Decision Maker: Cabinet

Outcome: Recommendations Approved

Is Key Decision?: No

Is Callable In?: No

Date of Decision: September 11, 2025

Purpose:

Content: RESOLVED that Cabinet recommended to Council that Council:   A    Endorse the vision and purpose for Harlow’s new constitution (Appendix A to the report).   B    Endorse Appendix B to the report (Introduction, Table of Contents and Glossary) and Appendix C to the report (Our Council, Citizens and the Constitution) as approved emerging drafts.   C    Adopt Appendix D to the report (How Decision Making Works), Appendix E to the report (The Executive) and Appendix F to the report (Officers) in place of the parts of the current constitution that deal with those matters, to come into force with immediate effect.   D    Delegate to the Monitoring Officer authority to resolve any operational disparity that may arise between Appendices D, E and F to the report and other parts of the current constitution, any such conflicts to be resolved in favour of the approach set out in Appendices D, E and F.   E     Note that further draft sections of the new constitution (which may necessitate refinements to the sections approved or adopted here) will be presented to subsequent Cabinet and Council meetings with the intention that the new constitution, as a whole, is adopted at December Council.