Extraordinary meetings
3.1 Calling extraordinary meetings
The persons listed below may request the Chief Executive to call Council meetings in addition to ordinary meetings:
i) the Council by resolution;
ii) the Chair, or, in his/her absence,
iii) the Vice-Chair; the Council’s Monitoring Officer; and
iv) any five Elected Members of the Council if they have signed a requisition (in the form as that reproduced in Appendix 1) presented to the Chair of the Council and she/he has refused to call a meeting or has failed to call a meeting within seven days of the presentation of the requisition.
At other times the Chief Executive may call a meeting of Full Council whenever they consider it necessary and/or appropriate to do so.
3.2
Any request or requisition for an Extraordinary Meeting of the Council shall specify the reason for the calling of the meeting and give notice of a motion/motions to be debated (unless the purpose is to receive reports or adoption of recommendations of Committees or Officers or any resolutions following from them). The purpose of an Extraordinary Meeting is to enable business to be transacted, or a matter to be debated, that is urgent and cannot wait until the next ordinary Full Council meeting. A protocol in relation to extraordinary meetings is attached at Appendix 2.
3.3 Business
No item of business may be conducted at an extraordinary meeting of Full Council other than that specified in the resolution, request or requisition which led to the meeting being.