Minutes:
The Leader announced that the Cabinet for the year 2015/16, would comprise of himself and the following six Members:-
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Councillor H J David Councillor H Townsend Councillor H M Williams Councillor M Gregory Councillor P J White Councillor C E Smith |
The Leader of the Independent Alliance Group, whilst appreciating that within the past year Councillor Smith had been appointed as a Cabinet Member to support the Cabinet due to the ill health of other Cabinet Members, she confirmed that she could not support a permanent increase of Members on the Cabinet, particularly since this original problem had now been resolved by a change in the membership of Cabinet. The reason for this, was that under the Council’s MTFS, employers were still facing the threat of redundancy due to cutbacks affecting local government and the extra money committed to a further Cabinet Member could go to easing these redundancy pressures. She therefore moved an amendment that was duly seconded and proposed that the Cabinet be made up of 6 Members as was originally the case.
The Leader responded by stating that the number of Members on the Cabinet had been increased due to the overall workload of the Cabinet as a whole, both at the time Councillor Smith was appointed, and at the present time. He added that he felt this trend would continue in the future. He further added that the number of Members on the Cabinet in BCBC was still less than that in neighbouring authorities where there were as many as 9 or 10 Members forming the Cabinet.
Members then agreed to have an electronic vote on whether or not a recorded vote should be taken in order to establish whether or not there should be 6 or 7 Cabinet Members, to comprise the Executive.
Following the electronic vote, it was unanimously agreed to have a recorded vote on this matter.
The outcome of the recorded vote was as follows:-
For (a Cabinet comprising 7 of Members) Against Did Not Vote
Cllr M Thomas Cllr M Winter Cllr L Ellis
Cllr R E Young Cllr D G Owen Cllr G Thomas
Cllr H M Williams Cllr S Aspey
Cllr A D Owen Cllr B Jones 2
Cllr R Williams Cllr E Venables
Cllr J R McCarthy Cllr N Clarke
Cllr D B F White Cllr C A Green
Cllr N Farr Cllr K J Watts
Cllr R M James
Cllr D R Pugh 8
Cllr D R W Lewis
Cllr J E Lewis
Cllr P James
Cllr E M Hughes
Cllr G Phillips
Cllr G W Davies MBE
Cllr P John
Cllr H E Morgan
Cllr P A Davies
Cllr E P Foley
Cllr E Dodd
Cllr D Sage
Cllr M W Butcher
Cllr M Jones
Cllr C Westwood
Cllr M Reeves
Cllr C L Reeves
Cllr J C Spanswick
Cllr C L Jones
Cllr H J Townsend
Cllr J H Tildesley MBE
Cllr P J White
Cllr H J David
Cllr M E J Nott OBE
Cllr M Gregory
Cllr C E Smith
Cllr L C Morgan
Cllr C J James
Cllr R D Jenkins
Totals 39