Agenda item

Constitution of Committees, Political Balance, Appointments to Committees, Panels and Boards

Meeting of Annual, Council, Thursday, 10th May, 2018 7.00 pm (Item 9.)

Minutes:

NUMBER AND SIZE OF COMMITTEES

It was proposed by the Chairman, seconded by the Vice-Chairman and Members agreed the number of committees and the number of Members to serve on those committees as shown in table 1 of the report, namely:

Committee	Number of Members
Planning Committee	15
Licensing Board	15
Finance, Budget and Performance Scrutiny Panel	8
Executive, Policy and Community Safety Scrutiny Panel	8
Governance and Audit Committee	14
General Purposes Committee	10
Boundary and Electoral Arrangements Working Party	8
Constitutional Review Working Party	5 (+2 independent)
Joint Transportation Board*	7 (+1 parish)
Standards Committee**	8 (+ 4 independent, + 3 parish)

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PROPORTIONALITY

It was proposed by the Leader, seconded by Councillor Savage and Members agreed option 1 as detailed at paragraph 5.4 of the report, namely:

“That a seat is deleted from the Licensing Board and that the Labour Group loses that seat. That the Overview and Panel be deleted and replaced by two Scrutiny Panels, these each consisting of eight seats, divided as follows: Conservatives three seats, Independent & UKIP group two seats, Thanet Independent Councillors group two seats and the Labour group one seat. That one seat is added to the Governance and Audit Committee and that seat is given to the Conservative Group.”

Committees Option 1	Total	Conservative Group	Independent & UKIP Group	Thanet Independent Councillors	Labour Group
Planning Committee	15	6	3	4	2
Licensing Board	15	5	4	4	1
Finance, Budget & Performance Scrutiny Panel	8	3	2	2	1
Executive, Policy & Community Safety Scrutiny Panel	8	3	2	2	1
Gov. and Audit	15	6	4	4	1
General Purposes	10	4	3	2	1
B&EA Working Party	8	3	2	2	1
CRWP	5	2	1	1	1
Totals	83	32	21	21	9

STANDARDS COMMITTEE

It was proposed by the Chairman, seconded by the Vice-Chairman and Members agreed to waive proportionality for the standards committee and to apply the approximate proportionality as set out table 4 of the report, namely:

	Total	Conservative Group	Ind & UKIP Group	Thanet Ind Cllrs	Labour Group	Parish/ Town Council
Standards Committee	15	3	2	1	4**	3
Standards Assessment Sub-Committee	3	*	*	0	At least 1	*
Standards Hearing Sub-Committee	3	*	*	0	At least 1	*

NOTE*; the remaining two members would be either Thanet District Council Members from those groups that are entitled to seats on the Standards Committee, Town/Parish Council members or further independent members, on a case by case basis. In the case of complaint against a Town or Parish Councillor at least one of the panel would be a Town or Parish Council representative.

** Currently there are only two Independent Members in post.”

JOINT TRANSPORTATION BOARD

It was proposed by the Chairman, seconded by Vice-Chairman, and Members agreed the proportionality between groups for the Thanet District Council seats on the Joint Transportation Board as set out in table 5 of the report, namely:

TDC Members

Conservative Group

Ind & UKIP Group

Thanet Ind Cllrs Group

Labour Group

Parish/

Town Council

Joint

Transportation

Board

EAST KENT JOINT ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE

It was proposed by the Chairman, seconded by the Vice-Chairman and Members agreed the Joint Arrangements Committee as set out in table 6 of the report, namely:

	Total (from Thanet)	Conservative Group	Ind & UKIP Group	Thanet Independent Cllrs Group	Labour Group
East Kent Joint Arrangements Committee	2 plus two substitutes	2 Executive members and 2 Substitute Executive members	0	0	0

NOMINATION OF MEMBERS TO SERVE ON COMMITTEES

It was proposed by the Chairman, seconded by the Vice-Chairman and Members agreed to note the nominations to committees as shown in the Members notes subject to the amendments made by the Leader, namely;

Planning Committee

Conservative		IND & UKIP		Thanet Ind. Cllrs		Labour
1	Ashbee	1	Connor	1	Buckley	1	Fenner
2	K Coleman-Cooke	2	J Fairbrass	2	Edwards	2	Matterface
3	Messenger	3	Grove	3	Taylor
4	D.Saunders			4	Shonk
5	Tomlinson
6	Evans

Planning Committee (pool of substitute Members)

Conservative		IND & UKIP		Thanet Ind. Cllrs		Labour
1	Dawson	1	Larkins	1	Rusiecki	1	Campbell
2		2	Dellar	2	L Piper	2	Constantine
3		3	Crow-Brown	3	Jaye-Jones
4				4
5
6

Licensing Board

Conservative		IND & UKIP		Thanet Ind. Cllrs		Labour
1	K Coleman-Cooke	1	Connor	1	L Potts	1	Johnston
2	Curran	2	Crow-Brown	2	Brimm
3	Rogers	3	Dellar	3	Dennis
4	M Saunders	4	J Fairbrass	4	TBC
5	Tomlinson

Scrutiny Panel Finance, Budget & Performance Scrutiny Panel

Conservative		IND & UKIP		Thanet Ind. Cllrs		Labour
1	Dexter	1	Connor	1	S Piper	1	Campbell
2	Parsons	2	Falcon	2	L Piper
3	Martin

Scrutiny Panel Executive, Policy & Community Safety Scrutiny

Conservative		IND & UKIP		Thanet Ind. Cllrs		Labour
1	Ashbee	1	G Coleman-Cooke	1	Rusiecki	1	Campbell
2	Bambridge	2	Dixon	2	L Potts
3	Curran

Governance and Audit Committee

Conservative		IND & UKIP		Thanet Ind. Cllrs		Labour
1	Day	1	Connor	1	Buckley	1	Campbell
2	Dexter	2	Dixon	2	Braidwood
3	Evans	3	Larkins	3	R Potts
4	Messenger	4	Townend	4	Dennis
5	Bambridge
6	Pugh

Governance and Audit Committee (Pool of Substitute Members)

Conservative		IND & UKIP		Thanet Ind. Cllrs		Labour
1	Savage	1	G Coleman-Cooke	1	Edwards	1	Fenner
2	Messenger	2	Dellar	2	Shonk
3		3	Wells	3	Jaye-Jones
4		4	L Fairbrass	4
5
6

General Purposes Committee

Conservative		IND & UKIP		Thanet Ind. Cllrs		Labour
1	Bambridge	1	Wells	1	Edwards	1	Johnston
2	Bayford	2	L Fairbrass	2	R Potts
3	Gregory	3	Crow-Brown
4	Taylor-Smith

Boundaries and Electoral Arrangements Working Party

Conservative		IND & UKIP		Thanet Ind Cllrs		Labour
1	Savage	1	Crow-Brown	1	Brimm	1	Venables
2	TBC	2	Stummer-Schmertzing	2	TBC
3	TBC

Constitutional Review Working Party

Conservative

IND & UKIP

Thanet Ind. Cllrs

Labour

Independent Members

(non Councillors) *

Game

Dixon

Dennis

Campbell

Sexton

Tomlinson

Bacon

NOTE: * drawn from the Independent Members of the Standards Committee

Standards Committee

Conservative		IND & UKIP		Thanet Ind. Cllrs		Labour		Independent Members (non Councillors) *
1	Dexter	1	J Fairbrass	1	Jaye-Jones	1	Johnston	1	Sexton
2	Tomlinson	2	L Fairbrass	2	Braidwood			2	Bacon
3	Dawson							3	Vacant
								4	Vacant

Joint Transport Board

Conservative		IND & UKIP		Thanet Ind. Cllrs		Labour
1	K Coleman-Cooke	1	Connor	1	Taylor
2	Rogers	2	Crow-Brown	2	Rusiecki
3	Parsons

East Kent Services Committee

Conservative		IND & UKIP	Thanet Ind. Cllrs	Labour
1	Bayford
2	Savage

Election of Chairman and Vice Chairman to Committees, Panels and Boards for the 2018/19 Municipal Year

It was proposed by the Chairman, seconded by the Vice-Chairman and Members agreed to elect those nominated for chairmen and vice chairmen as shown in the Members notes, namely;

Position to be Filled	Councillor
Chairman of Planning Committee	Cllr Bob Grove
Vice Chairman of Planning Committee	Cllr Carol Messenger
Chairman of Licensing Board	Cllr Linda Potts
Vice Chairman of Licensing Board	Cllr Julie Dellar
Chairman of Finance, Budget & Performance Scrutiny Panel	Cllr Linda Piper
Vice Chairman of Finance, Budget & Performance Scrutiny Panel	Cllr Peter Campbell
Chairman of Executive, Policy & Community Safety Scrutiny Panel	Cllr Glenn Coleman-Cooke
Vice Chairman of Executive, Policy & Community Safety Scrutiny Panel	Cllr Ash Ashbee
Chairman of Governance and Audit Committee	Cllr Simon Day
Vice Chairman of Governance and Audit Committee	Cllr Sarah Larkins
Vice Chairman of Joint Transportation Board	Cllr Gary Taylor

It was proposed by the Chairman, seconded by the Vice-Chairman and Members agreed that Dr Jonathan Sexton be appointed Chairman of the Standards Committee and Constitutional Review Working Party for the 2018/19 municipal year; And, that Mrs Janet Bacon be appointed Vice-Chairman of the Standards Committee and Constitutional Review Working Party for the 2018/19 municipal year.

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