Agenda and minutes

Joint Meeting of the Cabinet / Education Skills and Culture Scrutiny Committees - Thursday, 4th November, 2021 2.00 pm

Venue: Via Micorosft Teams

Items
No. Item

1.

Appointment of Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson

Minutes:

It was proposed and seconded and resolved that Cllr Sonia Reynolds be appointed Chairperson for the meeting.

 

It was proposed and seconded and resolved that Cllr Saifur Rahaman be the Vice-Chairperson for the meeting.

2.

Declarations of Interest

Minutes:

The following Members made a declaration of interest at the commencement of the meeting:

Cllr Wyndham Griffiths

Re:

Future Delivery of Leisure Services as he is a Members at Celtic Leisure but has dispensation to speak and vote.

Cllr Simon Knoyle

Re:

Future Delivery of Leisure Services as he is a Members at Celtic Leisure but has dispensation to speak and vote.

Cllr Rebecca Phillips

Re:

Future Delivery of Leisure Services as she is a Members at Celtic Leisure but has dispensation to speak and vote.

Cllr Arwyn Woolcock

Re:

Future Delivery of Leisure Services as he is the National Chair of APSE but has dispensation to speak and vote.

Cllr Nigel Hunt

Re:

Future Delivery of Leisure Services as he is a Members at Celtic Leisure but has dispensation to speak and vote.

 

3.

Access to Meetings

Access to Meetings to resolve to exclude the public for the following item(s) pursuant to Section 100A(4) and (5) of the Local Government Act 1972 and the relevant exempt paragraphs of Part 4 of Schedule 12A to the above Act.

Minutes:

Prior to moving in to private session, Members queried the possibility of discussing the report in Public session. Following Legal advice around the confidentiality of the financial information as detailed in Paragraph 2.2 of the private report. Members agreed the following resolution:

 

RESOLVED:

that pursuant to Section 100A(4) and (5) of the Local Government Act 1972, the public be excluded for the following items of business which involved the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Paragraph 14 of Part 4 of Schedule 12A to the above Act.

 

4.

Future Delivery of Leisure Services (enclosed within Cabinet Papers)

Minutes:

Members received a report on the future delivery model for leisure services, as detailed within the private circulated report.

 

Prior to the commencement of the discussion of the report members raised concerns regarding the insufficient detail contained within the circulated report, which therefore affected their ability to consider and scrutinise the report in its entirety.

 

The following proposal was proposed and seconded:

 

·        The scrutiny committee recommends to Cabinet that the item is deferred from consideration today and that an additional meeting of the Joint Cabinet and Education Skills and Culture Scrutiny Committee is convened within the next two weeks. The aim of this meeting will be to clarify and formulate the additional information that will be required to supplement the existing report and the committee at that time can decide how best to organise itself to achieve this.

 

A recorded vote was proposed and seconded and agreed in line with required procedures.

 

The vote was undertaken to determine which Members were for against and abstaining from the proposed motion. The results of the vote were as follows:

 

For the Proposal

 

M.Crowley, S. Freeguard, S.Harris, J.Jones, D. Keough, S.Miller, S.Paddison, S.Penry, M.Protheroe, S.Rahaman, S.Renkes, S.Reynolds, R.Taylor, D.Whitelock, A.Woolocock

 

Against the Proposal

 

W.Griffiths, J.Hale, N.Hunt, S.Hunt, S.Knoyle, A.Llewelyn, R.Phillips, L.Purcell, A.Richards, R.Wood

 

Abstentions        

 

None

 

Following scrutiny, the majority of the Committee was supportive of the following proposal to be considered by the Cabinet Board:

·        The scrutiny committee recommends to Cabinet that the item is deferred from consideration today and that an additional meeting of the Joint Cabinet and Education Skills and Culture Scrutiny Committee is convened within the next two weeks. The aim of this meeting will be to clarify and formulate the additional information that will be required to supplement the existing report and the committee at that time can decide how best to organise itself to achieve this.