Agenda and minutes

To note the attendance at this meeting of any duly appointed Reserve Members.

Reserve Members may attend meetings:-

(i)                 to take the place of an ordinary Member for whom they are a reserve;

(ii)               where the ordinary Member will be absent for the whole of the meeting; and

(iii)             the meeting notes at the start of the meeting at the item ‘Reserves’ that the Reserve Member is or will be attending as a reserve;

(iv)              if a Reserve Member whose intention to attend has been noted arrives after the commencement of the meeting, then that Reserve Member can only act as a Member from the start of the next item of business on the agenda after his/her arrival.

RESOLVED:  To note the attendance at this meeting of the following duly appointed Reserve Member:-

To receive declarations of disclosable pecuniary or non pecuniary interests, arising from business to be transacted at this meeting, from:

(a)               all Members of the Committee;

(b)               all other Members present.

RESOLVED:  To note that there were no declarations of interests made by Members.

To appoint (subject to confirmation of the Committee’s membership) a Vice

Chairman of the Committee for the municipal year 2014/15.

RESOLVED:  To appoint Councillor Paul Osborn as Vice-Chairman of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee for the 2014/2015 Municipal Year.

To consider the establishment of and appointment of Members to the Sub-

Committees of this Committee for the Municipal Year 2014/15, including the

appointment of Chairmen under Committee Procedure Rule 7.2.

[NOTE 1: Members are asked to note that subsidiary body memberships must be determined in accordance with the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 and regulations made thereunder. Therefore, whilst the Committee has to confirm the membership of its Sub-Committees to comply with the Local Government Act 1972, the actual nominations of named Councillors are decided by each group, from within the membership of that group. It is not open to the Committee to seek to change or to delay the nominations duly made by a group. It is only if there is a failure to make a nomination or to act in due time that the Committee may seek to consider the matter further].

[NOTE 2: The proposed membership of the Sub-Committees relevant to this Committee and the nominees proposed will follow on a supplemental agenda]

The Committee considered a report setting out the proposed memberships and Chairmen of the Sub-Committees for 2014/15 which had been circulated on the supplemental agenda.

It was reported that the Labour Group had indicated that they wished to nominate Councillor Phil O’Dell as Chairman of the Performance and Finance Scrutiny Sub-Committee.  A member of the Opposition Group voiced her dissatisfaction that the Administration had not kept to a pre-election agreement that opposition Members would chair the Overview and Scrutiny Committee and Sub-Committees.

RESOLVED:  That the Sub-Committees of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee be established for the Municipal Year 2014/15 with the memberships and Chairmen detailed on the supplemental agenda, including that Councillor Phil O’Dell be appointed as Chair of the Performance and Finance Scrutiny Sub-Committee.

To appoint the policy and performance leads for the municipal year 2014/15.

The Committee considered proposals relating to Lead Members for Scrutiny for 2014/15.

RESOLVED:  That the Scrutiny Lead Members and their areas of responsibility, as detailed on the second supplemental agenda, be agreed.