Issue - meetings

Job Sharing on the Executive

To submit a report by the Director of Function (Council Business)/Monitoring Officer, as presented to the Executive on 2 March 2023.

Additional documents:

Webcast for Job Sharing on the Executive

Decision:

It was RESOLVED to agree that Constitutional changes are made to:-

· allow for one or more members to job share as leader, deputy leader and as portfolio holders on the Executive;

· allow the maximum number of members on the Executive to be amended to reflect the statutory maximum numbers where Executive members share roles; and

· detail the arrangements in relation to quorum and voting when Executive members are job sharing:-

(a) in accordance with the wording in Appendix 1 in the report;

(b) any further consequential amendments that are required as a result of this decision.

Should any changes be made by way of job-share arrangements and/or the number of individuals in receipt of a senior salary change due to job-share arrangements, the Council will inform the Independent Remuneration Panel for Wales (IRPW) and promptly publicise the same.

Minutes:

The report of the Director of Function (Council Business)/Monitoring Officer as presented to the Executive on 2 March, 2023 was presented for the Council’s acceptance.

The Portfolio Member for Finance, Council Business and Customer Experience said that the Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021 includes a requirement that local authorities must include in their Executive arrangements provision enabling two or more councillors to share office on an Executive. Whist the Council Constitution includes provision for the Leader to share office and for two or more Councillors to share office as Executive Members: there is no express provision for the Deputy Leader role to be shared.