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Management Structure

Meeting: 03/11/2017 - Full Council (Item 200)

200 Appointments & Remuneration Panel: Terms of Reference pdf icon PDF 56 KB

To seek Council approval to the Terms of Reference for the agreed Appointments and Remuneration Committee.

 

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Minutes:

At this juncture, the Interim Head of Paid Service and the Monitoring Officer left the meeting.

 

The Leader presented the report and advised that following the departure of the former Chief Executive it was now time to confirm the management arrangements of the Council which was hoped to be formalised in the New Year.  He advised that the establishment of the Appointments & Remuneration Committee was the next stage of this.

 

Councillor Hook as the original proposer of the motion to establish the committee was pleased to see the proposals before Council and believed it would add to the openness and transparency of the Council’s operations.  Councillor Hook proposed an amendment to recommendation B, so that it read as follows:

 

That the Monitoring Officer be authorised to make adjustments to the Constitution to give effect to the Council decision, but that all such amendments to the constitution be approved by Full Council.

 

The amendment was seconded by Councillor Dewhirst.

 

Councillor Haines spoke in support of the amendment.

 

Councillor Barker sought clarification as a recommendation to authorise the change to the constitution that brings into effect the decision was required.

 

Councillor Connett suggested that substitute members be appointed by group leaders rather than by the council as the report currently read.

 

Following extensive debate, Councillors Hook and Dewhirst agreed to withdraw the amendment and it was

 

Resolved

 

(a)  That the draft Terms of Reference for the Appointments and Remuneration Committee be approved, subject to substitutes being appointed Group Leaders and not the Council;

(b)  That the Monitoring Officer be authorised to make adjustments to the Constitution to give effect to the Council decision.

 

At this juncture, the Interim Head of Paid Service and the Monitoring Officer re-joined the meeting.

 

The Monitoring Officer advised that he currently had delegated authority to make minor amendments to the Constitution following consultation with Group Leaders.  Any major changes to the constitution that would infringe the rights of the public and Councillors were reserved for approval by all members through a meeting of the Full Council.