Agenda item

To receive a report which asks Council to:

a)                 Appoint the Executive Leader, Deputy Leader and members of the Executive and Shadow Executive for the Municipal Year 2008/2009 and approve their portfolios (Annex A)*;

b)                 Agree arrangements for the distribution of places on Member bodies associated with the City of York Council, in accordance with Section 15 of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (Annex B);

c)                  Appoint the Chairs, Vice-Chairs and membership of the Council’s Committees, Boards and other Member bodies, including any partnership arrangements and representatives on Outside Bodies, for the Municipal Year 2008/2009 (Annex C)*.

d)                 Approve the list of Standing Conferences which Members with specific responsibilities are entitled to attend and claim expenses (Annex D).

*Note: At the time this agenda was originally published, some of the annexes to the above report were incomplete because the political Groups were still in discussion regarding their nominations for membership of the relevant bodies.  The agenda was re-published on 16 May 2008 to include updated versions of Annexes A, B and C.

Cllr Steve Galloway moved, and Cllr Scott seconded, the appointment of an Executive, Leader and Executive Members, together with the allocation of, and nomination to, places on Committees, partnerships and outside bodies, as set out in Annexes B and C to Item 5 on the Council agenda.*

The Lord Mayor then announced that two options had been received for nominations to the Executive and Shadow Executive in addition to those nominations received for Committees, partnerships and outside bodies, as set out in Annex A to Item 5 on the Council agenda*.  A vote was taken on each of those options, as follows:

Option A – a Liberal Democrat Executive and a Labour Shadow Executive.

25 Members voted in favour of this option, 20 voted against and 1 abstained.

Option B – a Labour Executive and a Liberal Democrat Shadow Executive.

20 Members voted in favour of this option and 26 voted against.

Option A was therefore declared carried by 25 votes to 20 and it was

RESOLVED: That allocation of seats to places for 2008/9 and those nominations to the Executive, Leader, Shadow Executive and remaining Committees, outside bodies etc be approved as set out under Option A above.

*Note: Annexes A, B and C to item 5 on the Council agenda can be found by clicking on the link below:

http://democracy.york.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.asp?CId=331&MId=3072&Ver=4