Issue - meetings

The Chairman again introduced the report and advised the Chamber that in light of the political re-set of the Council, the newly appointed Administration had requested that a number of outside body appointments be revisited along with the membership of the Joint Staff Consultative Committee, which sat outside of the political balance rules.

Members were advised that the published report had contained some blanks where nominations had still been awaited and these were listed aloud to the Chamber.

The awaited nominations for three of the outstanding bodies were provided verbally to the meeting, as follows: -

·       Central Lincolnshire Joint Strategic Planning Committee (reserve Member) – Councillor Stephen Bunney;

·       Rural Services Network (SPARSE) – Councillor Jackie Brockway

·       Trustees of the Charles Cooper Trust – Councillor Matthew Boles

The Leader requested additional time to provide the remaining outstanding nominations, and again it was suggested that a motion delegating authority to the Head of Paid service to fill the vacancies, post the meeting of Council, on notification from the Leader be passed.  Having been proposed and seconded, including the suggested addition it was RESOLVED that:

a)     Members be Appointed to the Outside Bodies, in accordance

        with the provisions set out at Section 1.3 (i) – (iv), and in line with the nominations detailed in the table at Appendix 1 of the publish report and provided verbally at the meeting, including two new outside bodies namely: -

*     LGA Special Interest Group – Internal Drainage Boards

*     STEP Strategic Collaboration Group

(b)    Members detailed in Section 2.3 of the report be appointed to the Joint Staff Consultative Committee until May 2027 namely;

Members

(c)    delegated authority be granted to the Head of Paid Service to fill the remaining Outside Body vacancies, on notification from the Leader.