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MAIDSTONE BOROUGH COUNCIL
ANNUAL COUNCIL MEETING
16 MAY 2012
REPORT OF THE HEAD OF DEMOCRATIC SERVICES
Report Prepared by Neil Harris
1.1
Notification
has been received of a change in the size of the Political Groups on the
Council. This therefore necessitates a review of the allocation of seats on
Committees.
1.1.1 The Constitution of
the Council is now as follows:
Conservative 30
Liberal Democrat 19
Independent 5
Labour 1
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1.1.2 The allocation on individual Committees is set out in Appendix A, whilst Appendix B demonstrates the political balance on the various Committee sizes. You will see that on a Committee of 10 it is not possible to apportion all the seats as the vacant seat can go to either the Conservative or Liberal Democrat Groups. A solution to this difficulty is to increase the membership of these Committees from 10 Members to 11 Members (this affects the Licensing Committee and Licensing Act 2003 Committee only). Appendix C reflects this change.
1.1.3 The allocation of seats to the Standard Committee has not been included in Appendix A because it does not need to reflect the political balance of the Authority. However, the Committee does have 6 Borough Council representatives and the political balance for 6 is 3 Conservatives, 2 Liberal Democrats and 1 Independent. Last year the representation was 3 Conservatives, 2 Liberal Democrats and 1 Independent.
1.2
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