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            The Democratic Services Manager advised the Committee that there were a number of Outside Bodies which requested that a Member or several Members sit on the Board of their Body.  Accordingly, as it was the start of the new Council term, these appointments needed to be made.

 

            He explained that several appointments to Outside Bodies were determined by the Department of the Environment to fall within the process established in the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 for Positions of Responsibility.  Those were arc 21, the Partnership Panel, the Northern Ireland Housing Council, the Reserve Forces and Cadets Association and the Policing and Community Safety Partnership and its 4 District Partnerships.  Those appointments were determined using the d’Hondt system of proportionality alongside the appointments for the Lord Mayor, the Deputy Lord Mayor and the Chairpersons and Deputy Chairpersons of the 5 Standing Committees of the Council and these had been appointed at the Annual meeting of the Council in May.

 

            In considering the requests for appointments to Outside Bodies which were not considered to be Positions of Responsibility, the Council was free to choose any methodology it so wished.  However, in keeping with the process of proportionality which was enshrined in the 2014 Act and which had been employed in the Council for a number of years, the Committee had approved of the use of the Sainte Lague system.

 

            The process was for all of the appointments to Outside Bodies to be grouped together in one pool and the Party Leaders at a meeting on 14^th June had selected the positions set out in the appendix below.

 

            In order for a process to be established which dealt with any additional requests from Outside Bodies for Council representation during the Council Term, it was recommended that the party or parties who would have had the next available choice(s) under the Sainte Lague table would be asked to nominate a representative(s).

 

            With regard to NILGA, its Constitution required that the Council’s 10 nominations reflect the overall balance of the political parties on the Council.  That would not be able to be achieved if the 10 positions were to be included in a larger pool of positions.  Therefore, for that reason, the Party Leaders had agreed that the 10 nominations be allocated using a separate Sainte Lague exercise.

 

            The outcome of a Sainte Lague exercise provided for 3 Sinn Fein, 2 DUP, 2 Alliance, 1 SDLP, 1 Green and 1 PBPA nominations:

 

 

Appointments to Outside Bodies

14th June, 2019

 

National Association of Councillors

SF	Councillor Magennis
SF	Councillor Magee
DUP	Alderman Sandford
DUP	Councillor T Kelly
DUP	Councillor Pankhurst
PBPA	Councillor Ferguson
UUP	Alderman Rodgers
ALL	Councillor Hanvey

 

Northern Ireland Local Government Association (NILGA)

SF	Councillor Corr
SF	Councillor Garrett
SF	Councillor Murphy
DUP	Alderman Haire
DUP	Alderman Sandford
ALL	Councillor Howard
ALL	Councillor Mulholland
SDLP	Councillor de Faoite
GREEN	Councillor Groogan
PBPA	Councillor Ferguson

 

Belfast City Centre Management Board

Green	Councillor Flynn
SF	Councillor Corr

 

George Best Belfast City Airport Forum

DUP	Alderman Haire
PUP	Councillor Kyle

 

Visit Belfast

SF	Councillor Walsh
DUP	Councillor Cobain
ALL	Councillor Hanvey
SDLP	Councillor McCusker

Active Belfast Ltd Board

SF	Councillor Carson
SF	Councillor Corr
SF	Councillor McLaughlin
DUP	Councillor Newton

 

 

Association of Port Health Authorities – Executive Board

SDLP	Councillor Heading

 

Belfast Hills Partnership

SF	Councillor Corr

 

Board of the Ulster Orchestra Society Limited

SDLP	Councillor Whyte

 

Cathedral Quarter Trust

ALL	Councillor McAllister
DUP	Councillor Pankhurst

 

Grand Opera House Trust

UUP	Alderman Copeland

 

Groundwork Northern Ireland

DUP	Councillor Dorrian

 

Lagan Canal Restoration Trust

SF	Councillor McAteer

 

Lagan Rural Partnership Local Action Group

All	Councillor Nicholl

 

Lagan Valley Regional Park Advisory Committee

ALL	Councillor Nicholl
SF	Councillor McAteer
DUP	Councillor Bunting

           

 

 

Linenhall Library Board

PBPA	Councillor Matt Collins

 

Local Strategic Partnership on Travellers Issues

SF	Councillor Groves
PBPA	Councillor Michael Collins

 

Lyric Theatre Education Advisory Panel

ALL	Councillor McDonough-Brown
GREEN	Councillor Groogan

 

Northern Ireland Amenity Council

ALL	Councillor McReynolds

 

Northern Ireland Rural Development Programme

DUP	Councillor Graham
DUP	Councillor Bunting

 

Somme Advisory Council

DUP	Councillor Graham
ALL	Councillor Long
SDLP	Councillor McKeown

 

Tall Ships

DUP	Alderman Kingston
SDLP	Councillor de Faoite

 

Sustainable Community &Demographics Working Group

GREEN

Councillor O’Hara

 

NILGA Policy & Learning Network - Reform, Devolution and Improvement

SF	Councillor McAteer

 

NILGA Policy & Learning Network - Local Economic Development, Investment and International Affairs

ALL	Councillor Hanvey

 

NILGA Policy & Learning Network - Place Shaping and Infrastructure

SF	Councillor S Baker

 

NILGA Policy & Learning Network - Elected Member Development

SF	Councillor Canavan

 

NILGA Policy & Learning Network - Health, Social and Environmental Wellbeing

SF	Councillor Donnelly

 

            The Committee:

 

1.      Noted that the Council had agreed that all of the appointments to Outside Bodies would be grouped into one overall pool for the purposes of allocating positions.

2.      Agreed to nominate the representatives to NILGA as a separate one off exercise as set out in the report.

3.      Noted that the Council had agreed to use the Sainte Lague methodology to provide an order of party political choices of these positions.

4.      Agreed to appoint the positions on Outside Bodies as set out above.

5.      Agreed , should any other requests be received for Council representation on Outside Bodies during the Council Term, the party or parties who would have had the next available choice(s) under the Sainte Lague table would be asked to nominate a representative(s).