Meeting documents

Isle of Anglesey County Council
Friday, 4th April, 2003

Isle of Anglesey County Council

 

Minutes of the meeting held on  4th April 2003

 

PRESENT:

 

Councillor R L Owen (Chair)

 

Councillor Mrs B Burns (Vice Chair)

 

Councillors J Byast, W J Chorlton, J M Davies, E G Davies,

J Arwel Edwards, D D Evans, C Ll Everett, P M Fowlie,

Fflur Mai Hughes,  D R Hughes, R Ll Hughes, W  I Hughes,

R Ll Jones, Rhian Medi, R G Parry OBE, G Allan Roberts,

G Winston Roberts OBE, Gwyn Roberts, J Arwel Roberts,

John Roberts, W T Roberts, J Rowlands, E Schofield,

H W Thomas, Keith Thomas, John Williams, W J Williams

 

 

 

IN ATTENDANCE:

 

Managing Director

Corporate Director (Finance)

Corporate Director (Planning & Environment)

Corporate Director  (Housing & Social Services)

Director of Legal Services (Monitoring Officer)

J Huw Jones, Head of Service (Policy)  

Meirion Jones (Solicitor)

Communications Officer

Committee Services Manager

 

 

 

APOLOGIES:

 

Councillors K Evans, T Ll Hughes Dr J B Hughes, G O Jones,

H E Jones, O G Jones, R Jones OBE, R J Jones, W Emyr Jones,

G O Parry MBE, G Alun Williams

 

 

1

DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST

 

Declarations of a direct pecuniary interest were received from each of the Members appointed to serve on The Executive and each was not present at the meeting when voting took place regarding their own appointment to office

 

2

POLITICAL ARRANGEMENTS WITHIN THE COUNCIL

 

Submitted - A joint report by the Managing Director and the Director of Legal Services / Monitoring Officer.

 

Reported by the Managing Director - That under Regulation 8 of the Local Government (Committees and Personal Groups) Regulations 1990 (made under the Local Government and Housing Act 1989), he had been given notice that 23 members of the Council had formed a new political Group to be named “the New Coalition Party”.  Further, he had been informed that the Leader of the Group was Councillor Robert Griffiths Parry OBE and its Deputy Leader Councillor W J Chorlton.

 

As a result of this, the Managing Director had also received a request to review the political arrangements.

 

These two developments were sufficient for the Monitoring Officer to request the Managing Director to call this extraordinary meeting of the County Council.

 
 

Notwithstanding that Article 7 of the Constitution envisaged that in the case of a majority party, the Leader and Deputy Leader will automatically be Leader and Deputy Leader respectively of the Council, Section 11(3) of the Local Government Act 2000 required that the Council’s Leader (though the Deputy Leader was not mentioned) must actually be elected by the Council.  The Local Government Act 2000, as primary legislation, must take precedence over the Constitutional provisions in the case of an inconsistency.
 

 
 

RESOLVED :-
 

 
 

2.1

To note the new political arrangements
 

 
 

2.2

To formally elect Councillor Bob Parry OBE as the Leader of the Council
 

 
 

2.3

To formally note that Councillor W J Chorlton, as chosen Deputy Leader of the majority party, now becomes Deputy Leader of the Council
 

 
 

3

MEMBERSHIP OF THE EXECUTIVE
 

 
 

The Leader of the Council named the following as the members he had chosen to serve on The Executive, together with their Portfolio responsibilities and the Council resolved to approve each appointment :-
 

 
 

Bob Parry OBE     -     Leader of the Council, Chair of the Executive and Portfolio Holder for Environment
 

 
 

W J Chorlton     -     Deputy Leader of the Council, Portfolio Holder for Housing and Social Inclusion
 

 
 

D R Hughes     -     Portfolio Holder for Leisure and the Arts
 

 
 

E G Davies     -     Portfolio Holder for Education
 

 
 

R Llewelyn Jones     -     Portfolio Holder for Council Resources
 

 
 

Rhian Medi     -     Portfolio Holder for Healthy & Safe Communities
 

 
 

G Winston Roberts OBE      -     Portfolio Holder for Economic Development & Planning
 

 
 

Elwyn Schofield     -     Portfolio Holder for Human Resources, Property and Maritime
 

 
 

Keith Thomas     -     Portfolio Holder for Highways, Transportation, & CCTV
 

 
 

The Leader took the opportunity of thanking the Council for the honour in being elected its Leader and expressed every faith in the ability and experience of his fellow Executive Committee members.  He looked forward to working closely with them and the County Council’s dedicated staff.
 

 
 

The meeting concluded at  9.15 am
 

 
 

          CLLR R L OWEN
 

                  CHAIR