Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Cabinet Member for Finance & Resources.

The Cabinet Member for Finance & Resources (Councillor Malcolm Allan) submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) detailing a proposal for the enlargement of the membership of the Appointments Committee following a request from members of the committee that the Council Meeting exercises its discretion to appoint the Leader of the Independent Ratepayers Group and the Leader of the Green Party to the committee for the remainder of this municipal year.

RESOLVED - (1) That approval be given to an increase the membership of the Appointments Committee to nine for the remainder of the municipal year

(2) That approval be given to the adoption of alternative arrangements in respect of the appointment of members to the Appointments Committee (not being strictly in accordance with proportionality under section 15 of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989) and to exclude the committee from the calculation for the period until the next Annual Meeting of the Council.

(3) That Councillor Anna Charles-Jones and Councillor Gary Lawson be appointed to the vacancies.