Agenda and minutes

(1)        Mr A J King moved, seconded by Mr A H T Bowles that Mrs P A V Stockell be elected Chairman for the meeting.

                                                            Motion carried with no opposition

(2)       Mrs Stockell thereupon assumed the Chair.

RESOLVED that the Minutes of the meeting held on 13 March 2009 are correctly recorded and that they be signed by the Chairman.

(1)       A supplementary report setting out revised details of Committee, Sub-Committee and Advisory Board proportionality had been circulated prior to the meeting. 

(2)       The Committee agreed that the 11 Non KCC Members of the existing Children and Families POC should be consulted in order to establish which of the three new Children and Families POCs they wished to serve on.

(3)       The Committee agreed to recommend that where the Labour Group requested a seat on a Select Committee, every effort would be made to accommodate this wish.

(4)       The Committee agreed to defer consideration of Outside Body appointments and proportionality representation on Other Authorities, Joint Committees and Partnership Boards to its next meeting. 

(5)       The Committee made an exception to its decision in (4) above in respect of voting entitlements at the LGA AGM.  It was agreed that the Conservative Group representative(s) would have 11 votes and the Liberal Democrat Group representative 1.

(6)       The Committee deferred consideration of the Members’ Conference Budget to the next meeting of the Committee and asked for the figures to be broken down on a Member by Member basis once the sums for the LGA AGM, the County Councils’ Network AGM and the LGA Annual Finance Conference had been subtracted from the overall total.

(7)       RESOLVED that:-

(a)               the County Council be recommended to agree the proposed allocation of Committee, Sub-Committee and Advisory Board places set out in the revised report;

(b)               the Governor Appointments Panel be reconstituted;

(c)               the Conservative Group be allocated 11 votes at the LGA AGM and the Liberal Democrat Group 1 vote;

(d)               consideration of Outside Body appointments and proportionality representation on Other Authorities, Joint Committees and Partnership Boards be deferred to the next meeting of the Committee;

(e)               the 11 Non KCC Members of the existing Children and Families POC be consulted in order to establish which of the three new Children and Families POCs they wish to serve on;

(f)                 the County Council be recommended to agree that where the Labour Group requests a seat on a Select Committee, every effort will be made to accommodate this wish;

(g)               the list of appointments to outside bodies to be made by the Leader of the Council, once elected be noted; and

(h)               consideration of the Members’ Conference Budget be deferred to the next meeting of the Committee.

RESOLVED that Mr Paul Myers and Mr Owen Poole be appointed to serve as Parent Governors on the Cabinet Scrutiny Committee (when it considers education matters) and on one of the three Children, Families and Education Policy Overview Committees for a four year period ending on 1 May 2013.

RESOLVED that consideration of this matter be deferred until the next meeting of the Committee.