A group designing how Bristol City Council will run after 2024 has denied it was a “mistake” to meet in private. Twelve councillors have been meeting regularly since the referendum in May, when Bristol voted to scrap the mayoral model and move to a committee-run council instead.
So far members of the public have not been allowed to attend the meetings of the committee model working group, nor see any minutes, so it’s unclear what debates are taking place behind the scenes. However, those debates could soon be made much more transparent.
How the new committee model will work has not yet been confirmed, and will likely have major impacts on how much power local people have over their communities. The working group faced questions on this from the overview and scrutiny management board, on Thursday, October 27.
