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Decision details

Election of Chair to the North Yorkshire Police, Fire and Crime Panel

Decision Maker: Chief Executive Officer

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Decision:

The Chief Executive Officer considered the recommendation of the Members of the North Yorkshire Police, Fire and Crime Panel at their informal meeting held on Thursday 22nd July 2021, and agreed that Councillor Carl Les be appointed Chair to the Panel until July 2022, for the reasons set out below in this decision record.
By whom: Richard Flinton, Chief Executive Officer, under his emergency delegated powers and after consultation with the Members of the North Yorkshire Police, Fire and Crime Panel.
Please note that as a non-executive decision by an officer, this decision is not open to call-in.

Reasons for the decision:

Under his delegated decision making powers in the Officers’ Delegation Scheme in the Council’s Constitution, the Chief Executive Officer has power, in cases of emergency, to take any decision which could be taken by the Council, the Executive or a committee.
Following on from the expiry of the Local Authorities and Police and Crime Panels (Coronavirus) (Flexibility of Local Authority and Police and Crime Panel Meetings) (England and Wales) Regulations 2020 (“the 2020 Regulations”), which allowed for committee meetings to be held remotely, the County Council resolved at its meeting on 5 May 2021 that, for the present time, in light of the continuing Covid-19 pandemic circumstances, remote live-broadcast committee meetings should continue as informal meetings of the committee members, with any formal decisions required being taken by the Chief Executive Officer under his emergency decision making powers and after consultation with other Officers and Members as appropriate and after taking into account any views of the relevant Committee Members. This approach will be reviewed by full Council at its July meeting.
The Chief Executive Officer has taken all relevant information into account in exercising his emergency delegated powers in this matter, including considering the views of the North Yorkshire Police, Fire and Crime Panel Members.
The reasons for the decision in this matter are as follows:
•The Police, Fire and Crime Panel must appoint a Chair, annually, at its July meeting for a term of one year.
•The Chair must come from the Appointed (councillor) Members to the Panel.
•At their informal meeting of 22nd July 2021, Councillor Carl Les was nominated and seconded by Members of the Panel.
•There were no additional nominations for Chair and Panel Members gave their approval to recommending that Cllr Les be recommended as Panel Chair until July 2022.

Alternative options considered:

N/A.

Publication date: 26/07/2021

Date of decision: 22/07/2021