Council committees are to continue looking at the work of staff during the coronavirus crisis.
At Powys Council's health and care scrutiny committee on Wednesday, June 10, councillors discussed getting back to a more “normal” type of meeting, with a broader agenda and time to get to the nitty-gritty of council business.
At present, scrutiny meetings are supposed to be kept to an hour, with agendas kept to work being done during the pandemic, but councillors have now started querying whether they could begin looking at wider council business in greater depth.
Councillor Roger Williams said: “We would need a work programme set out to make sure we are looking at the most vital and important aspects of the services.
“We have to be thinking of recovery and not just looking at business critical aspects."
Head of legal and democratic services Clive Pinney said: “I totally accept what’s being said.
“But at this moment in time we are only having scrutiny about business critical activities and other priority issues.
“Hopefully we will come back to normality, but we’re not there yet.”
Director of social services Ali Bulman, added that the council's services were still working in “business continuity” mode.
Since meetings were moved online, only the council's planning committee and full council have not been held.
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