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28.

Declarations of Interest

Members are asked to declare any disclosable pecuniary or affected interests in respect of any matter to be considered at this meeting.

 

Any Member with a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest in a matter should withdraw from the meeting when the matter is under consideration and should notify the Democratic Services Officer in attendance that they are withdrawing as they have such an interest. If the Disclosable Pecuniary Interest is not entered on the register of Members interests the Monitoring Officer must be notified of the interest within 28 days.

 

Any Member with an affected Interest in a matter must disclose the interest to the meeting.  There is no requirement to withdraw from the meeting when the interest is only an affected interest, but the Monitoring Officer should be notified of the interest, if not previously notified of it, within 28 days of the meeting.

Minutes:

There were no declarations of interest.

29.

Local Government Boundary Commission for England Electoral Review - Stage 1 Submission pdf icon PDF 228 KB

To approve the recommended preferred Council size submission to the Local Government Boundary Commission for England (LGBCE) which is undertaking an electoral review of the Council. The draft submission has been developed by a cross-party Boundary Review Working Group working with officers.

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Minutes:

The Local Government Boundary Commission for England (LGBCE) was undertaking an electoral review of the Council which has two stages; the first determines the Council size and the second will look at future warding patterns. The Council considered the recommendation from the cross-party Boundary Review Working Group that the Council proposed to the Local Government Boundary Commission for England (LGBCE) that, with effect from the Borough elections in 2023, the size of the Council should be 40 elected Members. The submission had full cross party support.

 

On the proposition of Councillor Birch, Chairman of the Boundary Review Working Group, seconded by Councillor Temperton, Labour Group leader

 

it was RESOLVED that the cross-party Boundary Review Working Group recommendation to propose a future Council size of 40 to the LGBCE be agreed and the supporting information at Annex A of the agenda report be approved for submission to the Commission by 15 November 2019.

30.

Vote of thanks to Boundary Review Working Group

Minutes:

Councillor Bettison OBE delivered a vote of thanks to the cross-party Boundary Review Working Group and the officers who have supported the preparation of the submission proposal.

 

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