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Appointment of Member Level Bodies 2015/16

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Decision Maker: South Somerset District Council

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: Yes

Is subject to call in?: No

Decisions:

The Chairman explained the procedure to be followed on this item. He said thathe intended to take each of the recommendations in turn. Each of the Area Committees appointed their own chairmen and vice-chairmen and he would adjourn the Council meeting to allow the committees to meet and make these appointments.

Each of the recommendations was taken in turn.

Recommendation (1) - Appointment of Leader of the Council

Councillor Ric Pallister was proposed by Councillor David Recardo and seconded by Councillor Jo Roundell Greene. There being no other nominations it was:

RESOLVED:

that Councillor Ric Pallister be appointed as Leader of the Council for a period of four years, starting on the day of his election and ending on the day of the post 4-year Council election annual meeting.

Recommendation (2) - Appointment of Deputy Leader of the Council

Councillor Ric Pallister appointed Councillor Jo Roundell Greene as Deputy Leader of the Council It was therefore:

RESOLVED:

that Councillor Jo Roundell Greene be appointed 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.

Recommendation (3) - Appointment of District Executive Committee

The Leader of the Council moved the recommendation that the District Executive Committee be re-established. It was therefore:

RESOLVED:

that Council establish the District Executive Committee with the terms of reference as set out in Appendix A and with the powers and functions as set out in Part 3 of the Council’s Constitution.

(Voting: unanimous in favour)

Recommendation (4) - Appointment of membership of District Executive Committee

The Leader then appointed a further four strategic Portfolio Holders and allocated their Portfolio responsibilities as indicated.

It was noted that the four Area Committee Chairmen would be appointed by the members of each Area Committee at recommendation 7.

RESOLVED:	that the Leader appointed the following Members and Portfolio responsibilities for 2015/16;
	Ric Pallister	Lib Dem	Leader: Strategy and Policy (including Strategic Housing, Local Strategic Partnership, Human Resources, Efficiencies, Performance, Public Access).
	Jo Roundell Greene	Lib Dem	Deputy Leader and Vice-Chairman of the Executive: Environment and Economic Development (including, Regeneration, Streetscene, Waste, Tourism, Equalities and Diversity)
	Sylvia Seal	Lib Dem	Leisure and Culture (including Sport, Arts, Countryside, Health and Well-Being, Third Sector, Operational Housing and Welfare).
	Angie Singleton	Lib Dem	Strategic Planning (Place Making), (including Development Management, Area Development, Market Town Investment Group, Somerset Waste Partnership)
	Henry Hobhouse	Lib Dem	Property and Climate Change (including Strategic Transport, Property & Engineering, ICT and GIS.)
	Peter Seib	Lib Dem	Finance and Legal Services, (including Strategic Car Parking, Income, Revenues & Benefits, South West Audit Partnership and Procurement)
	Peter Gubbins	Lib Dem	Area South Chairman (Yeovil Vision, Community Safety, Licensing, Crematorium)
	Carol Goodall	Lib Dem	Area West Chairman (Environmental Health, Health and Safety, Democratic Services, Member Training)
	Shane Pledger	Cons	Area North Chairman (Building Control, Listed Buildings)
	Nick Weeks	Con	Area East Chairman (Civil Contingencies, Heritage)

Recommendation (5) – Re-establishment and Appointment other member level bodies for 2015/16

RESOLVED: that the following member-level bodies be re-established for 2015/16:

Scrutiny Committee (14 members)

Audit Committee (10 members)

4 Area Committees (geographical representation)

Regulation Committee (14 members)

Licensing Committee (15 members)

Appointments Committee (8 members)

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

(Voting: unanimous in favour)

Recommendation (6) - Appoint Members to Member-Level Bodies

In response to a question, the Assistant Director (Legal and Corporate Services) confirmed that the Audit Committee and Standards Committee could be a 50/50 split of seats between the Liberal Democrat and Conservative Councillors with no Independent representative, however, having regard to the nature of the work of these Committees it was proposed that there be one. It was also felt that an Independent representative was more important on the Appointments Committee although the proportionality did not quite add up.

Councillor Tim Inglefield proposed that the balance be equal on the Audit and Standards Committees. This was seconded by Councillor David Norris and on being put to the vote, was carried (voting: 28 in favour, 16 against, 9 abstentions).

RESOLVED: that the memberships of the bodies established as in recommendation (5) be approved as follows for 2015/16 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
	Tiffany Osborne	Conservative
	Shane Pledger	Conservative	Chairman
	Dean Ruddle	Conservative	Vice Chairman
	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 Bracher	Lib Dem
	Henry Hobhouse	Lib Dem
	Tony Capozzoli	Independent
	Mike Beech	Conservative
	Nick Colbert	Conservative
	Anna Groskop	Conservative
	Tim Inglefield	Conservative
	Michael Lewis	Conservative	Vice Chairman
	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
	Mike Best	Lib Dem
	Carol Goodall	Lib Dem	Chairman
	Val Keitch	Lib Dem
	Jenny Kenton	Lib Dem	Vice Chairman
	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
	Amanda Broom	Conservative
	Sue Osborne	Conservative
	Linda Vijeh	Conservative
	Martin Wale	Conservative

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

Standards Committee	6 members (political balance)
(6 members,)	Val Keitch		Lib Dem		Vice Chairman
LD3, C3	Paul Maxwell		Lib Dem
	Angie Singleton		Lib Dem
	Vacancy		Conservative
	Neil Bloomfield		Conservative
	Anna Groskop		Conservative		Chairman

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

Regulation Committee	14 members (political balance)
LD7, C6, I1	Mike Best (W)			Lib Dem
	Sarah Dyke Bracher (E)			Lib Dem
	Peter Gubbins (S)			Lib Dem	Chairman
	Graham Oakes(S)			Lib Dem
	David Recardo(S)			Lib Dem
	Sylvia Seal (N)			Lib Dem
	Angie Singleton (W)			Lib Dem	Vice Chairman
	Tony Capozzoli (E)			Independent
	Sue Osborne (W)			Conservative
	Shane Pledger (N)			Conservative
	Clare Paul (N)			Conservative
	Dean Ruddle (N)			Conservative
	Gina Seaton (S)			Conservative
	Nick Weeks (E)			Conservative

Licensing Committee	15 members (exempt from political balance)
	Jason Baker		Lib Dem
	Val Keitch		Lib Dem
	Jenny Kenton		Lib Dem
	Tony Lock		Lib Dem
	Crispin Raikes		Lib Dem
	Wes Read		Lib Dem
	David Recardo		Lib Dem		Vice Chairman
	Garry Shortland		Lib Dem
	Alan Smith		Lib Dem
	Dave Bulmer		Independent
	Neil Bloomfield		Conservative
	David Norris		Conservative
	Clare Aparicio Paul		Conservative
	Linda Vijeh		Conservative
	Martin Wale		Conservative		Chairman

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
	Tim Inglefield		Conservative
	Martin Wale		Conservative
	Colin Winder		Conservative

Scrutiny Committee	14 members (political balance)
2 Vice-Chairmen	Jason Baker		Lib Dem
LD7, C6, I1	John Clark		Lib Dem		Vice-Chairman
	Val Keitch		Lib Dem
	Tony Lock		Lib Dem
	David Recardo		Lib Dem
	Garry Shortland		Lib Dem
	Rob Stickland		Lib Dem
	Dave Bulmer		Independent		Vice-Chairman
	Gye Dibben		Conservative
	Sue Osborne		Conservative
	Tiffany Osborne		Conservative
	Clare Aparicio Paul		Conservative
	Sue Steele		Conservative		Chairman
	Martin Wale		Conservative

Recommendation (7) - Chairmen and Vice-Chairmen of Member-Level Bodies

(The Council meeting was then adjourned to allow the Area Committees to meet to appoint their own Chairmen, who would then be members of the District Executive as detailed in resolution (4), and Vice-Chairmen).

RESOLVED: that the Chairmen and Vice-Chairmen of the bodies listed under recommendations (6) above be approved for 2015/16 as shown in that resolution.

Recommendation (8) - Terms Of Reference

RESOLVED: that the bodies appointed under recommendation (5) 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.

(Voting: unanimous in favour)

Recommendation (9) - Appointment to Council Wide Panels And Partnerships

RESOLVED: that the following appointments be made to Council wide panels and partnerships as listed in paragraph 3 of the report:

Appeals Panel	8 members (political balance)
LD4, C3, I1	Jason Baker	Lib Dem
	Peter Gubbins	Lib Dem
	Val Keitch	Lib Dem
	Peter Seib	Lib Dem
	Tony Capozzoli	Independent
	David Norris	Conservative
	Shane Pledger	Conservative
	Linda Vijeh	Conservative

South Somerset Together (LSP)

Ric Pallister

Lib Dem

(Plus Area Chairmen are automatically members of the LSP)

South West Internal Audit Partnership

Derek Yeomans

Cons

Housing and Exceptions Appeals Panel

Jo Roundell Greene

Ric Pallister

Lib Dem

Police and Crime Panel

Martin Wale

Cons

Somerset Waste Board

Jo Roundell Greene

Angie Singleton

Lib Dem

PATROL (Parking and Traffic regulations outside London) Joint Committee

Tony Lock

Lib Dem

Somerset Growth Board

Jo Roundell Greene

Lib Dem

Recommendation (10) - Appointment to Outside Bodies

The Leader of Council advised that the appointment of representatives to the Parrett Drainage Board and the Somerset Water Management Partnership would be deferred for further discussion between the 3 Group Leaders as the appointments were key to the delivery of the Somerset Flooding Summit recommendations.

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 2015/16	Party
Board of Governors for Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	David Recardo	Lib Dem
Board of Governors for Musgrove Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	Sue Steele	Cons
LGA General Assembly	Ric Pallister	Lib Dem
LGA Gypsy Working Group	Ric Pallister	Lib Dem
Parrett Drainage Board	To be agreed
South West Provincial Employers	Colin Winder	Cons
South West Councils	Sylvia Seal	Lib Dem
Health & Well-Being Board	Sylvia Seal	Lib Dem
Somerset Water Management Partnership	To be agreed
Somerset Building Preservation Trust	Shane Pledger	Cons
Somerset Rivers Authority	Ric Pallister	Lib Dem
Access for All	Mike Lock	Lib Dem