Full Authority

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	Morley Borough Independent
Cllr G Almas	Cllr C Anderson	Cllr C Burke	Cllr A Hutchison
Cllr J Illingworth	Cllr D Hall	Cllr R Downes
Cllr M Midgley	Cllr P Harrand	Cllr J Sunderland
Cllr N Mohammed	Cllr D Kirton
Cllr S Nazir	Cllr M Pollard
Cllr D O’Donovan (Chair)	Cllr I Sanders
Cllr M Pervaiz
Cllr S Press
Cllr K Renshaw
Cllr F Shaheen
Cllr S Tulley (Vice chair)
Cllr L Whitehouse

: Cllr Gohar Almas – Labour Group

: Cllr Caroline Anderson – Conservative Group

: Cllr Cahal Burke – Liberal Democrat Group

: Cllr Ryk Downes – Liberal Democrat Group

: Cllr David Hall – Conservative Group

: Cllr Peter Harrand – Conservative Group

: Cllr Andrew Hutchinson – Morley Borough Independents

: Cllr John Illingworth – Labour Group

: Cllr David Kirton – Conservative Group

: Cllr Mirelle Midgley – Labour Group

: Cllr Nussrat Mohammed – Labour Group

: Cllr Sarfraz Nazir – Labour Group

: Cllr Darren O’Donovan – Labour Group

: Cllr Mussarat Pervaiz – Labour Group

: Cllr Mike Pollard – Conservative Group

: Cllr Susan Press – Labour Group

: Cllr Karen Renshaw – Labour Group

: Cllr Ian Sanders – Conservative Group

: Cllr Fozia Shaheen – Labour Group

: Cllr Jeanette Sunderland – Liberal Democrat Group

: Cllr Steve Tulley – Labour Group

: Cllr Lynne Whitehouse – Labour Group

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Meetings – Agendas and Minutes

Meeting 24 June 2021

West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Authority

Meeting to be held on Thursday 24 June 2021 at 10.30 am at Ossett Town Hall

This meeting is open to members of the public to attend. Due to restricted space to ensure social distancing is maintained please email committee.services@westyorksfire.gov.uk before 21 June to confirm your attendance so a seat(s) can be reserved. Seats will be allocated on a first come first served basis. You will receive an email confirmation of your allocation – please present this email in order to gain access into the meeting.

Agenda

1 Appointment of Chair

2 Appointment of Vice-chair

3 Membership of the Authority

Link to report

4 Chair’s announcements

5 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.

6 Urgent items

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.