Issue - meetings

That delegated authority be given to the Chief Executive and Leader to respond to the consultation paper.

The Chief Executive introduced the report which sought approval of a Council response to the Welsh Government (WG) consultation on electoral arrangements for merged authorities.

                        The report provided information on key issues including the total number of Councillors for each merged authority and benchmark Councillor:elector ratios.  The closing date for responses was 9 November 2015. 

The consultation questions were attached as appendix 1 to the report and attached at appendix 2 were initial guiding comments provided by the Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA).  The Chief Executive suggested that the Council base its response on the resolutions it had passed on similar consultations and Boundary Commission led boundary reviews in the past.

Councillor Phillips asked for clarification as to how elections were funded and the Chief Executive explained that this was via national government for all elections except local elections.  The latter were funded by the principal and town and community councils. 

RESOLVED:

            That delegated authority be given to the Chief Executive and Leader to respond to the consultation paper.