Agenda item

The Worshipful the Mayor introduced the report.

The Head of Governance requested Council note that following the decision at item 11.3 appointments would be to Planning Committees A, B and C and not Area Planning Committees, as outlined in Appendix A.

The Head of Governance also informed Council that the Conservative Group wished to move the following amendments to the nominations included in the schedules in Appendix A:

-       Strategic Planning Committee – remove Cllr Linda Freedman and replace with Cllr Golnar Bokaei

-       Planning Committee A – remove Cllr Linda Freedman (Substitute) and replace with Cllr Mark Shooter (Substitute)

-       Planning Committee A – remove Cllr Sarah Wardle (Substitute) and replace with Cllr Shimon Ryde (Substitute)

-       Planning Committee B – remove Cllr Peter Zinkin (Substitute) and replace with Cllr Shimon Ryde (Substitute)

-       Planning Committee C – remove Cllr Shimon Ryde and replace with Cllr Linda Freedman

-       Planning Committee C – remove Cllr Mark Shooter (Substitute) and replace with Cllr Shimon Ryde (Substitute)

Council were requested to note some minor typographical amendments to the Committee schedules as follows:

-       Safer Communities Partnership Board – correction to the name of Councillor Weeden-Sanz

-       Adults and Safeguarding Committee – correction to the name of Cllr Anne Clarke

-       Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee – correction to the name of Councillor Anne Hutton

Council noted the amendments to Appendix A of the report.

The Group secretaries moved the nominations in their names.

The Worshipful the Mayor moved to vote on the nominations for Chairman and Vice-Chairman.

RESOLVED:

That Council unanimously agreed the nominations put forward by the Conservative group for the roles of Chairman and Vice-Chairman on Committees, as outlined in Appendix A of the report. .

The Worshipful the Mayor moved to vote on the bodies and appointments where there was competition between the groups for membership;

-       Health and Wellbeing Board

-       Safer Communities Partnership Board

-       Local Plan Advisory Group

-       North Central London Joint Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee

-       NCL Joint Commissioning Committee

A block vote was taken on the bodies and appointments listed above where there was competition:

Votes were recorded as follows:

The 32 Members present within the Conservative group voted in favour of the conservative group nominations.

The 24 Members present within the Labour group voted in favour of the Labour group nominations.

The 2 Members present within the Liberal Democrats voted in favour of the Liberal Democrats nominations

RESOLVED:

That the Conservative nominations for the contested positions were agreed except for the Local Plan Advisory Group, where the Conservative and Labour nominations were agreed, as outlined in Appendix A of the report.

The Worshipful the Mayor moved to vote on the remaining nominations that are uncontested.

The remaining uncontested nominations were unanimously agreed.

RESOLVED:

That the uncontested nominations, as outlined in Appendix A of the report be agreed.

The Worshipful the Mayor moved to vote on the non-councillor appointments to Committees as outlined in Appendix B.

All non-Councillor appointments to Committees were unanimously agreed.

RESOLVED:

That the non-Councillor appointments to Committees, as outlined in Appendix B of the report be agreed.