Issue - meetings

Received a report from the Corporate Director of Resources seeking to appoint Members to the various elements of the political structure and other internal and external bodies.

Agreed to elect Councillor Smith as the Leader of the Council for a fixed term of four years, and as such, his appointment as Chair of the Cabinet.

The Assembly noted the Leader’s appointment of his Cabinet as follows:

Councillor R Gill   Deputy Leader of the Council, and as such his appointment as Deputy Chair of the Cabinet and Cabinet Member for Children and Education

Councillor Alexander  Cabinet Member for Crime, Justice and Communities

Councillor Collins  Cabinet Member for Culture and Sport

Councillor Geddes  Cabinet Member for Finance, Revenues and Benefits

Councillor McCarthy  Cabinet Member for Regeneration

Councillor Reason  Cabinet Member for Health and Adult Services

Councillor Vincent  Cabinet Member for Environment

Councillor P Waker  Cabinet Member for Housing

Councillor White  Cabinet Member for Customer Services and Human Resources

Agreed the:

1.  membership of the various Council meetings (Appendix A);

2.  appointment of Chairs and Deputy Chairs and Lead and Deputy Lead Members, and statutory Co-opted Members (Appendix B);

3.  appointment of representatives on various internal and external bodies (Appendix C);

4.  appointment of Trustees of Local Charities (Appendix D).

Members noted a number of vacancies referred to in the various appendices, the filling of which will be reported to a future meeting.