To submit for approval the minutes of the following meetings and consider recommendations made by the committee:

Planning and Highways Committee – 19 September 2019, 17 October 2019 and 14 November 2019 (to follow)

Audit Committee – 15 October 2019 and 12 November 2019

Health and Wellbeing Board - 30 October 2019

Standards Committee (including the annual report of the Standards Committee) - 31 October 2019 (to follow)

Constitutional and Nomination Committee – 4 November 2019 and 27 November 2019 (to be tabled),  and in particular to consider:

CN/19/26         Statutory Review of Polling Districts and Polling Places: Draft Proposals

To recommend to the Council the adoption of parliamentary polling districts and parliamentary polling places as set out in the scheme contained in Appendix 1 and in the maps found at Appendix 2, replacing the Didsbury East map with the revision that was submitted at the meeting.

To recommend to the Council the approval of the reasons given in the report for the in respect of the designation of parliamentary polling districts and parliamentary polling places.

To recommend to the Council that the scheme contained in Appendix 1 be adopted in relation to both Parliamentary and Local government elections, including the revision to the scheme that were introduced at the meeting in relation to Didsbury East ward.

To recommend to the Council that the Chief Executive is requested to publish such notices and other documentation required by law on completion of the review.

To recommend that the Council requests that the Electoral Registration Officer makes the necessary amendments to polling districts for the publication of the revised Electoral Register, noting that one of the implications of the Parliamentary General Election on 12 December was that the new Register would need to be published on 2 February 2020, to reflect the new scheme.

To recommend to the Council that authority continues to be delegated to the Chief Executive to make, where necessary, alterations to the designation of any polling place prior to the next full review in consultation with ward councillors, group leaders and the Chair of Constitutional and Nomination Committee.

Personnel Committee - 16 October 2019, and in particular to consider:

PE/19/25        Director of Commercial and Operations

To recommend that Council approves the regrade of the Director Commercial and operations from SS3 (£78, 715 - £87, 217) to SS4 (£95, 953 - £105, 940) and agrees to appointment at a salary of £105,940

The minutes of the following meetings were submitted:

Audit Committee –  15 October and 12 November 2019

Health and Wellbeing Board – 30 October 2019

Standards Committee – 31 October 2019

Planning and Highways Committee – 19 September and 17 October 2019

Constitutional and Nomination Committee – 4 November 2019

The Council was asked to give particular consideration to the following recommendations:

CN/19/26 Statutory Review of Polling Districts and Polling

Places: Draft Proposals

·         The adoption of parliamentary polling districts and parliamentary polling places as set out in the scheme contained in Appendix 1 and in the maps found at Appendix 2, replacing the Didsbury East map with the revision that was submitted at the meeting.

·         To recommend to the Council the approval of the reasons given

in the report for the in respect of the designation of parliamentary

polling districts and parliamentary polling places.

·         To recommend to the Council that the scheme contained in Appendix 1 be adopted in relation to both Parliamentary and Local government elections, including the revision to the scheme that were introduced at the meeting in relation to Didsbury East ward.

·         To recommend to the Council that the Chief Executive is requested to publish such notices and other documentation required by law on completion of the review.

·         To recommend that the Council requests that the Electoral Registration Officer makes the necessary amendments to polling districts for the publication of the revised Electoral Register, noting that one of the implications of the Parliamentary General Election on 12 December was that the new Register would need to be published on 2 February 2020, to reflect the new scheme.

·         To recommend to the Council that authority continues to be delegated to the Chief Executive to make, where necessary, alterations to the designation of any polling place prior to the next full review in consultation with ward councillors, group leaders and the Chair of Constitutional and Nomination Committee.

Personnel Committee - 16 October 2019

The Council was asked to give particular consideration to the following recommendation:

PE/19/25 Director of Commercial and Operations

To recommend that Council approves the regrade of the Director

Commercial and Operations from SS3 (£78, 715 - £87, 217) to

SS4 (£95, 953 - £105, 940) and agrees to appointment at a salary

of £105,940.

Decisions

1.    To receive those minutes.

2.    The agree the adoption of parliamentary polling districts and parliamentary polling places as set out in the scheme contained in Appendix 1 and in the maps found at Appendix 2, replacing the Didsbury East map with the revision that was submitted at the meeting of Constitutional and Nomination Committee on 4 November 2019.

3.    To approve of the reasons given in the report submitted to the Constitutional and Nomination Committee in respect of the designation of parliamentary polling districts and parliamentary polling places.

4.    To adopt the scheme contained in Appendix 1 of the report submitted to the Constitutional and Nomination Committee in relation to both Parliamentary and Local government elections, including the revision to the scheme that were introduced at the meeting in relation to Didsbury East ward.

5.    To request the Chief Executive to publish such notices and other documentation required by law on completion of the review.

6.    To request that the Electoral Registration Officer make the necessary amendments to polling districts for the publication of the revised Electoral Register, noting that one of the implications of the Parliamentary General Election on 12 December 2019 was that the new Register would need to be published on 2 February 2020, to reflect the new scheme.

7.    To agree that authority continues to be delegated to the Chief Executive to make, where necessary, alterations to the designation of any polling place prior to the next full review in consultation with ward councillors, group leaders and the Chair of Constitutional and Nomination Committee.

8.    To approve the regrade of the Director Commercial and operations from SS3 (£78, 715 - £87, 217) to SS4 (£95, 953 - £105, 940) and agrees to appointment at a salary of £105,940.

9.    Council to make the following changes in appointments to Committees and Joint Committees of the Council, and to the membership of GM bodies and committees:

10.To appoint Samantha Barnwell, Zainab Derrez, Liam Duffy and Joanne Fleet to serve as Co-opted members on the Children and Young People Scrutiny Committee for a period of two years with effect from 30 November 2019.