Agenda and minutes

To note the appointment at the Annual Meeting of the Council on 10 May

2007 (subject to confirmation of that decision) of a Chairman of this Committee for the Municipal Year 2007/08 (or now to make an appointment).

RESOLVED:  To note the appointment at the Annual Council Meeting on 10 May 2007 of Councillor Mrs Lurline Champagnie as Chairman of the Licensing and General Purposes Committee for the Municipal Year 2007/08.

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

[Note: The Members of the Committee for 2007/08 are as appointed by the Annual Council Meeting of 10 May 2007.]

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

To receive declarations of personal or prejudicial interests, arising from business to be transacted at this meeting, from:

(a)               all Members of the Committee, Sub Committee, Panel or Forum;

(b)               all other Members present in any part of the room or chamber.

RESOLVED:  To note that there were no declarations of interests made by Members in relation to the business transacted at this meeting.

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 Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended).

RESOLVED:  That (1) in accordance with the Local Government (Access to Information) Act 1985, the following item be admitted to the meeting by virtue of the special circumstances and grounds for urgency stated below:

(2)  all items be considered with the press and public present.

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

Vice-Chairman of the Committee for the Municipal Year 2007/08.

Councillors Mrinal Choudhury and Mrs Vina Mithani were nominated and duly seconded. Upon being put to a vote, it was

RESOLVED:  To appoint Councillor Mrs Vina Mithani as Vice-Chairman of the Licensing and General Purposes Committee for the Municipal Year 2007/08.

[Note:  Councillors Mrinal Choudhury, Mano Dharmarajah, Thaya Idaikkadar, Nizam Ismail and Philip O’Dell wished to be recorded as having voted against this appointment].

To defer the signing of the following minutes of the Licensing and General Purposes Committee until the next ordinary meeting; the ordinary meeting held on 27 November 2006, Special meeting held on 19 February 2007 and the ordinary meeting held on 5 March 2007.

[Note:  The above minutes are published on the Council's intranet and website].

RESOLVED:  That the minutes of the ordinary meeting held on 27 November 2007, the special meeting held on 19 February 2007 and the ordinary meeting held on 5 March 2007 be deferred to the next ordinary meeting of the Committee.

To consider the establishment of and appointment of Members of the Sub-Committee and Panels of this Committee for the Municipal Year 2007/08.

[Note:  The proposed memberships of the Sub Committee and Panels relevant to this Committee and the nominees proposed as Chairmen will follow on a Supplemental Agenda].

[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].

RESOLVED:  That the Panels and Sub-Committees of the Licensing and General Purposes Committee be established for the Municipal Year 2007/08 with the memberships and Chairmen as detailed in the appendix to these minutes.