The Combined Authority is
chaired by the Regional Mayor, Tim Bowles, and is made up of the
leaders and Mayor from the three councils in the region –
Bath & North East Somerset (Leader, Cllr Dine Romero), Bristol
City Council (Mayor Marvin Rees) and South Gloucestershire Council
(Leader, Cllr Toby Savage). The Chair of the West of England Local
Enterprise Partnership (LEP), Professor Steve West, also attends
committee meetings.
Please note –
from January 2020 onwards, the WECA Committee usually
meets jointly with the West of England Joint Committee – this
joint meeting is the main WECA member decision-taking
meeting. Prior to January 2020, the
WECA Committee and the Joint Committee met separately on the same
day. To streamline arrangements and to
enable more efficient meetings, Mayors and Leaders agreed in
January 2020 that the WECA Committee and the Joint Committee should
in future meet together at a joint
meeting. This enables, for example, all
reports to be published as one, unified agenda and means that one
public forum session can take place near the start of the
meeting. The two committees are
separate bodies in legal terms but now meet
together.
For agenda
papers from January 2020 onwards, please refer to papers listed
under: Joint meeting – West of England Combined Authority
Committee and West of England Joint Committee