Report by Clerk.
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There was submitted a report by the Clerk seeking approval for the continued appointment of the existing membership of the Scotland Excel Executive Sub-committee for a further period to June 2023.
The report intimated that in June 2017, the Joint Committee agreed to increase the number of members of the Sub-committee from 12 to 13 to include both the Convener and Vice Convener and the Procedural Standing Orders had been amended to reflect that change. However, the new arrangements remained subject to the requirement that where possible, the membership of the Executive Sub-committee should reflect the geographic diversity of the constituent authorities.
Councillor Shaw, seconded by Councillor McCole, moved, in terms of Standing Order 36, that Standing Order 35 be suspended to allow consideration of the membership of the Executive Sub-committee as detailed in Standing Order 40a. This was agreed unanimously.
After discussion Councillor Shaw, seconded by Councillor McCole, proposed that:
(a) Standing Order 40a be amended to read that “the Executive Sub-committee shall comprise a maximum of 14 members including the Convener and Vice Convener with the other members appointed by the Joint Committee. The Convener and Vice Convener of the Joint Committee shall be the Convener and Vice Convener of the Executive Sub-committee.”;
(b) That it be agreed that the Executive Sub-committee comprise elected members from Aberdeenshire Council, Angus Council, City of Edinburgh Council, Comhairle nan Eilean Sar, Dumfries & Galloway Council, Fife Council (Vice Convener), Glasgow City Council, Highland Council, North Ayrshire Council, North Lanarkshire Council, Renfrewshire Council (Convener), South Ayrshire Council, South Lanarkshire Council and Shetland Islands Council; and
(c) That the membership of the Executive Sub-committee be next reviewed at the meeting of the Joint Committee in December 2022.
This was agreed unanimously.
DECIDED:
(a) That Standing Order 40a be amended to read that “the Executive Sub-committee shall comprise a maximum of 14 members including the Convener and Vice Convener with the other members appointed by the Joint Committee. The Convener and Vice Convener of the Joint Committee shall be the Convener and Vice Convener of the Executive Sub-committee.”;
(b) That it be agreed that the Executive Sub-committee comprise elected members from Aberdeenshire Council, Angus Council, City Of Edinburgh Council, Comhairle nan Eilean Sar, Dumfries & Galloway Council, Fife Council, Glasgow City Council, Highland Council, North Ayrshire Council, North Lanarkshire Council (Vice Convener), Renfrewshire Council (Convener), South Ayrshire Council, South Lanarkshire Council and Shetland Islands Council; and
(c) That the membership of the Executive Sub-committee be next reviewed at the meeting of the Joint Committee in December 2022.