Agenda and minutes

In accordance with the provisions of the Code of conduct adopted by the City and County of Swansea, no interests were declared

To approve and sign as a correct record the minutes of the previous meeting.

RESOLVED that the minutes of the meeting held on 14 October 2015 be agreed as a correct record.

NOTE: Councillor T J Hennegan reported that Councillor P Lloyd Champion for Disabled People, himself and two other Councillors had attended the recent successful “Walk In my Shoes” event held in the City Centre

Councillor C E Lloyd attended the CAC and gave a verbal update on his work relating to his role as Member Champion for Councillor Support & Development.

He detailed his current and developing links with the Head of Democratic Services and the Chair of Democratic Services Committee which will continue to examine issues including Councillor Annual Reports, Councillor Training Programme, Sustainable Swansea Budget Review Process, Further/Expansion use of IT for Councillors and Responses to Government White Papers.

The Chair thanked Councillor Lloyd for his attendance and update.

Councillor C E Lloyd outlined the following areas that he would like the CAC to review and examine in the coming months, with a view to bringing back a recommendation that he could consider.

The three topic areas were:

·       Woman Adding Value to the Economy.

·       Invest to Save Grants.

·       Creating an Internal Agency Resource.

The CAC discussed the background issues relating to each topic area.

RESOLVED that the CAC add the 3 topic areas shown above to their work programme.

The Chair reported that this item had been deferred to the December Meeting.

The current work programme with the addition of the 3 items agreed above be noted.

RESOLVED that

1) a presentation/report be added to the agenda for the December meeting on Invest to Save Grants.

2) a presentation/report be added to the agenda for the January meeting for both Creating an Internal Agency Resource and Woman Adding Value to the Economy.