Agenda and minutes

Apologies were received from Councilors Bambridge, G Coleman-Cooke, K Coleman-Cooke, Curran, Dellar, Edwards, Evans, Hillman, R Potts, Shonk and Townend.

To receive any declarations of interest from Members in accordance with Council Procedure rule 2.2 (v)

There were no declarations of interest.

It was proposed by the Chairman and seconded by the Vice Chairman that:

‘Council amends its scheme of delegations by delegating to the Chief Executive (and in her

absence the Director of Corporate Governance) the authority to declare vacancies in office

under section 86 of the Local Government Act 1972.’

The Leader proposed and Councilor Savage seconded an amendment that replaced the words ‘Director of Corporate Governance’ with ‘Deputy Chief Executive’, the amended proposal read as follows:

‘Council amends its scheme of delegations by delegating to the Chief Executive (and in her

absence the Deputy Chief Executive) the authority to declare vacancies in office

under section 86 of the Local Government Act 1972.’

Upon being put to the vote, the amended motion was declared lost.

Members voted on the substantive motion and it was declared lost.