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Election of Chair for the Council Year 2020-21 Minutes: The Committee Services Officer opened the meeting.
The Committee elected Councillor Clarkson to be the Chair for the Council Year 2019/20.
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Election of Vice-Chair for the Council Year 2020-21 Minutes: Both Councillors Lygo and Gotch were proposed and seconded for the position of Vice Chair for the Council Year 2020-21. On being put to a vote a majority of the Committee voted in support of Councillor Lygo’s nomination. Councillor Lygo was therefore duly elected as Vice Chair for the Council Year 2020/21.
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Declarations of Interest Minutes: None. |
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Appointment of Sub-Committees PDF 147 KB The Head of Law and Governance has submitted a report to establish 4 sub-committees for the Council Year to deal with the casework flowing from the Committee’s own responsibilities. Recommendations: That the General Purposes Licensing Committee resolves to: 1. Agree that the casework hearings for taxi, private hire or other driver or vehicle licences, street trading licences and sex establishment licences should be determined by sub-committees on the basis of the Powers and Duties of GPL Sub-Committees at Appendix 1. 2. Establish 4 politically-balanced sub-committees of 3 members, and agree the membership, each to undertake the casework of the General Purposes Licensing Committee as set out in Appendix 1: • Sub- Committee A: GPL Chair, Labour Cllr A, Lib Dem Cllr A • Sub- Committee B: GPL Vice Chair, Labour Cllr B, Lib Dem Cllr B • Sub- Committee C: GPL Chair, Labour Cllr C, Lib Dem Cllr A • Sub- Committee D: GPL Vice Chair, Labour Cllr D, Lib Dem Cllr B 3. Agree that substitution is permitted on each of the 4 sub-committees but that substitutes must be from the General Purposes Licensing Committee and must maintain political proportionality; 4. Agree the meeting dates and time listed in the report. Additional documents: Minutes: The Head of Law and Governance had submitted a report to establish 4 sub-committees for the 2020-21 Council Year to deal with the casework flowing from the Committee’s own responsibilities.
The Clerk noted that the date given for a sub-committee meeting on 01 August should be 17 August.
The Committee resolved to:
1. Agree that the casework hearings for taxi, private hire or other driver or vehicle licences, street trading licences and sex establishment licences should be determined by sub-committees on the basis of the Powers and Duties of GPL Sub-Committees at Appendix 1 of the report .
2. Agree the establishment of 4 politically balanced sub-committees of 3 members as follows: •Sub- Committee A: GPL Chair, Labour Cllr A, Lib Dem Cllr A •Sub- Committee B: GPL Vice Chair, Labour Cllr B, Lib Dem Cllr B •Sub- Committee C: GPL Chair, Labour Cllr C, Lib Dem Cllr A •Sub- Committee D: GPL Vice Chair, Labour Cllr D, Lib Dem Cllr B;
3. Agree that substitution is permitted on each of the 4 sub-committees but that substitutes must be from the General Purposes Licensing Committee and must maintain political proportionality;
4. Agree the following meeting dates and times
5. Agree that the names of members for the 4 sub-committees be agreed outside the meeting.
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Recommendation: to approve the minutes of the meeting held on 3 February 2020 as a true and accurate record.
Minutes: In response to a question about the previous commitment to provide data about the number and nature of street closures it was explained that this would be the subject of a report to the next meeting of the Committee. The Committee resolved to approve the minutes of the meeting held on 03 February 2020 as a true and accurate record.
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Dates of Future Meetings Meetings are scheduled on:
22 September 2020 4 February 2021 Minutes: Meetings are scheduled on · 22 September 2020 · 04 February 2021 |