Agenda and minutes

Apologies for absence were received from Councillors Paul Bristow, Jean Campbell, Alex Chalk, Gill Dickenson, Caroline Ffiske, Rachel Ford, Stephen Greenhalgh, Robert Iggulden, Lisa Nandy, Ed Owen and Sally Powell.

If a Councillor has any prejudicial or personal interest in a particular report he/she should declare the existence and nature of the interest at the commencement of the consideration of the item or as soon as it becomes apparent.

At meetings where members of the public are allowed to be in attendance and speak, any Councillor with a prejudicial interest may also make representations, give evidence or answer questions about the matter. The Councillor must then withdraw immediately from the meeting before the matter is discussed and any vote taken, unless a dispensation has been obtained from the Standards Committee.

Where members of the public are not allowed to be in attendance, then the Councillor with a prejudicial interest should withdraw from the meeting whilst the matter is under consideration, unless the disability has been removed by the Standards Committee.

There were no declarations of interest.

The Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 (“the Act”) requires all Councils to change their decision making arrangements by May 2010.

Council, at its last meeting held in October 2009, indicated a preference for the new style Leader and Cabinet Executive governance model to be operational from the third day after the May 2010 local elections, and agreed that a further report be brought to a Special Meeting of Council in January 2010, at which a final decision will be taken.

10.04 pm – the report and recommendations were formally moved by the Deputy Leader, Councillor Nicholas Botterill.

The report and recommendations were put to the vote:

FOR                            Unanimous

AGAINST                               0

ABSTENTIONS                     0

The report and recommendation was declared CARRIED.

10.04 pm  RESOLVED:

That the Council

a)     adopts the new Leader and Cabinet executive model with effect from the third day after the local elections in May 2010;

b)     agrees that the Leader may be removed by a resolution of Full Council;

c)      agrees the main constitutional changes detailed in Appendix 1 of the report, and notes that  further changes could be made later in the municipal year.