Agenda item

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

(a)

notes the political proportionality framework and the illustrative example of how this may be applied in 2013/14, as set out in the report circulated with the agenda for this meeting;

(b)

agrees that the terms of reference of Council Committees in 2013/14 be as currently set out in the Constitution, subject to the incorporation of new terms of reference and remit of the Overview and Scrutiny Management Committee, the establishment of a single Planning and Highways Committee, and the abolition of the Community Assemblies, as described in the report, and authority be given for the Constitution to be amended accordingly;

(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 six seats be from (A) the Safer and Stronger Communities Scrutiny and Policy Development Committee, the Licensing Committee and the Appeals and Collective Disputes Committee, with those seats being allocated to the Green Group and (B) the Planning and Highways Committee, the Admissions Committee and the Senior Officer Employment Committee with those seats 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, and to the Standards Committee for the reasons set out in paragraph 3.3.2 of the report;

(e)

confers its powers of review and scrutiny of local health services, including the power of referral to the Secretary of State for Health, to the Healthier Communities and Adult Social Care Scrutiny and Policy Development Committee, as per the Local Authority (Public Health, Health and Wellbeing Boards and Health Scrutiny) Regulations 2013;

(f)

notes that the effect of the establishment of Council Committees for 2013/14 upon the Special Responsibility Allowance element of the budget for Members’ Allowances will be set out in the motion to be approved later at the meeting in relation to the Members’ Allowances Scheme for 2013/14; 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.

MEMBERSHIP OF COUNCIL COMMITTEES 2013/14

Title/Post

Labour

Liberal Democrat

Green/Other

Scrutiny and Policy Development Committees:-

(1) Children, Young People and Family Support

Cllrs Gill Furniss, Talib Hussain, Mohammad Maroof, Lynn Rooney, Karen McGowan, Helen Mirfin-Boukouris, Ray Satur, Nikki Sharpe and Stuart Wattam

Cllrs Colin Ross, Andrew Sangar, Diana Stimely and Cliff Woodcraft

Jules Jones (Parent Governor Representative - to 31/7/15),
Gillian Foster,
Joan Stratford (Diocese Reps) Alison Warner (School Governor Representative)

(2) Economic and Environmental Wellbeing

Cllrs Jayne Duun, Terry Fox, Bob Johnson, Steve Jones,  George Lindars-Hammond, Cate McDonald, Tim Rippon and Steve Wilson

Cllrs Ian Auckland, Trevor Bagshaw, Alison Brelsford and Joe Otten

(3) Healthier Communities & Adult Social Care

Cllrs Janet Bragg, John Campbell, Tony Downing,  Adam Hurst, martin Lawton, Mick Rooney, Jackie Satur, Garry Weatherall and Joyce Wright

Cllrs Sue Alston, Katie Condliffe, Roger Davison and Diana Stimely.

Alice Riddell, Helen Rowe and Anne Ashby (Link Representatives) (Observers)

(4) Safer and Stronger Communities

Cllrs David Barker, Sheila Constance, Richard Crowther, Ben Curran, Denise Fox, Qurban Hussain, Sioned-Mair Richards, Peter Rippon, Chris Weldon and Phillip Wood

Cllrs Penny Baker, Simon Clement-Jones and Rob Frost

Cllr Rob Murphy

(5) Overview & Scrutiny Management Committee

Cllrs Gill Furniss, Mick Rooney, Chris Weldon and Cate McDonald

Cllrs Ian Auckland, Penny Baker, Roger Davison and Andrew Sangar

Scrutiny Committee Substitute Members:-

(5 vacancies)

(5) vacancies

Cllr Jillian Creasy

Statutory/Regulatory Committees:-

Planning and Highways Committee:-

Cllrs Janet Bragg, Tony Downing, Jayne Dunn, Ibrar Hussain, Bob Johnson, Alan Law, Peter Price, Peter Rippon, Joyce Wright and Garry Weatherall

Cllrs Trevor Bagshaw, David Baker and Bob McCann

Planning and Highways Committee Substitute Members:-

Cllrs Tony Damms, Talib Hussain, Mohammad Maroof and Ian Saunders

Licensing Committee

Cllrs Jenny Armstrong, David Barker, Nikki Bond, Neale Gibson, Adam Hurst, George Lindars-Hammond, John Robson, Nikki Sharpe, Clive Skelton, Stuart Wattam and Phillip Wood

Cllr Cliff Woodcraft (2 vacancies)

Cllr Jillian Creasy

Audit Committee

Cllrs Martin Lawton, Ray Satur, Helen Mirfin-Boukouris and Steve Jones

Cllrs Anders Hanson and Joe Otten

Beryl Seaman and Rick Plews (Independent Co-optees) (Until 19^th May 2015)

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, Ian Saunders, Nikki Sharpe and Clive Skelton

Cllr Andrew Sangar

Senior Officer Employment Committee

Cllrs Julie Dore, Harry Harpham, Leigh Bramall, Isobel Bowler, Jackie Drayton, Mazher Iqbal, Mary Lea, Bryan Lodge and Jack Scott, (3 vacancies)

Cllrs David Baker, Shaffaq Mohammed and Colin Ross

Appeals and Collective Disputes Committee

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

Cllrs David Baker, Bob McCann and Denise Reaney

Cllr Jillian Creasy

Standards Committee

Cllrs Alan Law, Bryan Lodge, Pat Midgley and Clive Skelton, (1) vacancy

Cllrs David Baker, Penny Baker and Roger Davison

John Atkinson, Edward Fleming and Alan Casbolt (independent co-optees) and 1 Parish Council co-optee (to be selected for each meeting from a pool of 3 nominees)

Independent Remuneration Panel

Abtisam Mohammed (to 6/2/14), David Baldwin (to 6/2/15), Lynda Hinxman (to 6/2/15) and Mark Power (to 6/2/17)