Agenda item

Council assembly is asked to establish committees, community councils and panels for the coming municipal year 2018/19 and to appoint up to three representatives to attend the Local Government Association General Assembly.

The nominations for chairs and vice chairs of committees and the nominations to the Local Government Association General Assembly were circulated. 

 

There were two contested positions.

 

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 Rebecca Lury

 

Chief Whip  Councillor Sarah King

 

LIBERAL DEMOCRAT GROUP

 

Leader  Councillor Anood Al-Samerai

 

Deputy Leader  Councillor David Noakes

 

Chief Whip  Councillor Hamish McCallum

 

2.  That the new division of seats and percentage allocation of each political group on the council as set out in the report at Table 1 be noted.

 

3.  That the following committees and community councils for the coming municipal year 2018/19 be established:

 

Table 2: Ordinary Committees - Total number of seats 29

 

Committee	Total	Lab	Lib Dem
Committee 1 Appointments Committee	7	6	1
Committee 2 Planning Committee	8	6	2
Committee 3 Audit, Governance and Standards Committee	7	5	2
Committee 4 Corporate Parenting Committee	7	6	1
Total	29	23	6

 

Table 3: Other committees - Total number of seats 26

 

Committee	Total	Lab	Lib Dem
Overview and Scrutiny Committee	11	8	3
Licensing Committee	15	12	3

 

Table 4: Community councils

 

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

 

Health and wellbeing board

 

4.  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 in paragraph 39 of the report. 

 

5.  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

 

6.  That the following chairs and vice chairs for the following committees and community councils be appointed:

 

  APPOINTMENTS COMMITTEE

 

Chair - Councillor Peter John

Vice chair – Vacant

 

AUDIT, GOVERNANCE AND STANDARDS COMMITTEE

 

Chair - Councillor Gavin Edwards

Vice chair – Councillor Dan Whitehead

 

CORPORATE PARENTING COMMITTEE

 

Chair -  Councillor Jasmine Ali (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 & SCRUTINY COMMITTEE

 

Chair - Councillor Bill Williams

Vice chair - Councillor Maria Linforth-Hall

 

PLANNING COMMITTEE

 

Chari - Councillor Martin Seaton

Vice Chair - Councillor Lorraine Lauder

 

COMMUNITY COUNCILS

 

Bermondsey and Rotherhithe

 

Chair - Councillor Kath Whittam

Vice chair - Councillor Leanne Werner

 

Borough, Bankside and Walworth

 

Chair - Councillor James Coldwell

Vice chair - Councillor Jack Buck

 

Camberwell

 

Chair - Councillor Dora Dixon-Fyle

Vice chair - Councillor Jason Ochere

 

Dulwich

 

Chair - Councillor Andy Simmons

Vice chair - Councillor Margy Newens

 

Peckham and Nunhead

 

Chair - Councillor Sunil Chopra

Vice chair - Councillor Barrie Hargrove

 

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

 

7.  That the following council panels be established:

 

Table 5: Panels - Total number of seats 16

 

Panel	Total	Lab	Lib Dem
Council assembly business panel	4	3	1
Constitutional steering panel	4	3	1
Pensions advisory panel	3	2	1
Voluntary bodies appointments panel	5	4	1
Total	16	12	4

 

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

 

8.  That Councillor Sarah King be appointed chair of the Constitutional Steering Panel.

 

Urgency committee

 

9.  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 58 and 59 of the report.

 

Appointments to Local Government Association (LGA) General Assembly

 

10.  That up to three representatives and allocates the seven votes to representatives to attend the LGA General Assembly (see paragraphs 58 to 60 of the report) be appointed.

 

Representative	No. of votes	Group
To be nominated by whip	3	Labour
To be nominated by whip	3	Labour
To be nominated by whip	1	Liberal Democrat

 

Other appointments to joint committees/outside bodies

 

11.  That the cabinet and other committees will make appointments to all other outside committees and bodies for the municipal year 2018/19 as required by part 3Q of the constitution be noted.