Meeting Details

Lord Mayor to advise 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.

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.  

To confirm and authorise the signing of the Minutes of the meeting of the Council held on 16 April 2024.

To receive the annual report of the Lord Mayor.

Lord Mayor will announce Awards.

Presentation to Honorary Aldermen to be made by the Lord Mayor. 

To elect the Lord Mayor.

NB. A short break will follow to allow for the robing of the Lord Mayor.

To present the retiring Lord Mayor with an ex-Lord Mayoral Badge. 

To present the retiring Lord Mayor's Consort with a badge as a memento of office

A vote of thanks to the retiring Lord Mayor and Lord Mayor's Consort will be made.

To appoint the Deputy Lord Mayor.

NB. A short break will follow to allow for guests to retire.

To agree the allowances to be made to the Lord Mayor and the Deputy Lord Mayor in office during 2024/25.

To determine the dates of the meetings of Council to be held during the year ending with the next Annual Meeting of the Council.

It is suggested that meetings of the Council be held in the Council Chamber at 1400 hours on the following Tuesdays :-

To confirm the date for the holding of the Annual Meeting of the Council in 2025.

It is recommended that the Annual Meeting for 2025 be held in the Council Chamber at 1600 hours on Tuesday 20 May 2025.

To receive the Lord Mayor's announcements and such communications as the Lord Mayor may wish to place before the Council.

To receive and deal with petitions in accordance with Council Rules of Procedure (B4.4 E of the Constitution)

As agreed by Council Business Management Committee a schedule of outstanding petitions is available electronically with the published papers for the meeting and can be viewed or downloaded.

For the Council to note the attached comments on the agenda.

The Leader will make his announcement.

Councillor John Cotton to move the following recommendation:

"That City Council notes that Jamie Christopher Scott (LAB) has been confirmed as the elected member for the Bournbrook and Selly Park ward following the completion of the by election held on 2 May 2024".

Councillor John Cotton to move the following recommendations:

"1. To note the work of the Member Constitutional Working Group in reviewing the Constitution.

2. That approval be given to the proposed revisions to Parts A, B, C and E of the Constitution, as detailed in Appendices 1, 2 and 3 and summarised in paragraph 6 below.

3. To note that a comprehensive review of the Constitution will be conducted following Annual Council on 21 May 2024 as part of the Governance and Relationships Programme in the Improvement and Recovery Plan.

4. To note that the Standards Committee are consulting on a new Member/Officer Relations Protocol, as part of the response to the Independent Governance Review carried out by the Centre for Governance and Scrutiny during 2023. This will be the subject of a separate Report to Full Council in June 2024.

5. To note that the Interim City Solicitor, in consultation with the Leader of the Council, has been authorised (by Council Business Management Committee on 7 May 2024) to commence a recruitment process to appoint an independent person to chair the Audit Committee. The final appointment, by a cross party member Panel, is subject to Full Council approving the proposed amendment to section B14 paragraph 14.6 - The Chair of Audit Committee will be an Independent person."

To consider a report of the Council Business Management Committee.

Councillor John Cotton to move the following recommendation:

“That the City Council makes appointments to Committees and Other Bodies as set out in the Appendix to the report.”

Please note that Appendix 2 of the report is to follow. This will be circulated and published in advance of the meeting.