Return to AgendaITEM CC1OXFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL
MINUTES of the meeting of the County Council held at County Hall on Thursday 27 November 2008 commencing at 5.00 pm and finishing at 5.33 pm
Present:
Councillor TONY CRABBE – in the chair
Councillors:
M Altaf-Khan Lynda Atkins Marilyn Badcock Michael Badcock Roger Belson Maurice Billington Norman Bolster Ann Bonner Liz Brighouse Iain Brown Alan Bryden Patrick Cartledge Louise Chapman Jim Couchman John Farrow Mrs C Fulljames Michael Gibbard Patrick Greene Jenny Hannaby Neville F Harris David Harvey Steve Hayward Mrs J Heathcoat Ian Hudspeth Ray Jelf Bob Johnston Colin Lamont Lesley Legge Kieron Mallon Charles Mathew Olive McIntosh-Stedman Keith R Mitchell CBE David Nimmo-Smith Zoé Patrick Anne Purse G A Reynolds Dermot Roaf David Robertson Rodney Rose John Sanders Larry Sanders Don Seale Bill Service C H Shouler Peter Skolar Roz Smith Val Smith Melinda Tilley David Turner Nicholas P Turner Carol Viney Michael Waine
The Council considered the matters, reports and recommendations contained or referred to in the agenda for the meeting and decided as set out below. Except insofar as otherwise specified, the reasons for the decisions are contained in the agenda and reports, copies of which are attached to the signed Minutes.
105/08 MINUTES OF THE LAST MEETING (Agenda Item 1)
RESOLVED: that the Minutes of the meeting of Council held on 4 November 2008 be approved and signed as a correct record.
106/08 APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE (Agenda Item 2)
Apologies for absence were received from Councillors Armitage, Bones, Carter, Dhesi, Mrs Fitzgerald-O’Connor, Fooks, Glass-Woodin, Godden, Haffenden, Hallchurch, Handley, Hibbert-Biles, Joslin, Sherwood, Stratford, Wilmshurst and Wise.
107/08 NEW EXECUTIVE ARRANGEMENTS (Agenda Item 7)
Council considered a report (CC7) by the Leader of the Council on the new executive arrangements the Council should operate after the 2009 elections which the Cabinet had considered at its meeting on 21 October 2008.
RESOLVED: (on a motion by Councillor Mitchell and seconded by Councillor Robertson and carried by 35 votes to 1):
(a) (i) to comply with the government’s instruction to adopt the “strong leader” model and to amend the constitution to provide for the Leader of the Council:
(1) to be elected by the Council for the full term of the Council; (2) to determine the size of the Cabinet; (3) to appoint members of the Cabinet; and (4) to allocate all executive functions;
(ii) to maintain the policy and budget framework as set out in the current constitution;
(iii) to note the Leader of the Council’s intention to delegate executive functions to Cabinet Members as they are currently delegated in the Constitution;
(iv) not to delegate any non-executive functions to individual members of the Council;
(v) to maintain the local choice functions as set out in Section H of the Council’s Constitution;
(vi) to note that there are a number of methods by which members may ask for issues to be addressed and to await government guidance before considering implementing a process for a Councillor Call for Action;
(b) to ask the Leader of the Council to write to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government expressing the view that many members were irritated and annoyed by the prescriptive nature of this legislation; by the short timescale in which it must be implemented; and by the inconvenience of having to convene a separate Council meeting to debate it.
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Date of signing.................................................................. 2009
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