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The Council
resolved:-
(i)            
to agree to implement option 5 as per Appendix A (7
minutes to move, 4 minutes to second, 3 minutes to speak in debate
and 4 minutes to sum up) to be applied to Council and all
committees and sub-committees of the Council and amend Standing
Order 16.1 to reference 3 minutes in line with Councillors speaking
in debate;
(ii)          
to agree to implement option 11: Draft motion to be
submitted at the same time as the written request, and finalised on
the first working day thereafter and circulated to Council by 4pm
that day. Draft amendments to be submitted on or before the second
working day before  the meeting and
circulated by 4pm on the working day before the meeting;
(iii)         
to instruct the Chief Officer - Governance to
make:
(i) any amendments to the Standing
Orders which are necessary to implement the determination made
under (ii) above, and
(ii) any
amendments to other Scheme of Governance documents which are
necessary to reflect the Standing Orders as so amended;
(iv)         
to delegate power to the Chief Officer - Governance
to, following consultation with the Co-Leaders, bring the Standing
Orders (and any other Scheme of Governance documents) as so amended
into force on 9 July 2025; and instruct that Chief Officer to
thereafter circulate the relevant documents (with tracked changes)
to all members of Council for information;
(v)          
to approve that, with effect from 3 July 2025, the
Terms of Reference be amended by deletion of:
(i) “to approve annual
procurement workplans, reflecting the LOIP, the Population Needs
Assessment, the Council’s commissioning intentions, the
Council’s service standards, the views of customers and
citizens, and the best evidence of effective interventions to
ensure a preventative focus on demand reduction”;
and
(ii)
“to receive an annual procurement performance report to
enable scrutiny of performance”;
from the Aberdeen City Council section of that document and
addition of that wording to the Finance and Resources Committee
section thereof;
to
instruct the Chief Officer - Governance to make any other
amendments to Scheme of Governance documents which are necessary to
reflect the said amendments to the Terms of Reference and delegate
power to that Chief Officer to, following consultation with the
Co-Leaders, bring such other amendments into force as soon as
practicable; and instructs that Chief Officer to thereafter
circulate the relevant documents (with tracked changes) to all
members of Council for information;
(vi)         
for the reasons set out in the “Scheme of
Governance Reviews” section of the report, agree that no
further reviews of the Standing Orders and Terms of Reference shall
take place before the next local government elections in 2027,
subject of course to exercise of the Chief Officer -
Governance’s existing delegated powers (under the Scheme of
Governance) to amend the Council’s Scheme of Governance
documentation and subject also to that Chief Officer concluding
that an earlier review is necessary;
(vii)       
to instruct the Chief Officer - Governance, to give
consideration to the two Audit Scotland recommendations noted in
paragraph 3.13 and to provide a service update to Council by
December 2025; and
(viii)      
to note that the interim Chief Officer - Governance
has reviewed the revised CIPFA guidance for local authorities on
their Local Code of Governance; and agrees that no further changes
are required to the Council’s Local Code to give effect to
this guidance at this time.