ELECTION OF CHAIRMAN
To decide on the election of a Chairman for 2020/21.
Decision:
To not proceed to appoint a Chair,
and allow the current Chair to continue in post until the 2021 Annual Meeting.
Minutes:
The Council was
asked to elect a Chair for 2020/21.
The Monitoring
Officer explained that the Local Authorities (Coronavirus) (Meetings) (Wales)
Regulations 2020, in response to the crisis, allowed a range of changes in the
way the Council's democratic arrangements were administrated, which included
permission for the Council to extend the term of the current Chair and
Vice-chair. Therefore, the need to appoint could be waived and the current
Chair and Vice-chair could be allowed to remain in post until the 2021 Annual
Meeting at the latest.
It was proposed
and seconded not to proceed to appoint a Chair, and to allow the current Chair
to remain in post until the 2021 Annual Meeting.
In response to a
question, the proposer explained that the logic behind his proposal was that
the current Chair had not been in post for a full year as a result of the
pandemic, and that appointing a new chair would mean that the person would only
have 6 months of chairmanship.
RESOLVED not to proceed to appoint a
Chair, and to allow the current Chair to remain in post until the 2021 Annual
Meeting.