Agenda item

Report of the Head of Governance - Appointments and Changes to the Calendar of Meetings

Minutes:

A separate vote was taken on the recommendations in each of the appendices to the cover report.

 

Appendix A – calculation of political balance

 

Council noted that Appendix A had been circulated as a supplementary paper.

 

RESOLVED:

 

1.    Council noted the political balance of the Council was:

 

·         32 Members of the Conservative Group;

·         30 Members of the Labour Group;

·         1 Liberal Democrat

 

2.    That the allocation of seats was agreed as set out in the Table A of Appendix A in order to comply with the political balance regulations requiring seats to be allocated proportionately to the political groups represented on Council.

 

3.    Council agreed the allocation of seats on non-politically proportionate bodies as set out in Table B of Appendix A.

 

4.    Council agreed to the allocation of a seat to the member not part of a political group and, in accordance with the circulated schedule of appointments to committees, Councillor Jack Cohen was allocated a seat on the Licensing Committee and as a substitute member of the Finchley & Golders Green Area Planning Committee.

 

Appendix A1 – Appointments to Committees AND OTHER BODIES

 

Council considered the nominations for appointments to committees and other bodies as set out in Appendix A1.

 

The Group Secretaries moved the nominations in their name.

 

Councillor Joan Scannell moved the following amendment:

 

Environment Committee – The Conservative nomination for members on the Environment Committee be amended so that Councillor Alison Cornelius replaces Councillor Joan Scannell as a member of the committee.

 

A separate vote was taken on the Conservative Group nominations and the Labour Group nominations where there was competition for roles, as follows:

 

Chairman and Vice-Chairman:

 

  • Policy and Resources Committee
  • Performance & Contract Monitoring Committee
  • Children, Education Libraries & Safeguarding Committee
  • Environment Committee
  • Assets, Regeneration & Growth Committee
  • Adults & Safeguarding Committee
  • Housing Committee
  • Community Leadership Committee
  • Audit Committee
  • Planning Committee
  • General Functions Committee
  • Health Overview & Scrutiny Committee
  • Constitution, Ethics & Probity Committee
  • Chief Officer Appointment Panel

 

Councillors Joan Scannell (Conservative) and Ammar Naqvi (Labour) moved the nominations in their name. Upon the Conservative nominations being put to the vote, the votes were declared as follows:

 

For

32

Against

30

Abstain

1

Total

63

 

The Conservative nominations were declared carried.

 

RESOLVED:

 

1.    That the Conservative Group nominations for Chairman and Vice-Chairman on the above committees be approved.

 

2.    That the Labour Group nominations for Chairman and Vice-Chairman become appointments as committee members instead.

 

3.    That those remaining Chairman and Vice-Chairman nominations that are uncontested be approved.

 

Chairman only:

 

  • Licensing Committee
  • Pension Fund Committee
  • Urgency Committee
  • Finchley & Golders Green Area Committee
  • Finchley & Golders Green Area Planning Committee
  • Finchley & Golders Green Residents Forum
  • Chipping Barnet Area Committee
  • Chipping Barnet Area Planning Committee
  • Chipping Barnet Residents Forum
  • Hendon Area Committee
  • Hendon Area Planning Committee
  • Hendon Residents Forum
  • Corporate Parenting Advisory Panel
  • Health and Wellbeing Board

 

Councillors Joan Scannell (Conservative) and Ammar Naqvi (Labour) moved the nominations in their name. Upon the Conservative nominations being put to the vote, the votes were declared as follows:

 

 

For

32

Against

31

Abstain

0

Total

63

 

The Conservative nominations were declared carried.

 

RESOLVED:

 

1.    That the Conservative Group nominations for Chairman on the above committees be approved.

 

2.    That the Labour Group nominations for Chairman become appointments as committee members instead, except in the case of the Finchley and Golders Green, Hendon and Chipping Barnet Residents’ Forums.

 

3.    That those remaining Chairman nominations that are uncontested be approved.

 

Membership:

 

  • Safer Communities Partnership Board
  • Children’s Trust Partnership Board
  • North Central London Joint Health Overview & Scrutiny Committee
  • Health & Well-Being Board

 

Councillors Joan Scannell (Conservative) and Ammar Naqvi (Labour) moved the nominations in their name. Upon the Conservative nominations being put to the vote, the votes were declared as follows:

 

For

32

Against

30

Abstain

1

Total

63

 

The Conservative nominations were declared carried.

 

RESOLVED:

 

1.    That the Conservative Group nominations for membership on the above bodies be approved.

 

2.    That those remaining nominations that are uncontested are agreed.

 

Lead Member for Children’s Services:

 

Upon nominations in the names of Councillors Joan Scannell and Ammar Naqvi being put to the vote, the votes were declared as follows:

 

For

32

Against

30

Abstain

1

Total

63

 

1.    That the Conservative Group nomination for Lead Member for Children’s Services be approved.

 

 

Appendix B – Appointments to Outside Bodies

 

Council noted that the Appendix B had been circulated as a supplementary paper.

 

A separate was taken on the Conservative Group nomination and the Labour Group nomination for the one contested role on the Colindale Communities Trust.

 

Councillors Joan Scannell (Conservative) and Ammar Naqvi (Labour) moved the nomination in their name. Upon the Conservative nomination being put to the vote, the votes were declared as follows:

 

For

32

Against

31

Abstain

0

 

The Conservative nominations were declared carried.

 

RESOLVED:

 

1.    That the Conservative Group nomination for the appointment to the Colindale Communities Trust be approved.

 

2.    That those remaining uncontested nominations to Outside Bodies as detailed in Appendix B be approved.

 

Appendix c – appointment of independent persons to the standards committee

 

RESOLVED – That Council approved the appointments as laid out in Appendix C.

 

 

Appendix d – changes to the calendar of meetings

 

A representation was heard from Councillor Geof Cooke in respect to the item.

 

RESOLVED – That Council noted the changes to the calendar of meetings as set out in Appendix D.

 

 

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