Issue - meetings

The Council is asked to consider and approve the review of the political balance of the Council, the allocation of seats on Committees to each political group, the appointment of Councillors on Committees and appointment of outside bodies as part of the annual review.

(The final version of this report needs to be informed by the decision of Council in relation to the review of the Overview and Scrutiny function and therefore will be circulated to Members at the meeting. It is likely that a short adjournment will be required to work on the allocation of seats with political group leaders.)

The Head of Democratic Services reported that the report, on the review of the political balance of the Council, the allocation of seats on Committees to each political group, the appointment of Councillors on Committees and appointment of outside bodies as part of the annual review had been published following discussions with the Group Leaders a copy of which appears as Appendix 'A' to these Minutes in the Minute Book.

Members were advised that there were some gaps in the identification of Councillors in view of the timescale and political group Leaders were given until 12 noon on Friday 13 May 2022 to notify Democratic Services of how any vacancies would be filled.  The Head of Democratic Services reported that there was no imbalance in the proportionality.

Councillor Slade expressed her concerns on the allocation of seats on the Overview and Scrutiny Committees. 

Councillor Mellor moved the recommendations in the report as presented which were seconded by Councillor Broadhead.

 RESOLVED that:

(a) the revised political balance of the Council, as set out in Appendix 1, Table 1, be approved;

(b) the allocation of seats to each political group, as set out in Appendix 1, Table 2, be approved;

(c) the appointment of Councillors to Committees and Boards, taking account of the membership as set out in Appendix 1, Table 3, be approved;

(d) the allocation of seats to each political group on the outside bodies, as detailed in Appendix 1, Table 4, be approved;

(e) the appointment of Councillors to the outside bodies, as detailed in Appendix 1, Table 5, be approved;

(f) subject to (b) to (e) above the Council approved the appointment of unaligned Members to Committees, Boards and Outside bodies as detailed in Appendix 1.

Voting – Nem con