Agenda and minutes

To note the appointment at the Annual Meeting of the Council on 12 May 2005 (subject to confirmation of that decision) of a Chair of this Committee for the Municipal Year 2005/06 (or now to make an appointment).

RESOLVED:  To note the appointment under the provisions of Council Procedure Rule 1.1 (xii) at the Annual Council meeting, held on 12 May 2005, of Councillor Idaikkadar as Chair of the Committee for the Municipal Year 2005/06.

To note that there are no Reserve Members appointed to this Committee.

[Note:  The Members of the Committee for 2005/06 are as appointed by the Annual Council Meeting of 12 May 2005.]

RESOLVED:  To note that no Reserve Members were included in the Committee’s membership.

To appoint (subject to confirmation of the Committee’s membership) a Vice?Chair of the Committee for the Municipal Year 2005/06.

(The Labour Group has nominated Councillor Ann Groves to this office).

Councillors Ann Groves and Knowles respectively were nominated to the office of Vice-Chair.  Upon a vote, it was

RESOLVED:  To appoint Councillor Ann Groves as Vice-Chair of the Committee for the Municipal Year 2005/06.

To receive declarations of personal or prejudicial interests, arising from business to be transacted at this meeting, from all Members present.

RESOLVED:  To note that no declarations of interests were made in relation to the business on the agenda.

To consider whether any of the items listed on the agenda should be considered with the press and public excluded on the grounds that it is thought likely, in view of the nature of the business to be transacted, that there would be disclosure of confidential information in breach of an obligation of confidence or of exempt information as defined in the Local Government (Access to Information) Act 1985.

RESOLVED:  That all items on the agenda be considered with the press and public present.

To defer the signing of the Minutes of the Committee’s meeting held on 7 March 2005 until the next ordinary meeting.

RESOLVED:  That the minutes of the previous meeting held on 7 March 2005, be deferred until the next ordinary meeting of this Committee.

To consider the establishment of and appointment of Members to subsidiary bodies of this Committee for the Municipal Year 2005/06, including the appointment of Chairs under Committee Procedure Rule 7.2.

[Note:  The proposed memberships of the Sub Committee and Panels relevant to this Committee and the nominees proposed as Chairs are set out in the appendices].

[NOTE:  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 Panels 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].

Further to the nominations now submitted by the political Groups in respect of this Committee’s subsidiary body memberships and to the office of Chairs as appropriate, it was

RESOLVED:  That the Licensing and General Purposes Sub-Committee and Panels be established for the Municipal Year 2005/06 with the memberships and Chairs as detailed in the appendix to these Minutes.