Full Authority

Annual meeting of the Fire Authority

The Annual meeting of the West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Authority was live-streamed on 25 June 2020 at 10.30am.

To view the meeting please click here

Delegated Powers

The Authority is a corporate body with the legal responsibility for making decisions about all matters concerning the functions, powers, duties and responsibilities of the Authority which are invested in it by statute and / or common law.

However, only the Authority will exercise the following functions:

Variations to standing orders and financial standing orders
Revenue budget and capital plan
Levying or issuing a precept or borrowing on money
Major policy issues including:

– number and location of fire stations

– major organisational variations to the management or command structure

– major variations to the establishment

– proposals for expenditure not within approved revenue or capital plans

Adoption of Members’ allowances scheme
Appointing Chair and Vice Chair of the Authority and of the committees and sub-committees
Any other matter which by law must be reserved to the Authority itself

Membership

Labour	Conservative	Liberal Democrat
Cllr M Akhtar	Cllr C Anderson	Cllr R Downes
Cllr G Almas	Cllr D Hall	Cllr J Sunderland
Cllr T Austin	Cllr P Harrand
Cllr J Fenton-Glynn	Cllr R Hunt
Cllr R Grahame	Cllr D Kirton
Cllr D Jenkins	Cllr M Pollard
Cllr N Mohammed
Cllr D O’Donovan (Chair)
Cllr M Pervaiz
Cllr K Renshaw
Cllr F Shaheen
Cllr A Tait
Cllr S Tulley (Vice chair)
Cllr A Wenham

Meetings – Agendas and Minutes

Coronavirus

Remote meeting arrangements

We are currently using remote meeting arrangements for our Committee meetings. These will be live-streamed – the appropriate link will be displayed on each Committee page a few days before each scheduled meeting.

Membership

: Cllr Mahmood Akhtar – Labour Group

: Cllr Gohar Almas – Labour Group

: Cllr Caroline Anderson – Conservative Group

: Cllr Tracey Austin – Labour Group

: Cllr Ryk Downes – Liberal Democrat Group

: Cllr Josh-Fenton-Glynn – Labour Group

: Cllr Ronald Grahame – Labour Group

: Cllr David Hall – Conservative Group

: Cllr Peter Harrand – Conservative Group

: Cllr Richard Hunt – Conservative Group

: Cllr David Jenkins – Labour Group

: Cllr David Kirton – Conservative Group

: Cllr Nussrat Mohammed – Labour Group

: Cllr Darren O’Donovan – Labour Group

: Cllr Mussarat Pervaiz – Labour Group

: Cllr Mike Pollard – Conservative Group

: Cllr Karen Renshaw – Labour Group

: Cllr Fozia Shaheen – Labour Group

: Cllr Jeanette Sunderland – Liberal Democrat Group

: Cllr Angela Tait – Labour Group

: Cllr Steve Tulley – Labour Group

: Cllr Angela Wenham – Labour Group

Meeting 25 June 2020

West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Authority

Meeting to be held on Thursday 25 June 2020 at 10.30 am by Microsoft Teams virtual meeting facilities

Agenda

1 Appointment of Chair

2 Appointment of Vice-chair

3 Chair’s announcements

4 Admission of the public

Members are asked to consider whether, by resolution, to exclude the public from the meeting during the items of business marked with an ‘E’ reference, because of the possibility of the disclosure of exempt information.

5 Urgent items – Programme of meetings amendment 2020 – 21

To determine whether there are any additional items of business which, by reason of special circumstances, the Chair believes should be considered at the meeting.

Link to report

6 Declarations of interest

To consider any declaration of disclosable pecuniary interest in relation to any item of business on the agenda.

7 Membership of the Authority / Committee membership and other appointments 2020 – 21

Link to report

8 Minutes of meeting held on 21 February 202

Link to Minutes

9 Matters arising

10 Minutes of Committees held since 21 February 2020 and of other relevant Outside Bodies

Link to report

11 Authority Constitution- annual review

Link to report