Agenda item

(a)       To confirm the dates for the ordinary meetings of the Council for the Municipal Year 2016/17, all commencing at 10.30am.

(b)       To agree that the next Annual Meeting of the Council be held on Friday, 19^th May 2017.

(c)       To confirm the dates for the remaining meetings shown in the Council calendar for 2016/17.

Moved by Councillor Sir Steve Houghton CBE – Seconded by Councillor Andrews BEM; and

RESOLVED:-

(i)        that ordinary meetings of the Council for the Municipal Year 2016/17 be held on the following Thursdays commencing at 10.30 a.m.:-

            Thursday 26^th May, 2016

Thursday 28^th July, 2016

                        Thursday 29^th September, 2016 (including Accounts)

                        Thursday 1^st December, 2016

            Thursday 2^nd February, 2017 (including HRA)

            Thursday 23^rd February, 2017  (Budget meeting)

            Thursday 2^nd March, 2017  (provisional Budget meeting to be cancelled if budget approved on 23^rd February, 2016)

            Thursday 30^th March, 2017.

(ii)       that the next Annual Meeting of the Council be held on Friday, 19^th May 2017 at 6.00 p.m., and

(iii)      that the report of the Director of Legal and Governance seeking to confirm the dates for the remaining meetings shown in the Council Calendar for 2016/17, as now submitted, be adopted subject to the date shown for the Safeguarding Scrutiny Committee being utilised for meetings of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee.