Issue - meetings
Appointment Sub-Committee - Membership
Meeting: 11/12/2018 - General Purposes Committee (Item 4)
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Minutes:
The Committee noted that at its meeting on 25 June 2018 it had agreed to the establishment of the Appointments Sub-Committee (and its terms of reference) for the municipal year 2018/19. This report proposed a minor amendment to those terms of reference in order to increase the membership of the Sub-Committee so as to allow a wider range of Councillors to take part in the meetings.
The Committee noted that:
· This report proposes an amendment to the terms of reference to increase the membership from four to five members as follows (i) 4 members of the Council as nominated by the Leader of the Labour Group, at least one of whom must either be the Mayor or a member of the Executive; and (ii) 1 Member of the Council as nominated by the Leader of the Opposition Group;
· An amendment is also proposed in relation to officer roles in order to better reflect internal procedures. Under Paragraph 2 of the terms and conditions it is proposed to read as follows “the Divisional Director, HR (or their respective nominee) to liaise with the Mayor and Group Leaders to receive their nominations, in accordance with the above allocation of places, and to agree the date of the first Sub-Committee in each Chief Officer/Deputy CO appointment cycle”;
· The Mayor and political groups are expected to assist in achieving a Sub-Committee whose overall composition is diverse in terms of gender and ethnicity wherever possible; and
· In the event that the initial nominations do not produce such a Sub-Committee, the Divisional Director HR (or their respective nominee) will discuss with the respective group leaders and the Mayor options for amending one or more of those nominations as necessary to achieve sufficient diversity.
The Chair Moved and it was:-
RESOLVED to agree:
1. to increase the membership of the Appointment Sub-Committee from four to five Members; and
2. the updated Terms of Reference attached at Appendix 1 to the report.