Issue - meetings

To consider the report of the Director of Strategy and Resources (copy to follow).

The Council considered the report of the Director of Strategy and Resources, circulated prior to the meeting, seeking Members’ agreement to appoint Members to serve on Working Groups of the Council for the municipal year, as set out in Appendix 1 to the report. The report highlighted that two Working Groups had been added to the list and three deleted.

The Chairperson referred to the Motion submitted by Councillor J C Stilts and duly seconded by Councillor P L Spenceley, deferred from an earlier point on the agenda, and asked Councillor Stilts to present her Motion.

Councillor Stilts moved the following:

That Council resolves to agree that the Finance Member Group is constituted of ten Members of the Council and that it will be politically balanced. That substitution can be made from any member of their group.

The working group will consist of

·                Leader of the council or Deputy

·                Leaders of political groups or Deputies

·                Chair of Strategy and Resources Committee

·                Vice Chair of Strategy and Resources Committee

·                Chair of Performance, Governance and Audit Committee

·                Vice Chair of Performance, Governance and Audit Committee

·                Up to 4 members of the council (dependent on the number of group leaders) to ensure political balance. 

This was duly agreed by assent.

The Chairperson then moved each of the recommendation as set out in report in turn and these were duly agreed.

RESOLVED

(i)             That Finance Member Group is constituted of ten Members of the Council (se set out below), politically balanced and that substitution can be made from any Member of their group.

·                The Leader of the Council or their Deputy

·                Leaders of the Political Groups or the Deputies

·                Chairperson of Strategy and Resources Committee

·                Vice-Chairperson of Strategy and Resources Committee

·                Chairperson of Performance, Governance and Audit Committee

·                Vice-Chairperson of Performance, Governance and Audit Committee

·                Up to four members of the Council (dependent on the number of Political Group leaders) to ensure political balance.

(i)             That Members approve the nominations for the Working Groups provided by the respective Political Groups as set out in APPENDIX 2 to these Minutes;

(ii)            That the Working Group Protocol Document as set out in Appendix 2 to the report be adopted as a guidance document for the Council.