee information has been recorded for the meeting.

Declarations of Interests

Member NameItem Ref.DetailsNature of DeclarationAction
Councillor Timothy Huxtable Member of the Transport Delivery Cttee, WMCAOtherNoted
Councillor Timothy Huxtable Lead Member for Rail and Metro - Transport Delivery Cttee, WMCAOthernoted
Councillor Timothy Huxtable Substiiute Member for Andy Street, West Midland Mayor on W Mids Bus AllanceOthernoted
Councillor Timothy Huxtable Shadow Cabinet Member for Transport BCCOthernoted
Councillor Waseem Zaffar Involved in some work on Air Quality in a professional capacityOthernoted

Visitors

Also in attendance at the above meeting were:

  • Philip Edwards, Assistant Director, Transport & Connectivity
  • Mark Shelswell, Assistant Director, Highways & Infrastructure
  • Ellie Horwitch-Smith, Assistant Director, Route to Zero Carbon
  • Paul Clarke, Assistant Director, Programmes, Performance and Improvement
  • Richard Smith, Head of Insight, Policy & Strategy
  • Tracey Murray, Improvement and Change Partner, Finance & Governance



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