Agenda item

Report of the Town Clerk.

The Committee considered a report of the Town Clerk regarding their Terms of Reference and frequency of meetings.

The Town Clerk drew Members’ attention to paragraph (b) of the Committee’s existing Terms of Reference. She reported that both the Markets and the Port Health and Environmental Services Committee had requested that the wording regarding the appointment of the Director of Markets and Consumer Protection (which currently read that each of the relevant Committees would work ‘in consultation’ with one another on this task), should be amended to read that they would, instead, be ‘acting jointly’ on the matter. It was hoped that this amendment would make it clear that none of the three Committees involved in the appointment process took priority over the other.

The Committee were supportive of this amendment.

RESOLVED – That,

a)          the Terms of Reference of the Licensing Committee be amended for submission to the Court, as follows:

To be responsible for:-

(a)  the appointment of the Director of Markets and Consumer Protection (in consultation acting jointly with the Port Health and Environmental Services and Licensing Committees); and

b)       Members agree that the Committee continue to meet four times per annum.