Issue - meetings

To submit the report of the Head of Democracy.

 

·         To adopt the list of committees and sub-committees to be established for the municipal year, as noted in Appendix A (below), together with the adoption of the seat allocation and the senior salaries set out in the Appendix.

·         To delegate the authority to the Head of Democracy Services to make appointments to the committees on the basis of political balance, and in accordance with the wishes of the political groups.

·         To allocate the chairpersonships of scrutiny committees on the basis of political balance as follows:-

 

Education and Economy Scrutiny Committee - Plaid Cymru Group

Communities Scrutiny Committee – Plaid Cymru Group

Care Scrutiny Committee - Independent Group

 

·        To adopt the seat allocation for the North Wales Corporate Joint Committee Overview and Scrutiny Joint Committee for the term of this Council unless there is a significant change in the political balance – there is 1 seat for the Plaid Cymru Group and 1 seat for the Independent Group

 

APPENDIX A - ALLOCATION OF SEATS ON COMMITTEES

 

A	Plaid Cymru	Independent	Labour Liberal	Total
Education and Economy Scrutiny Committee	12	6	0	18
Communities Scrutiny Committee	12	5	1	18
Care Scrutiny Committee	12	5	1	18
Governance and Audit	8	4	0	12

 

B	Plaid Cymru	Independent	Labour Liberal	Total
Democratic Services	10	4	1	15
Planning	10	4	1	15
Central / General Licensing	10	5	0	15
Language	10	5	0	15
Chief Officers Appointment	10	5	0	15
Employment Appeals	5	2	0	7
Number of seats	99	45	4	148

 

 

C	Plaid Cymru	Independent	Labour Liberal	Total
Pensions	4	2	1	7
Local Joint Consultative Committee	7	4	0	11
SACRE	5	2	0	7

 

Total seats

115

53

5

173

 

 

 

 

Senior Salaries

In accordance with the previous decision of the Council, the senior salaries are paid as follows:

· Leader

· Deputy Leader

· 8 other Cabinet members

· The Leader of the largest Opposition

· Committee Chairs

- Scrutiny Committee (x3)     

- Planning Committee

- Licensing Committee (Central and General counts as one Committee)

- Pensions Committee

 

·         Civic head (Chair of the Council)

§    Deputy civic head (Vice-chair of the Council)

 

The Democracy and Language Services Manager presented a report setting out the annual review of the Council’s political balance.

 

The Leader of the Independent Group noted that in order to ensure succession, it was vital that the vice-chairpersonship of each scrutiny committee went to the same group as the chairpersonship.  In response, the Monitoring Officer noted:-

·         That the scrutiny committees were unique because the chairpersonships were allocated on the basis of statutory political balance.

·         That the chairpersonships and other vice-chairpersonships, and the vice-chairpersonships of the scrutiny committees were a decision for the individual committees in statute.

 

It was noted that there had been a number of vacant seats on committees for years and the Democracy Services Committee was asked to look into that.

 

RESOLVED

 

·         To adopt the list of committees and sub-committees to be established for the municipal year as noted in Appendix A (below), and adopt the allocation of seats
and senior salaries as noted in the Appendix.

·         To delegate the authority to the Head of Democracy Services to make appointments to the committees on the basis of political balance, and in accordance with the wishes of the political groups.

·         To allocate the chairpersonships of scrutiny committees on the basis of political balance as follows:-

 

Education and Economy Scrutiny Committee - Plaid Cymru Group

Communities Scrutiny Committee – Plaid Cymru Group

Care Scrutiny Committee - Independent Group

 

·           To adopt the seat allocation for the North Wales Corporate Joint Committee Overview and Scrutiny Joint Committee for the term of this Council unless there is a significant change in the political balance – there is 1 seat for the Plaid Cymru Group and 1 seat for the Independent Group

 

APPENDIX A - ALLOCATION OF SEATS ON COMMITTEES

 

A	Plaid Cymru	Independent	Labour / Liberal	Total
Education and Economy Scrutiny Committee	12	6	0	18
Communities Scrutiny Committee	12	5	1	18
Care Scrutiny Committee	12	5	1	18
Governance and Audit	8	4	0	12

 

B	Plaid Cymru	Independent	Labour / Liberal	Total
Democracy Services	10	4	1	15
Planning	10	4	1	15
Central / General Licensing	10	5	0	15
Language	10	5	0	15
Chief Officers Appointment	10	5	0	15
Employment Appeals	5	2	0	7
Number of seats	99	45	4	148

 

C	Plaid Cymru	Independent	Labour / Liberal	Total
Pensions	4	2	1	7
Local Joint Consultative Committee	7	4	0	11
SACRE	5	2	0	7

 

Total seats

115

53

5

173

 

 

 

 

Senior Salaries

In accordance with the previous decision of the Council, the senior salaries are paid as follows:

· Leader

· Deputy Leader

· 8 other Cabinet members

· The Leader of the largest Opposition

· Committee Chairs

- Scrutiny Committee (x3)        

- Planning Committee

- Licensing Committee (Central and General counts as one Committee)

- Pensions Committee

 

·         Civic head (Chair of the Council)

·         Deputy civic head (Vice-chair of the Council)