To receive Report No.78/2020 from the Strategic Director for Resources.

Report No. 78/2020 was received from the Monitoring Officer.

The Monitoring Officer, Mr. P Horsfield, introduced the report and then handed over to Mrs Briggs who read out a proposed amendment by the opposition group leaders, Councillor Waller and Councillor Oxley. The amendment confirmed that the political balance calculations were correct but that the group leaders, with the agreement of the Leader of the Council Councillor Hemsley, wished to change the allocation of seats so that the Liberal Democrats took up one of the seats on the Adults and Health Scrutiny Committee which had originally been allocated to the Independent Group. To maintain their correct allocation of 12 seats overall the Independent Group would take up an additional seat on the Conduct Committee, replacing the Liberal Democrat allocated seat.  

Councillor Hemsley proposed the recommendations in the report, subject to the amendment to the allocation of seats, and this was seconded by Councillor MacCartney.

The chair asked whether there was any one who was not in favour and as no-one indicated that that was the case, the recommendations were agreed.

RESOLVED

Council:

1.    Appointed the Scrutiny Committees and Standing Committees for the Municipal Year 2020/21.

2.    Approved the political balance calculation as contained within the report.

3.    Approved the allocation of seats to Political Groups and notes the membership of each committee as set out in Appendix A of the report but subject to the amendment proposed and agreed.