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Appointment of Member Level Bodies 2018/19

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Decision Maker: South Somerset District Council

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Decision:

Recommendation (1) – to note the appointment of Leader of the Council

RESOLVED:

that Council noted that it appointed Councillor Ric Pallister as Leader of the Council for a period of four years, starting on the day of his election (May 2015) and ending on the day of the post 4-year Council election annual meeting (May 2019).

Recommendation (2) – to note the appointment of Deputy Leader of the Council

RESOLVED:

that Council noted that it appointed Councillor Jo Roundell Greene as Deputy Leader of the Council to hold office (subject to Article 7.03) until the end of the term of office of the Leader (May 2019).

Recommendation (3) - Appointment of Membership and establishment of District Executive Committee

RESOLVED:	that the Leader appointed the following Members and Portfolio responsibilities for 2018/19;
	Ric Pallister	Lib Dem	Leader: Strategy & Policy (including Strategic Housing, LSP, HR, Efficiency agenda, Performance, Private Sector Housing, oversight of Civil Contingencies)
	Jo Roundell Greene	Lib Dem	Deputy Leader: Environment & Economic Development and Transformation: (including Economic Development, Regeneration, Streetscene, Waste & Recycling)
	Peter Seib	Lib Dem	Finance & Legal Services (including Strategic Car Parking Income, Revenues & Benefits, Strategic Asset Management, Procurement, South West Audit Partnership
	Sylvia Seal	Lib Dem	Leisure & Culture: (including Sport, Countryside, Arts, Health & Well-Being, Third Sector, Operational Housing & Welfare)
	Henry Hobhouse	Lib Dem	Property and Climate Change and Income Generation: (including Strategic Transport, Property & Engineering, ICT, GIS, Carbon Management)
	Angie Singleton	Lib Dem	Strategic Planning (Place Making) (including Development Management, Spatial Planning, Area Development, Market Town Investment Group, Licensing)
	Val Keitch	Lib Dem	Area West Chair (Environmental Health, Health and Safety, Democratic Services and Member Development, Equalities and Diversity)
	Graham Middleton	Cons	Area North Chair (Waste and Recycling and Tourism)
	Nick Weeks	Cons	Area East Chair (Civil Contingencies and Heritage, Building Control and Listed Buildings)
	Peter Gubbins	Lib Dem	Area South Chair (Yeovil Town Centre Regeneration, Community Safety and Crematorium)

Recommendation (4) – Re-establishment of member level bodies for 2018/19

RESOLVED:

that the following member-level bodies be re-established for 2018/19:

4 Area Committees (geographical representation)

Scrutiny Committee (14 members)

Audit Committee (10 members)

Regulation Committee (14 members)

Licensing Committee (15 members)

Appointments Committee (8 members)

Standards Committee (6 District Council members plus 5 co-optees)

Recommendation (5) - Appoint Members to Member-Level Bodies

RESOLVED:	that the memberships of the bodies established as in recommendation (4) be approved as follows for 2018/19 having regard to the principles of political balance as set out in the report and giving effect to the wishes of the party political groups:
Area North Committee		13 members (exempt from political balance)
		Adam Dance	Lib Dem
		Stephen Page	Lib Dem
		Crispin Raikes	Lib Dem
		Jo Roundell Greene	Lib Dem
		Sylvia Seal	Lib Dem
		Clare Aparicio Paul	Conservative
		Neil Bloomfield	Conservative
		Graham Middleton	Conservative	Chairman
		Tiffany Osborne	Conservative
		Gerard Tucker	Conservative	Vice Chairman
		Dean Ruddle	Conservative
		Sue Steele	Conservative
		Derek Yeomans	Conservative

Area South Committee	19 members (exempt from political balance)
	Cathy Bakewell	Lib Dem
	John Clark	Lib Dem
	Peter Gubbins	Lib Dem	Chairman
	Kaysar Hussain	Lib Dem
	Andy Kendall	Lib Dem
	Mike Lock	Lib Dem
	Tony Lock	Lib Dem
	Graham Oakes	Lib Dem
	Wes Read	Lib Dem
	David Recardo	Lib Dem	Vice Chairman
	Peter Seib	Lib Dem
	Alan Smith	Lib Dem
	Rob Stickland	Lib Dem
	Gye Dibben	Conservative
	John Field	Conservative
	Nigel Gage	Conservative
	Sarah Lindsay	Conservative
	Sam McAllister	Conservative
	Gina Seaton	Conservative

Area East Committee	12 members (exempt from political balance)
	Sarah Dyke	Lib Dem
	Henry Hobhouse	Lib Dem
	Tony Capozzoli	Independent
	Mike Beech	Conservative
	Hayward Burt	Conservative
	Nick Colbert	Conservative	Vice Chairman
	Anna Groskop	Conservative
	Michael Lewis	Conservative
	David Norris	Conservative
	William Wallace	Conservative
	Nick Weeks	Conservative	Chairman
	Colin Winder	Conservative

Area West Committee	16 members (exempt from political balance)
	Jason Baker	Lib Dem	Vice Chairman
	Mike Best	Lib Dem
	Amanda Broom	Lib Dem
	Carol Goodall	Lib Dem
	Val Keitch	Lib Dem	Chairman
	Jenny Kenton	Lib Dem
	Paul Maxwell	Lib Dem
	Ric Pallister	Lib Dem
	Garry Shortland	Lib Dem
	Angie Singleton	Lib Dem
	Dave Bulmer	Independent
	Andrew Turpin	Independent
	Marcus Barrett	Conservative
	Sue Osborne	Conservative
	Linda Vijeh	Conservative
	Martin Wale	Conservative

Scrutiny Committee	14 members (political balance)
2 Vice-Chairmen	Jason Baker	Lib Dem
LD7, C6, I1	John Clark	Lib Dem	Vice-Chairman
	Carol Goodall	Lib Dem
	1 vacancy	Lib Dem
	Mike Lock	Lib Dem
	Alan Smith	Lib Dem
	Rob Stickland	Lib Dem
	Dave Bulmer	Independent	Vice-Chairman
	John Field	Conservative
	David Norris	Conservative
	Sue Steele	Conservative	Chairman
	Gerard Tucker	Conservative
	Martin Wale	Conservative
	Colin Winder	Conservative

Audit Committee	10 members (political balance)
LD5, C5	Jason Baker	Lib Dem
	Mike Best	Lib Dem
	Val Keitch	Lib Dem
	Carol Goodall	Lib Dem
	Tony Lock	Lib Dem	Vice Chairman
	Anna Groskop	Conservative
	Graham Middleton	Conservative
	David Norris	Conservative
	Colin Winder	Conservative
	Derek Yeomans	Conservative	Chairman

Regulation Committee	14 members (political balance)
LD7, C6, I1	Mike Best (W)	Lib Dem
	Mike Lock (S)	Lib Dem
	Peter Gubbins (S)	Lib Dem	Chairman
	Tony Lock (S)	Lib Dem
	David Recardo(S)	Lib Dem
	Sylvia Seal (N)	Lib Dem
	Angie Singleton (W)	Lib Dem	Vice Chairman
	Tony Capozzoli (E)	Independent
	Clare Aparicio Paul (N)	Conservative
	Neil Bloomfield (N)	Conservative
	1 vacancy	Conservative
	Martin Wale (W)	Conservative
	Nick Weeks (E)	Conservative
	Colin Winder (E)	Conservative

Licensing Committee	15 members (exempt from political balance)
	Jason Baker	Lib Dem
	Val Keitch	Lib Dem
	Tony Lock	Lib Dem
	Crispin Raikes	Lib Dem	Vice Chairman
	Wes Read	Lib Dem
	David Recardo	Lib Dem	Chairman
	1 vacancy	Lib Dem
	Alan Smith	Lib Dem
	Dave Bulmer	Independent
	Neil Bloomfield	Conservative
	David Norris	Conservative
	1 vacancy	Conservative
	Linda Vijeh	Conservative
	Martin Wale	Conservative
	Nigel Gage	Conservative

Appointments Committee		8 members (political balance)
LD4, C3, I1	Ric Pallister		Lib Dem	Chairman
	Jo Roundell Greene		Lib Dem	Vice Chairman
	Sylvia Seal		Lib Dem
	Angie Singleton		Lib Dem
	Andrew Turpin		Independent
	Anna Groskop		Conservative
	Martin Wale		Conservative
	Mike Lewis		Conservative

Standards Committee	6 members (political balance)
(6 members,)	Crispin Raikes	Lib Dem
LD3, C3	Paul Maxwell	Lib Dem
	Angie Singleton	Lib Dem
	Nigel Gage	Conservative
	Neil Bloomfield	Conservative
	Anna Groskop	Conservative	Chairman

Plus 3 parish representatives and 2 independent representatives:
	Godfrey Townrow	Parish Rep
	Vacancy	Parish Rep
	Vacancy	Parish Rep
	Christopher Borland	Independent
	Peter Forrester	Independent

Recommendation (6) – to appoint the Chairmen and Vice-Chairmen of Member-Level Bodies

RESOLVED:

that the Chairmen and Vice-Chairmen of the bodies listed under recommendations (5) above be approved for 2018/19 as shown in that resolution.

Recommendation (7) - Terms of Reference of Member-Level Bodies

RESOLVED:

that the bodies appointed under recommendation (4) above will operate in accordance with their existing terms of reference (as attached at Appendix A to the report) and the scheme of delegation set out in Part 3 of the Constitution.

Recommendation (8) - Appointment to Council Wide Panels and Partnerships

RESOLVED:

that the following appointments be made to Council wide panels and partnerships:

Panel or Partnership	Councillors appointed	Party
Appeals Panel (political balance) LD4, C3, I1	Jason Baker Peter Gubbins Val Keitch Peter Seib Tony Capozzoli Hayward Burt Martin Wale Linda Vijeh	Lib Dem Lib Dem Lib Dem Lib Dem Ind Cons Cons Cons
Transformation Board	Jo Roundell Greene Ric Pallister Peter Seib John Clark Crispin Raikes Andrew Turpin Sue Steele Derek Yeomans	Lib Dem Lib Dem Lib Dem Lib Dem Lib Dem Ind Cons Cons
Strategic Development Board	Ric Pallister Jo Roundell Greene Angie Singleton Val Keitch Peter Gubbins Graham Middleton Nick Weeks	Lib Dem Lib Dem Lib Dem Lib Dem Lib Dem Cons Cons
Chard Regeneration Programme Board Yeovil Regeneration Programme Board Wincanton Regeneration Programme Board	To be appointed at a future Council meeting
Strategic Alliance with Sedgemoor	Ric Pallister Jo Roundell Greene Dave Bulmer Mike Lewis	Lib Dem Lib Dem Ind Cons
Income Generation Board	Henry Hobhouse Jason Baker Carol Goodall Val Keitch Crispin Raikes Tony Capozzoli	Lib Dem Lib Dem Lib Dem Lib Dem Lib Dem Ind
Local Strategic Partnership	Ric Pallister (Plus Area Chairmen are automatically members of the LSP)	Lib Dem
South West Internal Audit Partnership Ltd	David Norris	Cons
Housing and Exceptions Appeals Panel	Jo Roundell Greene Sylvia Seal	Lib Dem
Somerset Waste Board	Jo Roundell Greene Derek Yeomans	Lib Dem Conservative
PATROL Joint Committee (Parking and Traffic Regulation Outside London)	Tony Lock	Lib Dem
Somerset Growth Board	Jo Roundell Greene	Lib Dem

Recommendation (9) - Appointment to Outside Bodies

RESOLVED:	it was agreed to appoint members to the Council wide outside bodies as listed below and note that all other appointments to outside bodies would be made by the Area Committees for area specific issues.
	Organisation	Councillor appointed for 2018/19
	Board of Governors for Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	David Recardo
	Board of Governors for Musgrove Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	Sue Steele
	LGA General Assembly	Ric Pallister
	District Councils Network Executive	Ric Pallister
	South West Provincial Employers	Colin Winder
	South West Councils	Sylvia Seal
	Somerset Rivers Authority	Ric Pallister Nick Weeks (Sub)
	Parrett Drainage Board	Nick Weeks Mike Lewis Gerard Tucker
	Somerset Water Management Partnership	Nick Weeks
	Health & Well-Being Board	Sylvia Seal
	Safer Somerset Partnership	Tony Lock
	Police and Crime Panel	Martin Wale
	Somerset Building Preservation Trust	Colin Winder
	Armed Forces Community Covenant	Carol Goodall
	Somerset Local Access Forum	Paul Maxwell