Agenda item

RESOLVED: On the Motion of Councillor Pat Midgley, seconded by Councillor Clive Skelton, that the City Council:-

(a)

agrees that the current Council Committees, with their terms of reference set out in the Constitution, be re-established subject to the renaming of the Scrutiny Committees as Scrutiny and Policy Development Committees, and authority be given for the Constitution to be amended accordingly;

(b)

notes the political proportionality framework and the illustrative example of how this might be applied, as set out in the report circulated with the agenda for this meeting;

(c)

(i) approves the sizes of individual Committees to be subject to proportional balance and the initial allocation of seats to political groups

on individual Committees before final adjustment, as set out in the report; (ii) agrees that, in order to ensure that each political group has the required number of seats overall in comparison to the total number of seats available on Committees to reflect their composition on the Council as a whole, the Liberal Democrat Group’s adjustments of four seats be from (A) the Economic and Environmental Well-being Scrutiny and Policy Development Committee, the Licensing Committee and the Senior Officer Employment Committee, with those seats being allocated to the Green Group and (B) the Appeals and Collective Disputes Committee, with the seat being allocated to the Labour Group; and (iii) approves the appointment of Members to all Council Committees to reflect the arrangements now agreed and the wishes of the political groups, in accordance with the schedule circulated at the meeting (and including substitutes where appropriate), and, for the purposes of Council Procedure Rule 25.4, the consent of the Council be given in any case where a Member chooses not to be appointed to serve on any Scrutiny or Regulatory Committee;

(d)

agrees to disapply proportionality to the Senior Officer Employment Sub-Committees and the Appeals and Collective Disputes Sub-Committees, for the reasons set out in paragraph 3.2.4 of the report;

(e)

notes that the re-establishment of the current Council Committees has a neutral effect on the budget for Members Allowances;

(f)

notes that a report will be submitted to the meeting of the Council on 13^th June in relation to the standards arrangements to be adopted by the Authority from 1^st July, and consequential changes required to be made to the Constitution of the Council and to political proportionality; and

(g)

determines that political proportionality be reviewed in December each year to reflect any changes to the political composition of the Council occurring since the annual meeting of the Council.

Title/Post

Labour

Liberal Democrat

Green/Other

Scrutiny and Policy Development Committees:-

(1) Children, Young People and Family Support

Cllrs Jayne Dunn, Gill Furniss, George Lindars-Hammond, Talib Hussain, Karen McGowan, Lynn Rooney, Nikki Sharpe and Stuart Wattam, (1) vacancy

Councillors Rob Frost, Keith Hill, Colin Ross and Andrew Sangar

Jules Jones (Parent Governor Representative - to 31/7/12),
Gillian Foster,
Joan Stratford (Diocese Reps) Alison Warner (School Governor Representative) and
Alice Riddell (LinK Representative (Observer)

(2) Economic and Environmental Wellbeing

Cllrs Terry Fox, Neale Gibson, Bob Johnson, Steve Jones, Alf Meade, Helen Mirfin-Boukouris, Sioned-Mair Richards, Jackie Satur and Steve Wilson

Councillors Ian Auckland, Roger Davison and Joe Otten

Cllr Rob Murphy

(3) Healthier Communities & Adult Social Care

Cllrs Janet Bragg, Tony Downing, Adam Hurst, Ibrar Hussain, Cate McDonald, Peter Rippon, Mick Rooney, Garry Weatherall and Joyce Wright

Councillors Sue Alston, Denise Reaney, Clive Skelton and Diana Stimely

Helen Rowe and Anne Ashby (LinK Representatives) (Observers)

(4) Safer and Stronger Communities

Cllrs David Barker, Nikki Bond, Sheila Constance, Richard Crowther, Denise Fox, Martin Lawton, Roy Munn, Chris Rosling-Josephs and Chris Weldon

Cllrs Penny Baker, Simon Clement-Jones, Anders Hanson and Shaffaq Mohammed

(5) Overview & Scrutiny Management Committee

(4) vacancies

(4) vacancies

Scrutiny Committee Substitute Members:-

Cllrs Tony Downing, Bob Johnson, Pat Midgley, Sioned-Mair Richards and Geoff Smith

(5) vacancies

Statutory/Regulatory Committees:-

Planning and Highways Committees:-

City Centre, South and East

Councillors Tony Downing, Jayne Dunn, Adam Hurst, Ibrar Hussain, Alan Law, Peter Price and Nikki Sharpe

Councillors David Baker, Janice Sidebottom and Diana Stimely

West and North

Cllrs Richard Crowther, Talib Hussain, Peter Rippon, Garry Weatherall and Joyce Wright, (2) vacancies

Councillors Trevor Bagshaw, Katie Condliffe and Bob McCann

Planning and Highways Area Committees Substitute Members:-

Councillors Tony Damms, Gill Furniss, George Lindars-Hammond, Helen Mirfin-Boukouris, Joyce Wright and Stuart Wattam, (4) vacancies

(10) vacancies

Licensing Committee

Cllrs Jenny Armstrong, David Barker, Nikki Bond, Neale Gibson, John Robson, Ian Saunders, Geoff Smith, Stuart Wattam and Phillip Wood, (2) vacancies

Councillors Vickie Priestley and Clive Skelton (1 vacancy)

Cllr Jillian Creasy

Audit Committee

Cllrs Ray Satur, Steve Jones, Martin Lawton and Sioned Mair-Richards

(2) vacancies

Admissions Committee

(Substitute Members to be appointed by the Chief Executive in consultation with the relevant Cabinet Portfolio Member or Opposition Spokesperson, as appropriate)

Cllrs Chris Rosling-Josephs, Talib Hussain, Martin Lawton and Nikki Sharpe (1 vacancy)

Councillors Alison Brelsford and Clive Skelton

Senior Officer Employment Committee

Councillors Julie Dore, Harry Harpham, Leigh Bramall, Isobel Bowler, Jackie Drayton, Mazher Iqbal, Mary Lea, Bryan Lodge and Jack Scott

(3) vacancies

Cllr Jillian Creasy

Appeals and Collective Disputes Committee

Councillors Terry Fox (Chair), Denise Fox, Neale Gibson, Cate McDonald, Pat Midgley, Nikki Sharpe and Geoff Smith, (4) vacancies

(3) vacancies

Standards Committee

(to 1^st July 2012)

Councillors Alan Law, Bryan Lodge and Pat Midgley

Councillors Roger Davison and Clive Skelton

Mr. Marvyn H. Moore, John Atkinson, Alan Casbolt and Edward Fleming (Independent Members), Cllrs Malcolm Glover and Alan Hooper (Parish Council reps), Nigel J. Owen (Town Council Rep)

Area Committees (Community Assemblies)

Central

Cllrs Janet Bragg, Ben Curran, Jayne Dunn, Neale Gibson, Bob Johnson, George Lindars-Hammond, Mohammad Maroof, Nikki Sharpe and Stuart Wattam

Cllr Shaffaq Mohammed

Cllrs Jillian Creasy and Robert Murphy

East

Cllrs Jenny Armstrong, John Campbell, Julie Dore, Terry Fox, Harry Harpham, Mazher Iqbal, Martin Lawton, Mary Lea, Pat Midgley, John Robson, Lynn Rooney and Jack Scott

Northern

Cllrs Richard Crowther, Adam Hurst, Alf Meade, Garry Weatherall, Steve Wilson, Phillip Wood and Joyce Wright

Cllrs Trevor Bagshaw, David Baker, Alison Brelsford, Kate Condliffe and Vickie Priestley

North East

Cllrs Leigh Bramall, Sheila Constance, Tony Damms, Jackie Drayton, Gill Furniss, Ibrar Hussain, Talib Hussain, Alan Law, Peter Price, Sioned-Mair Richards, Peter Rippon and Chris Weldon 

South

Cllrs Nikki Bond, Qurban Hussain, Steve Jones, Cate Mcdonald, Roy Munn and Tim Rippon

Cllrs Ian Auckland, Simon Clement-Jones, Anders Hanson, Bob McCann, Denise Reaney and Clive Skelton

South East

Cllrs David Barker, Isobel Bowler, Anthony Downing Denise Fox, Bryan Lodge, Karen McGowan, Helen Mirfin-Boukouris, Mick Rooney, Chris Rosling-Josephs, Jackie Satur, Ray Satur and Ian Saunders

South West

Cllr Geoff Smith

Cllrs Sue Alston, Sylvia Anginotti, Penny Baker, Roger Davison, Rob Frost, Keith Hill, Joe Otten, Colin Ross, Andrew Sangar, Diana Stimley and Janice Sidebottom