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RECOMMENDED:        1)            That the updated criteria proposed by the Corporate Performance Panel, subject to the additional changes shown in appendix 3 to the report, be adopted.

2)               That the changes to the Constitution shown in appendix 4 of the report be approved.

Reason for Recommendation

The award of Freedom of the Borough is a non-executive function of the Council (Functions Regulations 2000, Schedule 1 paragraph E3). Constitutional Changes are needed in order to effect the amendments to the criteria and process for the award/revocation.

Full Council asked the CPP to review the award criteria; the Council’s legal team have reviewed those criteria and provided comments and proposed constitutional changes. 

Cabinet are invited to review the updated criteria and the constitutional changes and recommend to Full Council that they be approved.

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The Democratic Services Manager introduced a report on the review of the criteria for awarding the Freedom of the Borough which were last reviewed and agreed by Council in 2002.  Following the referral of a Notice of Motion from Cllr J Rust on the criteria, Council referred the Motion to the Corporate Performance Panel  to consider.  The Panel formed an Informal Working Group to consider the matter which reported back to the Panel.  The Panel had recommended changes to the criteria to be used for consideration, recommended the removal of the 10 year timeframe as to when a Councillor ceased to be so before being able to be awarded the honour, and also that applications should be considered by the Standards Committee before recommendations were made to Council. 

Cabinet expressed the view that the removal of the 10 year limit was appropriate, and agreed that the Standards Committee was the right body to deal with nominations in the first instance.

RECOMMENDED:    1)            That the updated criteria proposed by the Corporate Performance Panel, subject to the additional changes shown in appendix 3 to the report, be adopted.

2)              That the changes to the Constitution shown in appendix 4 of the report be approved.

Reason for Recommendation

The award of Freedom of the Borough is a non-executive function of the Council (Functions Regulations 2000, Schedule 1 paragraph E3). Constitutional Changes are needed in order to effect the amendments to the criteria and process for the award/revocation.

Full Council asked the CPP to review the award criteria; the Council’s legal team have reviewed those criteria and provided comments and proposed constitutional changes. 

Cabinet are invited to review the updated criteria and the constitutional changes and recommend to Full Council that they be approved.