Committees
Sub Committees
Unlike Commissions, sub Committees of the Executive Board are formed of one elected member representative from each full member AGMA Authority.
Current AGMA Committees are:
Executive Board;
Scrutiny Panel;
Health Scrutiny Panel;
Joint Waste Committee;
Joint Minerals Planning; and
Statutory Functions Committee.
To view meeting papers from these committees use the calendar on the right.
2010-11 Nominations to Committees, Commissions and Outside Bodies can be viewed from the related documents section of this page.
Democratic accountability and scrutiny
AGMA’s governance arrangements are designed to ensure that they have a thread of democratic accountability running throughout them.
This is achieved by:
- requiring Executive Board members taking the decisions to be accountable for them within their own authority’s scrutiny arrangements;
- giving any of the ten ‘sovereign’ authorities the opportunity to raise issues at the sub regional level or question decisions taken at that level; and
- putting in place separate independent scrutiny arrangements for the sub regional governance function, carried out by elected members drawn from across the ten authorities.
The Protocol for scrutiny arrangements is set out in Schedule 4 of the Constitution. This essentially provides for an AGMA Scrutiny Pool consisting of local authority members. This has the power to call in non-urgent Executive Board decisions. At present the Scrutiny Pool meets two weeks after each Executive Board meeting.
Further information on AGMA’s Scrutiny arrangements can be found here.
