Agenda item

Appointments to the Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Authority

Report (to follow) by the Associate Director, Corporate Office, Function and Procurement

 

Minutes:

The Chairman stated that she would take items 11 and 12 together and invited the Leader to propose a motion, drawing attention to the recommendations included in Agenda Supplement two.

 

Leader in proposing the motion stated that, in an amendment to the motion in the paper, that Councillor Mollie Groom become a full member of the Northern Area Planning Committee with Councllor Jacqui Lay as a substitute member.

 

Councillor Ernie Clark stated that the following substitute members should be added: Southern Area Planning Committee – Councillors George Jeans and Graham Wright;

Eastern Area Planning Committee – Councillors George Jeans and Graham Wright;  Western Area Planning Committee – Councillors George Jeans and Graham Wright; Licensing Committee – Councillor Graham Wright; Children’s Select Committee – Councillors Ernie Clark, Nick Fogg and Russell Hawker; Environment Select Committee Councillors Ernie Clark, George Jeans and Russell Hawker; Health Select Committee Councillors Ernie Clark, George Jeans and Russell Hawker; and Standards Committee – Councillors Nick Fogg and George Jeans.

 

Having been put to the vote, the meeting;

 

Resolved

 

(a)          Tonote this report and the legal requirements.

 

(b)          Tore-appointthe followingcommittees with the termsofreferenceas set outin the Constitution:-

 

·      AppealsCommittee

·      Area Planning Committees: Eastern, Northern, Southern andWestern

·      Audit Committee

·      Children’s Select Committee

·      EnvironmentSelect Committee

·      Health Select CommitteeH

·      ealthand WellbeingBoard

·      Licensing Committee

·      OfficerAppointments

·      Overviewand ScrutinyManagementCommittee

·      PensionFund Committee

·      Policeand Crime Panel

·      Staffing PolicyCommittee

·      StandardsCommittee

·      StrategicPlanning Committee

 

(c)Tore-appointthose Area Boards,constitutedas area committeesas set out in paragraphs13 to 15 and Appendix 1of the report presented and within theConstitution,to comprise the UnitaryCouncillorsfor thatarea.To re-appointthe Local Pension Boardestablishedunder the Public ServicePensions Act2013and consequent amendments to the LocalGovernmentPension Scheme Regulations2013with theterms of referenceas set out in the Constitution.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(d)         Toapprove ascheme of committee places which sets out thenumberofseatsavailable to membersofthe Council and to political groups as follows:

 

Committee

Total Number ofPlaces forElectedMembers

ConservativeGroupAllocation

 

 

(68seats)

LiberalDemocratGroupAllocation

 

(20seats)

LabourGroupAllocation

 

 

(3seats)

IndependentGroupAllocation

 

 

(7seats)

Strategic Planning

11

8

2

0

1

AreaPlanningCommittees;

North

11

8

3

0

0

South

11

7

1

1

2

East

8

7

0

0

1

West

11

7

3

0

1

Licensing

12

8

3

0

1

OverviewandScrutinyManagement

15

10

3

1

1

Children’sSelect

 

13

 

9

 

3

 

0

 

1

EnvironmentSelect

13

8

3

1

1

HealthSelect

13

9

3

0

1

Standards

11

8

2

0

1

PoliceandCrimePanel

7

5

2

0

0

Audit

11

8

2

1

0

Appeals

8

5

2

0

1

StaffingPolicy

9

6

2

1

0

OfficerAppointments

5

4

1

0

0

PensionFund

5

4

1

0

0

TOTALS:

174

121

(120.735)

36

(35.510)

5

(5.327)

12

(12.429)


(e)         Toappoint councillors to serve on those committeesin accordance with the agreed scheme of committee places, until the next occasion membership isreviewed under the provisions of theLocal Government & Housing Act 1989 (as attached).

 

(f)           Toappointsubstitutemembers (to a maximumoffour per group)to thecommittees referred toin (A) above(as attached).

 

(g)         Toappointthose councillors representing electoral divisions to their respectivearea boardsas set out in Appendix 1ofthe report

 

(h)         Todelegate to the Standards Committee the appointment of four non-voting co-optedmembers, and to delegate the arrangements for selection ofsuchmembers to the MonitoringOfficer in consultationwith the Chairman oftheStandards Committee

(i)           Toappointthefollowing persons asIndependent Persons eachfor afour yearterm:

Mr TonyDrew

MrsCaroline Baynes

Mr Stuart Middleton(please note changefrom papers circulated)

and tothank Mr ColinMalcolm for his excellent service tothe Council for the past5 years as an Independent Person and to MrTony Drewand MrsCaroline Baynes for their continuedexcellentservice.

(j)           Toreappointthefollowing non-electedmembers to the Children’s Select Committee:-

 

 

Non-ElectedVotingMembers

Representing

Vacancy

ChurchofEngland

DrMike Thompson

CliftonDioceseRoman CatholicChurch

Vacancy

ParentGovernor(Secondary- maintained)

Vacancy

ParentGovernor(Secondary –academy)

Vacancy

ParentGovernor(Special EducationalNeeds)

MsJillHughes

ParentGovernor(Primary)

Non-ElectedNon-VotingMembers

Representing

JamesWilkins

School,Childrenand YoungPeoplerepresentatives

Ms Cathy Shahrokni(SubstituteMs JenJones)

FurtherEducation Representative

MissSarahBusby

SecondarySchoolsHead teacherRepresentative

MissTracyCornelius

PrimarySchool Headteacher Representative

MrJohn Hawkins

SchoolTeacher Representative


(k)        To re-appoint thefollowingco-opted members to the Wiltshire Pension FundCommittee:

 

Name

Representing

currentlyCllr SteveWeisinger.

SwindonBoroughCouncillor (asdetermined bySwindonBorough Council)

currentlyCllr SteveAllsopp.

SwindonBoroughCouncillor (asdetermined bySwindonBorough Council)

DianeHall

EmployerRepresentative

LindaStuart

EmployerRepresentative

currentlyStuart Dark

SchemeMember Observer-appointed byUnison

currentlyMike Pankiewicz

SchemeMember Observer-appointed byUnison

 

 

(m) Tore-appoint the Local Pension Board under the PublicService Pensions Act 2013 andconsequent amendmentsto theLocalGovernmentPension Scheme Regulations 2013 withthe termsof referenceas set out inthe Constitution:

 

Name

Representing

HowardPearce

IndependentChairman

DavidBowater

SchemeMember Representative

BarryReed

SchemeMember Representative

MikePankiewicz

SchemeMember Representative

SarahHolbrook

EmployerMemberRepresentative

LyndaCroft

EmployerMemberRepresentative

*Vacancy

EmployerMemberRepresentative

 

 

*and toappoint CouncillorRichardBritton tothe vacantposition of EmployerMemberRepresentative

 

(n)   ToappointChairmenandVice-Chairmen of thefollowing meetings:

 

 

Committee

Chairman

Vice-Chairman

Area PlanningCommitteeEastern

MarkConnolly

PaulOatway

Area PlanningCommitteeNorthern

TonyTrotman

PeterHutton

Area PlanningCommitteeSouthern

FredWestmoreland

RichardBritton

Area PlanningCommitteeWestern

ChristopherNewbury

JonathonSeed

AuditCommittee

RichardBritton

StewartDobson

Health andWellbeingBoard(Chairmanonly)

BaronessScott ofBybrookOBE

 

Licensing Committee

PeterHutton

JosieGreen


 

Committee

Chairman

Vice-Chairman

OfficerAppointments

BaronessScott ofBybrookOBE

John Thomson

Pension Fund Committee

Tony Deane

RoyWhile

Staffing PolicyCommittee

AllisonBucknell

Tony Jackson

Standards Committee

PaulOatway

HowardGreenman

StrategicPlanning Committee

Fleur de-Rhé-Philipe

DerekBrown

 

 

(o)  TonotethattheOverviewand ScrutinyManagementCommittee,the SelectCommittees, andthe Policeand CrimePanelwillbe askedto electtheir respectiveChairmenand Vice-Chairmenat theirfirst meetingfollowingthe annualmeetingofcouncil.Area Boards have each been convenedtomeet on therisingofthisCouncilmeetingto electtheirrespectiveChairmenand Vice-Chairmen.

 

(p)  TonotethattheAppealsCommittee doesnotmeetas aformalcommittee.However,three memberswhohaveundergoneappropriatetraining aredrawnfromits membership toform AppealPanels toconsiderand determine varioustypesofappeals.Noappointmentofchairmanor vice-chairmantothe committeeis thereforenecessary.Each panelwhenconvenedwillelect itsownchairman.

 

(q)  ThatCouncilappointthe following10 membersto serveas Councilrepresentatives onthe Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Authority:

 

Conservatives (7)

 

PeterHutton

Liberal Democrat (2)

 

Bob Jones

Independent(1)

 

Ernie Clark

PipRidout

BrianDalton

 

AndrewDavis

 

 

PaulOatway

 

 

ChristopherNewbury

 

 

RobertYuill

 

 

MatthewDean

 

 

 

 

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