Decision details

The Council considered the report of the Chief Executive concerning the current position in respect of the political composition of the Council with two vacancies, and the current position in respect of holding remote meetings which was due to end on 9 May 2021. Given the current vacancies and having brought this meeting forward to enable it to be held in a remote manner, the report proposed deferral of the annual meeting business, namely the allocation of seats to political groups and the appointments to Committees etc. until the next scheduled Council Meeting to be held on 13 July 2021.

AGREED (unanimously) that the Council:

(a)               note the current position in respect of remote meetings; and

(b)               defer the political composition of the Council and annual appointments until the next meeting, scheduled to be held on Tuesday 13 July 2021 and carry forward the existing appointments until that date.