Meeting Details

(5 minutes allocated)

To consider a report of Council Business Management Committee

The Leader to move the following Motion:

That Council approves the changes to the City Council's Constitution and Standing Orders as set out in paragraph 2 of the report and authorises the City Solicitor to implement the changes with immediate effect.

(5 minutes allocated)

To consider a report of the Leader and the Chief Executive

The Leader to move the following Motion:


This City Council:

1.     Notes the progress made in establishing the West Midlands Combined Authority and the remainder of the relevant process to be followed;

2.     Notes the Draft Constitution of the Combined Authority (Appendix 5);

3.     Gives consent to the presentation to Parliament of the statutory Order that will create the West Midlands Combined Authority (draft attached to this report at Appendix 4);

4.     Delegates to the Chief Executive, in consultation with the Leader of the Council the power to agree with Government any further drafting amendments to the Order that may prove necessary.

(10 minutes allocated)

To consider a report of the Leader and the Chief Executive

The Leader to move the following Motion:






The Council notes: 

• The historic West Midlands devolution agreement signed on 17 November 2015 and that this is the start of a process of devolution with the potential for significant further steps.
  
  
• That the subsequent work on a clarification process and due diligence has been satisfactorily completed.

This Council endorses the West Midlands Combined Authority Devolution Agreement, including the creation of an Elected Mayor.

This Council:

• Instructs the Leader of the Council and the Chief Executive to take any further decisions necessary to bring about the implementation of the Agreement, working with the other members of the Shadow Combined Authority Board, the Government and local partners.
  
  
• Authorises the Chief Executive, in consultation with the Leader of the Council to give consent to the presentation of a Mayoral Order to Parliament.

(4 hours allocated)

At this stage in the Council meeting, the following procedural Motion will be moved:-

"That, pursuant to a Council Business Management discussion, Standing Orders be waived to allocate up to 4 hours for the whole debate on the Council Business Plan and Budget 2016+ report, permit the Leader of the City Council to make a speech of up to 45 minutes, permit the other Group Leaders to make a speech of up to 30 minutes each, permit all other speakers in the debate to speak for up to 5 minutes, permit the Leader of the City Council to reply to the debate without time limit, and agree that amendments to the Motions should be taken in the order that the amendments were notified to the Lord Mayor"

(A 10 minute break will be taken during the debate.)

The Leader to move the Motions set out in the document at Pages 277-279.


Members must, in reaching their decision on the Budget Motions, have full regard to the results of the consultation, as set out in Part Four, and the analysis of equalities considerations, as set out in Part Three and Appendix 1 of the Business Plan and Budget 2016+.