Issue - meetings

The Council considered a report detailing the proposed composition of the Council’s Scrutiny, Regulatory and Other Committees and the appointment of members to serve upon them. It was noted that any membership changes proposed by the political groups were highlighted within the report.

In accordance with the constitution the Council is required to appoint members to serve on its committees and to allocate those seats so that they reflect the overall political composition of the Council.

Having considered the new political structure of the Authority and in order to ensure that there was a full allocation of seats available for distribution amongst the political groups and unaffiliated members, it was recommended that the calculation for the distribution of seats on committees be increased by 1 from 167 (as agreed by the previous Council) to 168 with the number of seats available on Scrutiny Committees increasing from 67 to 68.  Changes were also recommended to the number of members on individual regulatory and other committees in order to best represent the political balance of the new Council, thus ensuring that all seats are allocated on a politically balanced basis, with the seats on committees also being allocated to reflect, as far as possible, the political balance of the Council as a whole.

The following nominations had been received from the Leader of the Labour Group for the remaining committee vacancies:-

- Councillor John Prosser to sit on the Dyfed Pension Fund Committee

- Councillor John James to be a substitute member of the Housing Review Panel

- Councillor Louvain Roberts to site on the Planning Committee

There were no additional membership changes.

RESOLVED

14.1    to increase the total number of seats available on committees by 1       from 167 to 168 seats;

14.2    following the adoption of 14.1 above, to increase the number of seats on Scrutiny Committees from 67 to 68;

14.3    that the composition and membership of the Council’s Regulatory,      Scrutiny and Other Committees for the 2017/18 Municipal Year, as set   out in Appendix 1 to the report, including the above-mentionednominations from the Labour Group, be approved.