Agenda and minutes

The Chairman welcomed former and new Members to the inaugural meeting of the Licensing and General Purposes Committee for the Municipal Year 2008/09.

To note the appointment at the Annual Meeting of the Council on 8 May 2008 (subject to confirmation of that decision) of a Chairman of this Committee for the Municipal Year 2008/09 (or now to make an appointment).

RESOLVED: To note the appointment at the Annual Council Meeting on 8 May 2008 of Councillor Mrs Lurline Champagnie as Chairman of the Licensing and General Purposes Committee for the Municipal Year 2008/09.

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

[Note: The Members of the Committee for 2008/09 are as appointed by the Annual Council Meeting of 8 May 2008.]

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 late to the agenda by virtue of the special circumstances and grounds for urgency detailed 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 2008/09.

RESOLVED: To appoint Councillor Mrs Vina Mithani as Vice?Chairman of the Licensing and General Purposes Committee for the Municipal Year 2008/09.

To defer the signing of minutes of the Licensing and General Purposes Committee held on 3 March 2008 until the next ordinary meeting.

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

RESOLVED: That the minutes of the Licensing and General Purposes Committee held on 3 March 2008 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 2008/09.

[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].

The Chairman referred to the number of Sub-Committees that would be meeting soon after their establishment and referred to those where the agendas had already been issued.  In response to queries about the forthcoming Licensing Panels, she asked Members to speak directly to the clerk responsible for this area in order to clarify who would be serving on the Panels.

The Chairman urged Members to avail themselves of thedocument they had been sent by officers titled 'New Look LGPS in England and Wales for 2008'.

The Chairman informed the Committee of the change of date of the next Licensing and General Purposes Committee which would meet on 23 June instead of 12 June 2008.

RESOLVED:  That the Panels and Sub-Committees of the Licensing and General Purposes Committee be established for the next Municipal Year 2008/09 with the memberships and Chairmen as detailed in the appendix to these minutes.