Agenda item

Council assembly is asked to establish committees, community councils and panels for 2016/17 and appoint chairs and vice-chairs.  Council assembly is also invited to appoint representatives to the Local Government Association General Assembly.

(See pages 5 – 26 of the main agenda)

 

There was one question to the leader of the council from Councillor David Noakes, the answer to which had been circulated.  There was no supplemental question.

 

The Mayor stated that in accordance with council assembly procedure rule 2.11.2, this being an officer report, the recommendations set out in the report were deemed to have been moved, and were subject to amendment only.  She stated that the nominations for chairs and vice chairs of committees and the nominations to the Local Government Association General Assembly had been circulated.

 

As there were no contested positions or amendments to the report the Mayor moved to the vote on the nominations and the substantive motion was declared to be carried.

 

RESOLVED:

 

1.  That the appointment of political group leaders, deputies and whips be noted as follows:

 

Labour Group

 

Leader  Councillor Peter John

 

Deputy Leader  Councillor Stephanie Cryan

 

Chief Whip  Councillor Sarah King

 

Liberal Democrat Group

 

Leader  Councillor Anood Al-Samerai

 

Deputy Leader  Councillor David Noakes

 

Chief Whip  Councillor David Hubber

 

Conservative Group

 

Leader  Councillor Michael Mitchell

 

Deputy Leader  Councillor Jane Lyons

 

Chief Whip  Councillor Michael Mitchell

 

2.  That the division of seats and percentage allocation of each political group on the council at the time of publication of the agenda (Friday 6 May 2016), as set out in the report at Table 1, be noted.

 

Note:  A revised division of seats as at 14 May 2016 including the outcome of the election in College and Newington wards on 5 May 2016 is set out below as follows:

 

Division of seats

 

Group	Total	%
Labour	48	76.19
Liberal Democrat	12	19.05
Conservative	2	3.17
Vacancies	1	1.59
Total	63	100.00

 

 

3.  That the following committees and community councils be established for the coming municipal year 2016/17:

 

Ordinary Committees - Total number of seats 29

 

Committee	Total	Lab	Lib Dem	Con
Committee 1 Appointments Committee	7	6	1	0
Committee 2 Planning Committee	8	5	2	1
Committee 3 Audit, Governance and Standards Committee	7	5	2	0
Committee 4 Corporate Parenting Committee	7	6	1	0
Total	29	22	6	1

 

Other Committees - Total number of seats 29

 

Committee	Total	Lab	Lib Dem	Con
Overview and Scrutiny Committee	11	8	3	0
Licensing Committee	15	11	3	1

 

Community Councils

 

1.	Bermondsey and Rotherhithe
2.	Borough, Bankside and Walworth
3.	Camberwell
4.	Dulwich
5.	Peckham and Nunhead

 

Audit, governance and standards committee - Role and functions and changes

to committee procedure rules

 

4.  That the audit, governance and standards committee be constituted with the role and functions as set out in Appendix 2 of the report and consequential changes to the committee procedure rules as set out in Appendix 3 of the report.

 

Health and wellbeing board

 

5.  That the health and wellbeing board be established as a committee of the council under the Health and Social Care Act 2012 with the membership set out below (see also paragraph 44 of the report):

 

·  Local authority councillors, who will be (or be nominated by) the leader of

the council

o  The leader of the council

o  The cabinet member for public health, parks and leisure

o  The cabinet member for adult care and financial inclusion

·  The chief executive of the council

·  The strategic director of children's and adults’ services

·  The director of public health

·  Three representatives from the NHS Southwark Clinical Commissioning Group

·  A representative of Healthwatch Southwark

·  A representative from King’s Health Partners

·  The chief executive of Community Southwark.

 

Note:  A representative from the Southwark Headteachers Executive has been invited to join the board.

 

6.  That it be noted that the local authority membership is nominated by the leader of the council.  In accordance with committee procedure rules, the board is chaired by the leader.

 

Appointment of chairs and vice chairs

 

7.  That the following be appointed as chairs and vice chairs for the committees and community councils outlined below:

 

  Appointments committee

 

Chair - Councillor Peter John

Vice chair – Councillor Stephanie Cryan

 

Audit, governance and standards committee

 

Chair - Councillor Paul Fleming

Vice chair – Councillor James Barber

 

Corporate parenting committee

 

Chair -  Councillor Victoria Mills (Appointment of cabinet member with the responsibility for children and schools formally noted)

Vice chair – Vacant

 

Licensing committee

 

Chair - Councillor Renata Hamvas

Vice chair - Councillor Adele Morris

 

Overview and scrutiny committee

 

Chair - Councillor Gavin Edwards

Vice chair - Councillor Rosie Shimell

 

Planning committee

 

Chair - Councillor Nick Dolezal

Vice Chair - Councillor Lorraine Lauder

 

Bermondsey and Rotherhithe community council

 

Chair - Councillor Bill Williams

Vice chair - Councillor Lucas Green

 

Borough, Bankside and Walworth community council

 

Chair - Councillor Eleanor Kerslake

Vice chair - Councillor Samantha Jury-Dada

 

Camberwell community council

 

Chair - Councillor Kieron Williams

Vice chair - Councillor Octavia Lamb

 

Dulwich community council

 

Chair - Councillor Jon Hartley

Vice chair - Councillor Anne Kirby

 

Peckham and Nunhead community council

 

Chair - Councillor Sunil Chopra

Vice chair - Councillor Sandra Rhule.

 

Note: Any outstanding appointments will be referred to the first meeting of the respective committee in the 2016/17 municipal year.

 

Establishment of the council’s panels

 

8.  That the following council panels be established:

 

Panels - Total number of seats 18

 

Committee	Total	Lab	Lib Dem	Con
Council assembly business panel	5	3	1	1
Constitutional steering panel	5	3	1	1
Pensions advisory panel	3	2	1	0
Voluntary bodies appointment panel	5	4	1	0

 

Appointments of chair to constitutional steering panel and voluntary bodies appointment panel

 

9.  That Councillor Sarah King be appointed chair of the constitutional steering panel and Councillor Stephanie Cryan be appointed chair of the voluntary bodies appointment panel.

 

Urgency committee

 

10.  That the role of the urgency committee between a municipal election and the annual meeting of council assembly, as agreed by council assembly on 26 March 2014, be noted as set out in paragraphs 61 – 63 of the report.

 

Appointments to Local Government Association General Assembly

 

11.  That the three representatives and allocation of the five votes to representatives to attend the LGA General Assembly be as follows:

 

Representatives	No. of votes	Group
Representative 1, to be nominated by the group whip	3	Labour
Representative 2, to be nominated by the group whip	1	Labour
Councillor Adele Morris	1	Liberal Democrat