Issue - meetings

To consider a report on alternative approaches to the election of the Mayor and Deputy Mayor and on a Mayoral Protocol.

The Committee considered a report outlining a number of alternative approaches to the election of the Mayor and Deputy Mayor, and the development of a Mayoral Protocol.

The Council was required to elect a Mayor and Deputy Mayor each year. There were clear benefits in having an agreed mechanism to assist in this task. A number of approaches employed by local authorities in the North-West and the former Cheshire authorities were outlined in the report. Members felt that a sub-committee should be established to consider the approaches in greater detail with a view to recommending a suitable mechanism for adoption by Cheshire East Council.

Members also considered a draft Mayoral Code of Practice which could inform the work of the proposed sub-committee.

The sub-committee would report back to the Governance and Constitution Committee in due course with a view to recommendations being submitted to Council.

RESOLVED

That

(1)   a Mayoral Sub-Committee be appointed with powers to:

?       decide upon and adopt an approach to be used in respect of the election of the Mayor and Deputy Mayor

?       utilise the adopted approach in order to present recommendations in respect of the proposed election of a Mayor and Deputy Mayor for the municipal year 2010/2011

?       make recommendations upon the adoption of a Mayoral Code of Practice

(2)   the Sub-Committee comprise eight Members (5C:1LD:1L:1I).