Joint Overview and Scrutiny Committee Sample Clauses
The Joint Overview and Scrutiny Committee clause establishes a collaborative body composed of representatives from multiple organizations or authorities to oversee and review shared activities or policies. This committee typically examines joint initiatives, monitors performance, and makes recommendations for improvements, ensuring that all participating parties have input into oversight processes. Its core function is to promote transparency, accountability, and coordinated decision-making across the involved entities, addressing the need for unified governance in joint ventures or partnerships.
Joint Overview and Scrutiny Committee. The Councils shall establish the Joint Overview and Scrutiny Committee (JOSC) which:
(a) shall comprise eight Members from each Council (or such other number of Members as the Councils may from time to time agree, providing equal representation from each Council);
(b) shall be politically balanced for each Council in accordance with the provisions of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989;
(c) shall have the terms of reference set out in Part 3 of each Council’s Constitution and shall operate in accordance with the Joint Overview and Scrutiny Procedure Rules in Part 4 of the Constitution;
(d) shall exercise the overview and scrutiny functions of the two Councils in relation to all matters, except those to be determined by each Council’s Individual Executives as set out in schedule 1 to this Agreement;
(e) the Councils may each establish an Overview and Scrutiny Committee (OSC) to exercise the overview and scrutiny functions of the Councils in relation to matters reserved to each Council’s individual Executive as set out in schedule 1 to this agreement;
(f) one Member of Adur Consultative Forum shall be a co-opted non-voting Member of the Joint Overview and Scrutiny Committee for any item concerning the Housing Revenue Account, terms and conditions of tenancies or leaseholds, leasehold service charges and any other matter directly affecting housing tenants or leaseholders which do not have a general effect on other residents; the Member should not be the same Adur Consultative Forum representative who sits as a co-opted Member of JSC for the same purpose.
(g) shall not comprise any Members of the Executive within its membership. In making its appointments to the JOSC each Council will ensure that its Members are not Members of the Executive;
(h) In the event of an appointed Councillor being unable to attend, remotely or otherwise, any meeting of the JOSC, the relevant Member may appoint a Substitute Member to attend, provided that prior written notice of such substitution is given to the Director for Communities as the Proper Officer for such matters;
(i) The JOSC shall meet, remotely or otherwise, on at least four occasions in any municipal year.
(j) The JOSC shall meet in May to October of each municipal year at the Shoreham Centre and in November to April of each municipal year in Worthing Town Hall, or such other location, including by remote attendance, as the Chairman of the Committee shall agree;
(k) The Chairman and Vice Chairman of JOSC shall be...
Joint Overview and Scrutiny Committee. Each Party will nominate a member of their choice to sit upon the joint Overview and Scrutiny Committee. The Committee shall not be politically proportioned (provided all constituent authorities pass the necessary resolution at their Full Council meetings).