Decision details
ESTABLISHMENT OF APPOINTMENTS SUB-COMMITTEE - RECRUITMENT OF CHIEF EXECUTIVE/HEAD OF PAID SERVICE
Decision Maker: Council
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
Decision:
The Council considered a report of the Service Head, Human Resources and Workforce Development on the above matter. The special circumstances and reasons for urgency were agreed as set out in the report.
Councillor David Snowdon moved, and Councillor Craig Aston seconded, a tabled amendment to the recommendations in the report.
The amendment and the substantive recommendations as amended, were put to the vote and were agreed unanimously.
DECISION
1. To confirm the extension made by the Service Head HR and WD to the notice period of the Interim Head of Paid Service from 14th January until 23rd January 2013.
2. To invite Stephen Halsey to act as Head of Paid Service, retaining his role as Corporate Director CLC and with the following powers, until October 31st 2014
Non-Executive functions
· Head of Paid Service (Local Government & Housing Act 1989)
· Officer with delegated power to approve premises for the solemnisation of marriages (Marriage Act 1949)
· Community Governance – various functions relating to Community Governance Reviews under the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007
· Power to appoint staff below Deputy Chief Officer level (Local Government Act 1972, section 112)
· Powers relating to the preservation of trees (Town & Country Planning Act 1990)
· Crime prevention policies and measures (London Local Authorities (No. 2) Act 1990)
· Gratuities to non-pensionable employees (London County Council (General Powers) Act 1930)
· Expenses of councils in connection with ceremonies (London County Council (General Purposes) Act 1951, section 32)
· Compensation to persons in the Council’s service on abolition of office (London County Council (General Purposes) Act 1921) [subject to pay policy]
‘Proper Officer’ designations
The Head of Paid Service is designated as the “proper officer” for the following functions:
· S.83 (1) Local Government Act (LGA) 1972 – the person to whom the Mayor or a Councillor shall deliver her/his acceptance of office
· S.83 (3)b LGA 1972 – the officer before whom the Speaker of the Council and Deputy Speaker of Council make their declaration of acceptance of office
· S.88 (2) LGA 1972 – the officer who may call a Council meeting for the election to the vacant office of Speaker of Council
· S.4 LG&HA 1989 – the Head of Paid Service
· S.15 LG&HA 1989 – the officer to receive notices relating to the membership of political groups
· Schedule 12, Local Government Act 1972, Part 1 paragraph 4(2)(b) – summons to attend Council meeting.
Other delegations
· Section 4.1 of the constitution (Council Procedure Rules) contains various references to the Chief Executive as the officer who formally calls or may cancel Council and Committee meetings
3. To ask the Service Head, Democratic Services, to undertake the roles of Returning Officer (Representation of the People Act 1983, section 35) and the Electoral Registration Officer (Representation of the People Act 1983, section 8)
4. To ask the Head of Paid Service to continue to work with the LGA to review governance arrangements to ensure that they are robust
5. To defer the recruitment process for a CE until October 2014.
(Action by: Simon Kilbey, Service Head, Human Resources and Workforce Development)
Publication date: 05/02/2013
Date of decision: 23/01/2013
Decided at meeting: 23/01/2013 - Council