That is good.

However the bad thing about local election time, is that committee business tends to stop until the new batch of councillors are elected to fill them.

Your meeting will be very useful, if you can at least obtain agreement that the 'status quo' that has existed for the last 3 years, can continue until the relevant committee can be formed and meet, to establish a long-term solution to the problem presented by the officers, to sessions under the life of this current legislation.

If you can do that, given the slow rate that councils tend to move, Sheffield's sessions should be safe (until the new Act). If you can't, there will be nothing stopping the officers from preventing them all - for the same period. For by the time the elected members are back, I fear that it will then be too late.