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Agenda item

Appointment and Allocation of Seats on Committees for the 2020/21 Municipal Year (C3930)

To consider the appointment and allocation of seats on Committees for the next Municipal Year in accordance with the duty under Section 15 of the Local Government Housing Act 1989.

To agree the Council’s Policy Framework for 2020/21.

Minutes:

The Council considered a report (Agenda Item 8) concerning the appointment and allocation of seats on Committees for the next Municipal Year and sought to agree the Council’s Policy Framework for 2020/21 as set out in paragraph 6.1 of the Supporting information.

MOTION: Proposed by Councillor Lynne Doherty and seconded by Councillor Lee Dillon:

That the Council

 

1.            “notes that under Paragraph 8 of the Local Government (Committees and Political Groups) Regulations 1990, notice has been received that the Members set out in paragraph 1.1 of  the Supporting Information are to be regarded as Members of the Conservative,  Liberal Democrat and Green Party Groups respectively.

 

2.            agrees to the appointment of the various Committees and to the number of places on each as set out in paragraph 2.2 of the Supporting Information. (Table A) .

 

3.            agrees to the allocation of seats to the Political Groups in accordance with section 15(5) of the Local Government Act 1989 as set out in paragraph 3.3 of the Supporting Information.  (Table B)

 

4.            agrees that the number of substitutes on Committees and Commissions be as set out in paragraph 4.1 of the Supporting Information (Table C).

 

5.            agrees that in respect of the District and Area Planning Committees, the substitute Members are all drawn from Members representing wards within the Committee’s area who are not appointed to the Committee.  Where substitutes attend the District Planning meeting they need to be drawn from the same Area Planning meeting as the Member they are substituting for.

 

6.            the appointment of Members to the Committees as set out in Appendix A and notes the appointments set out in Appendix B which are in accordance with the wishes of the Political Groups.

 

7.            in accordance with Regulation 4, Schedule 3 of the Local Authorities (Functions and Responsibilities) (England) Regulations 2000 as amended, agrees that the Council’s Policy Framework for 2020/21 be as set out in paragraph 6.1 of the Supporting Information and that any appropriate amendments be made to the Council’s Constitution (Paragraph 2.5.2) should this be necessary.

 

8.            in accordance with Regulation 5, Schedule 4 of the Local Authorities (Functions and Responsibilities) (England) Regulations 2000, approves that all other plans, policies and strategies requiring approval and not included in the approved Policy Framework be delegated to the Council’s Executive.

9.            notes that Paragraph 2.6.5 of Article 6, setting out the Executive Portfolios, will be amended to reflect any changes made by the Leader of the Council at the Annual Council meeting.

 

10.         agrees to the appointment of two non-voting co-opted Parish/Town Councillors be made to the Governance and Ethics Committee namely: Barry Dickens and Jane Langford. That Lourdes Cottam and Roger Hunneman be appointed as substitute non-voting co-opted Parish/Town Councillors to the Governance and Ethics Committee.

 

11.         Agrees to re-appoint three Independent Persons namely Lindsey Appleton, James Rees and Mike Wall.

 

12.         notes the membership of the Health and Wellbeing Board as set out in Appendix A.

 

13.         delegates authority to the Monitoring Officer to make any changes required to the Constitution as a result of the changes to the number of Members of the Council and following the appointments to Committees.”

 

Councillor Doherty in introducing the annual report noted that both Table A and B in the report needed to be amended to reflect that eleven Members would be appointed to the District Planning Committee and not nine. Councillor Doherty also noted that in Appendix A Councillor James Cole should be the Council’s appointed representative on the Joint Public Protection Committee and that Councillor Graham Bridgman should be the substitute.

 

Councillor Lee Dillon commented that he was happy to second the report. He would however like to comment that on the makeup of the Public Protection Partnership Committee. He noted that all the Members appointed to it, from West Berkshire, Bracknell Forest and Wokingham Borough Council, were Conservative Members and he hoped that the Constitution could be revisited to allow some opposition members to be appointed to it

 

The Motion was put to the meeting and duly RESOLVED.

 

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