Agenda item

(A)      The Council had before it a report by the Chief Officer – Governance which sought approval of the composition and membership of the Council’s committees, the appointment of Conveners and Vice Conveners and to agree the payment of senior councillor allowances and the appointment of external members to the Education Operational Delivery Committee.

The report recommended:-

that the Council -

(a)           agree the composition of the committees listed in paragraph 3.1.1 of the report on the basis of the indicative allocations proposed within Appendix 1;

(b)           appoint a Convener and Vice Convener to the committees listed in paragraph 3.1.1, as appropriate, on the basis of the information contained within paragraph 3.3.1;

(c)           appoint a Business Manager and Depute Business Manager in line with paragraph 3.3.2;

(d)           appoint members to the committees listed in paragraph 3.1.1 on the basis of the agreed compositions;

(e)           nominate a Vice Chairperson to the Integration Joint Board;

(f)             appoint members and substitutes to the Aberdeen City Region Deal Joint Committee as set out in paragraph 3.2.4;

(g)           appoint members and substitutes to the Northern Roads Collaboration Joint Committee as set out in paragraph 3.2.5;

(h)           appoint members to the Guildry and Mortification Funds Committee as set out in paragraph 3.2.6;

(i)             appoint members to the Special Licensing Objections Committee as set out in paragraph 3.2.7;

(j)             agree the payment of senior councillor allowances in accordance with the guidance set out in paragraph 3.3.3;

(k)           agree the appointment of external members to the Education Operational Delivery Committee as set out in section 3.4; and

(l)             nominate one member and one substitute member to be appointed to the North East Scotland Pension Fund Pensions Board, on the basis of the information contained within section 3.5.

(B)      The Council had before it a report by the Chief Officer - Governance which sought appointments to sub committees, partnerships, joint boards and working groups; and the nomination of members to be appointed to a small number of outside bodies.

The report recommended:-

that the Council -

(a)           note that the membership number and composition of the sub committees detailed in Appendix A will be determined by the respective committees;

(b)           approve the membership number for each working group as detailed in

Appendix B; set a composition for each and appoint members on the basis that names can be provided to the Chief Officer - Governance after the meeting and that he be authorised to finalise membership where required;

(c)           set a composition for each of the joint committees/partnerships as detailed at Appendix C, and appoint members and substitutes (where applicable) on the basis that names can be provided to the Chief Officer - Governance after the meeting and that he be authorised to finalise membership where required;

(d)           appoint 9 members to the Appointment Panel, agree the composition of the Panel and appoint members on the basis that names can be provided to the Chief Officer - Governance after the meeting and that he be authorised to finalise membership where required;

(e)           consider the appointment or nomination (as appropriate) of members to the outside bodies listed in Appendix D, and appoint members on the basis that names can be provided to the Chief Officer - Governance after the meeting and that he be authorised to finalise the membership where required; and

(f)             note that the remaining outside body appointments, or nominations, will be reported to the Council meeting on 29 June 2022 for determination.

Councillor Radley moved, seconded by Councillor Yuill:-

          That the Council -

(i)             agree the composition of committees and joint committees as contained within Appendix 1 below, and that members be appointed upon the provision of names to the Chief Officer - Governance following the meeting;

(ii)           appoint Conveners and Vice Conveners as per Appendix 2 below and to agree the payment of senior councillor allowances accordingly;

(iii)          make no appointments with regard to the positions of Business Manager and Depute Business Manager;

(iv)          nominate Councillor Cooke as Vice Chairperson to the Integration Joint Board;

(v)           agree the appointment of external members to the Education Operational Delivery Committee as set out in section 3.4 of the report;

(vi)          nominate Councillor Mennie as the member to be appointed to the North East Scotland Pension Fund Pensions Board, and Councillor Copland as substitute member.

Appendix 1 - Committee Allocations

(vii)        note that the membership number and composition of the sub committees detailed in Appendix A would be determined by the respective committees;

(viii)       approve the membership number and composition for each working group as detailed below and appoint members on the basis that names can be provided to the Chief Officer - Governance after the meeting and that he be authorised to finalise membership where required;

(ix)          approve the composition for each of the joint committees/partnerships as detailed below, and appoint members and substitutes (where applicable) on the basis that names can be provided to the Chief Officer- Governance after the meeting;

(x)           agree that the composition of the Appointment Panel be 5 members of the Partnership, 2 Labour members, 1 Conservative member and 1 Independent member, and that names be provided to the Chief Officer - Governance after the meeting;

(xi)          agree the appointment or nomination (as appropriate) of members to the outside bodies listed below, and appoint members on the basis that names can be provided to the Chief Officer - Governance after the meeting; and

(xii)        note that the remaining outside body appointments, or nominations, would be reported to the Council meeting on 29 June 2022 for determination.

Councillor Macdonald moved as an amendment, seconded by Councillor Houghton:-       

That the Council appoint 2 Partnership members and 1 Labour member to the Aberdeen City Region Deal Joint Committee.

On a division, there voted:-

For the motion  (24)  -  Lord Provost; Depute Provost; and Councillors Al-Samarai, Allard, Alphonse, Bouse, Hazel Cameron, Clark, Cooke, Copland, Cormie, Davidson, Fairfull, Greig, Henrickson, Hutchison, MacGregor, McLellan, McRae, Mennie, Nicoll, Radley, van Sweeden and Yuill.

For the amendment  (20)  -  Councillors Blake, Bonsell, Boulton, Brooks, Crockett, Cross, Farquhar, Graham, Grant, Houghton, Kusznir, Macdonald, MacKenzie, McLeod, Malik, Massey, Stewart, Thomson, Tissera and Watson.

Absent from the division  (1)  -  Councillor Ali.

The Council resolved:-

to adopt the motion.