Agenda item

OUTSTANDING APPOINTMENTS TO CHAIRMANSHIPS AND EXTERNAL ORGANISATIONS

(Report by the Monitoring Officer)

Minutes:

The Monitoring Officer introduced a report setting out the appointments to the positions of Chairman of the Environment and Performance Committee, Vice-Chairman of the Planning Committee and representatives to the Black Sluice Internal Drainage Board which had been deferred from the meeting of the Council held on 26 October 2020.

 

The Monitoring Officer suggested the expedient method of voting on the appointment of Chairman of the Environment and Performance Committee and the Vice-Chairman of the Planning Committee would be to vote by naming preferred candidate as there were two nominees for each position.

 

It was moved by Councillor Tom Ashton, seconded by Councillor Stephen Woodliffe and

 

 

RESOLVED that the vote on the appointments of the Chairman of the Environment and Performance Committee and the Vice-Chairman of the Planning Committee be taken by naming the preferred candidate.

 

 

Members then commented on the experience, skills and knowledge the nominees would bring to the roles.

 

The Monitoring Officer provided clarification on the Statutory Guidance in respect of Scrutiny Committees, specifically that the guidance did not prohibit the Chairman of a scrutiny committee presiding over a relative, however it strongly recommended that this should not be the case.

 

On being put to the vote it was

 

 

RESOLVED that

 

  1. Councillor Judith Skinner be appointed Chairman of the Environment and Performance Committee to hold office whilst she remains a Councillor, until the next Annual Meeting of the Council or until the appointment of a successor.

 

  1. Councillor Alison Austin be appointed Vice-Chairman of the Planning Committee to hold office whilst she remains a Councillor, until the next Annual Meeting of the Council or until the appointment of a successor.

 

 

Consideration was then given to the Council’s appointments to the Black Sluice Internal Drainage Board and it was moved by Councillor Tom Ashton and seconded by Councillor Deborah Evans that Councillors Tom Ashton, Richard Austin, Peter Bedford, Michael Cooper, Frank Pickett, Paul Skinner, and Mr. Michael Brookes (lay member) be appointed as the Council’s representatives to serve on the Black Sluice Internal Drainage Board.

 

An amendment was moved by Councillor Neill Hastie and seconded by Councillor Brian Rush that Councillors Peter Bedford, Michael Cooper, Frank Pickett, Paul Skinner, Brian Rush, Peter Watson and Mr. Michael Brookes (lay member) be appointed as the Council’s representatives to serve on the Black Sluice Internal Drainage Board.

 

On being put to the vote the amendment was lost.

 

The substantive motion was then put to the vote and it was

 

 

RESOLVED that Councillors Tom Ashton, Richard Austin, Peter Bedford, Michael Cooper, Frank Pickett, Paul Skinner, and Mr. Michael Brookes (lay member) be appointed as the Council’s representatives to serve on the Black Sluice Internal Drainage Board whilst they remain Members of the Council, until the next Annual Meeting of the Council or until the appointment of their successors.

 

 

Councillor Peter Bedford offered to seek agreement from the Black Sluice IDB for Councillors Rush and Watson to be appointed to a Works Committee which would give them an insight into the workings of the drainage board.

 

Councillor Rush thanked Councillor Bedford but declined the offer as he would be taking the matter further as he believed he had been subject to an act of discrimination.

 

(Councillor Anne Dorrian left the meeting at 8.20 p.m.)

 

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