Agenda item

The Council considered a report of the Head of Legal and Democratic Services detailing appointments to joint and other bodies for 2016/17 (for copy see file of Minutes).

Moved by Councillor Henig, Seconded by Councillor Napier

Resolved:

(a)            That the Council agrees the allocation of seats on the joint body detailed in Appendix 1.

(b)            That the Council agrees the allocation of the memberships of the bodies detailed in Appendix 2.

(c)            That the Head of Legal and Democratic Services, in consultation with the appropriate Group Leader(s), be authorised to make appointments to the other outside bodies to which the Council are invited to nominate, in accordance with the following criteria:-

(i)              identify those organisations whose purpose is aligned to a specific Cabinet Portfolio, and nominate Members accordingly.

(ii)             identify local outside bodies from each electoral division and allocate those to local members.  If there are more seats on an outside body than local members then the political balance would be applied.  For those local bodies which are strategic in nature representation by a specific Cabinet Portfolio would be appropriate.

if a consensus on the allocation of seats to Members within the electoral division could not be reached, should the division be represented by Members from different parties and agreement could not be reached, the party with the largest proportion of seats on the Council would be allocated the seat.

(iii)           the remaining bodies, which are not local to a particular electoral division, for example, those with a County or Regional remit, appointments be made in accordance with the overall political proportionality of the Council, except in the case of Housing Associations and bodies providing services in one particular locality, in such circumstances the membership would be from that locality.  This does not include appointments to the County Durham Housing Group Board.

(d)            That a similar delegated authority be granted to allow any changes to be made to memberships of the main outside bodies/ joint bodies approved by Council, which may become necessary during the course of 2016/17, again in consultation with the appropriate Group Leader(s).

(e)            That the allocation of seats on the Chartered Trust be agreed as detailed in Appendix 3.

(f)             That Councillor N Foster be appointed as the Cabinet Member to serve on the Charter Trustees

(g)            That the allocation of seats on the Police and Crime Panel be agreed as detailed in Appendix 4.

(h)            That Councillor E Bell be appointed to serve on the Joint Audit Committee to assist the Police and Crime Commissioner and Chief Constable, noting the nomination would be subject to approval of the Police and Crime Commissioner.

Moved by Councillor C Marshall, Seconded by Councillor A Laing

Resolved:

Appointments be made to the positions on the North East Combined Authority as follows:

(a)            The Council Representative of the North East Leadership Board (NELB) – Councillor S Henig

(b)            Substitute member to the NELB – Councillor A Napier

(c)            Two members to the Transport North East Committee (TNEC) – Councillors N Foster and E Tomlinson

(d)            Substitute member to the TNEC – Councillor J Allen

(e)            One member to the Governance Committee – Councillor E Bell

(f)              Substitute member to the Governance Committee – Councillor K Shaw

(g)            Two members to be representatives on the Overview and Scrutiny Committee – Councillors J Armstrong and R Crute

(h)            One member to the Economic Development and Regeneration Advisory Board – Councillor N Foster

(i)              Substitute member to the Economic Development and Regeneration Advisory Board – Councillor E Tomlinson

It was further Moved by Councillor C Marshall, Seconded by Councillor A Laing

Resolved:

1.           That Councillors D Boyes and E Tomlinson be the two members nominated to serve on the County Durham Housing Group Board.

2.          That the Head of Legal and Democratic Services, in consultation with the appropriate Group Leader(s) be authorised to make appointments to the County Durham Housing Group Board during the course of 2016/17, if necessary once the outcome of the governance review of the Board is clear.