Issue - meetings

To consider the report of the Chief Executive

Council considered a report of the Chief Executive advising Council to appoint one Labour Member to the Lancashire Police and Crime Panel.

The Democratic Services Manager explained that the political balance throughout the County had not yet been calculated by the host authority, Blackburn-with-Darwen and it may be that the Council would be invited to appoint a second member once that calculation was known. However, initially Blackburn-with-Darwen had requested that Lancaster City Council appoint one Labour Member to enable the Council to be represented at the next Panel meeting in early July.

Councillor Goodrich proposed, by way of amendment, that a Conservative Member be named for appointment, in case the Council was invited to appoint both a Labour and a Conservative Member to the Panel.

It was noted that there a proposition had not yet been made to be amended, therefore Councillor Clifford, seconded by Councillor Brayshaw, proposed that the recommendations, as set out in the report, be approved. They both accepted Councillor Goodrich’s suggestion to name a Conservative Councillor, as a friendly amendment to the proposition.

Councillor Hughes was nominated for the vacancy by the Labour Group and Councillor Sykes was named as the Conservative appointment, should there in an invitation to appoint an additional Member to represent Lancaster City Council from the Conservative Group.

Resolved:

(1)          That Council notes that the political balance in Lancashire, following local elections in May 2018, is still to be determined.

(2)          That Councillor Hughes be put forward as the City Council’s Labour Member for appointment to the Lancashire Police and Crime Panel for the municipal year 2018/19 to enable the Council to be represented at the next meeting of the Panel on 2 July 2018.

(3)          That, should the City Council also be asked to appoint a Conservative Member, Councillor Sykes be appointed as the Conservative Group Member on the Panel.