Agenda and minutes

RESOLVED that the Minutes of the meetings held on 1 March 2017 and 25 May 2017 are correctly recorded and that they be signed by the Chairman.

RESOLVED to note that the County Council will be reassessed for the Member Development Charter Plus on Thursday, 28 September 2017 and that:-

(1)                      the draft Elected Member Development Policy Statement be recommended for approval to the County Council; and

(2)        the Member Development Steering Group be reconstituted.

(1)          Appendices setting out the County-wide and Local Outside Bodies had been published and circulated to Members prior to the meeting.

(2)       The Committee noted that the Royal School for Deaf Children had been included in the list of Local Outside Bodies in error.  

(3)       During discussion of this item, the Committee agreed to:-

(a)          appoint Mr P Hill to serve on the Kent Big Society Investment Panel instead of Mrs S Hohler;

(b)           appoint Mr D Farrell as the Labour Group’s representative on the LGA General Assembly; and

(c)          appoint Mr D Farrell as the Labour Group’s representative on the University of Kent Court. The remaining 5 vacancies would be filled by the Conservative Group (4 representatives) and the Liberal Democrat Group (1 representative) and notified to the Head of Democratic Services. 

(4)       RESOLVED that:-

(a)          appointments and nominations to Outside Bodies be made as set out in the Appendix to these Minutes;

(b)           the appointments made by the Leader be notified to the Committee in due course;

(c)          the Chairman of the Superannuation Fund Committee be appointed as the County Council’s representative on the ACCESS Joint Committee;

(d)          Mrs M Crabtree be appointed as the County Council’s representative and Chairman of the Pension Board, with Mrs R Binks as the County Council’s second representative; and

(e)          the appointment of Mr K Garsed and Mr A Roy be confirmed as Parent Governor representatives on the Scrutiny Committee for a four year term.

(1)       The report had been published and made available to Members of the Committee prior to the meeting.

(2)       The Chairman agreed that this item should be considered as an Urgent Item as the Independent Member Remuneration Panel’s finalised report and recommendations were due to be presented to the County Council for its consideration on 13 July 2017. 

(3)       The Committee noted that the Independent Panel had not yet finalised its report and asked that the Hays Corn Ferry report be circulated for discussion to each of the political groups and that any further comments groups wished to make would be passed onto the Panel for consideration.  

(4)       RESOLVED that the report be noted.

EXEMPT ITEMS

(Open access to Minutes)

The Committee resolved under Section 100A of the Local Government Act 1972 to exclude the public for the following business on the grounds that it involved the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraphs 1 and 2 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act.

(1)       Copies of the report had been circulated to Members prior to the meeting.

(2)       The Chairman agreed to treat this as an Urgent item on the grounds that the Opposition Groups and affected members of staff needed clarity on the level of support that would be provided. 

(3)       The Cabinet Member for Corporate and Democratic Services set out a proposal for the resources to support the Opposition Groups.  

(4)       RESOLVED that:-

(a)       the proposed support for the Opposition Groups set out in the report be recommended to the Cabinet Member for Corporate and Democratic Services;  and

(b)       a report on the proposed support for Cabinet Members, non- executive Members and the Members Area (including the Information Point) be considered at the next meeting of the Committee.