States Minutes 24th January 1989

THE STATES assembled on Tuesday, 24th January, 1989 at 10.15 a.m. under the Presidency of the Bailiff ,

Sir Peter Crill, C.B.E. ____________

His Excellency The Lieutenant Governor, Admiral Sir William Pillar, G.B.E., K.C.B., was present.

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All members were present with the exception of –

Senator Richard Joseph Shenton – absent. Senator John William Ellis – ill.

Senator Terence John Le Main – out of the Island.

Derek Ryder Maltwood, Deputy of St. Mary – out of the Island.

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Prayers ____________

Connétable of Grouville – welcome.

The Bailiff , on behalf of the Assembly, welcomed to the States the newly  elected   Connétable  of   Grouville ,  Mr. Richard  Winter Le Sauteur.

Subordinate legislation tabled.

The following enactments were laid before the States, namely –

1. Fire  Service  (General  Provisions)  (Amendment No. 12) (Jersey) Order, 1989. R & O 7874.

21   Price : 50p

2. Collective Investment Funds (Recognized Funds) (General Provisions) (Amendment No. 2) (Jersey) Order, 1989. R & O 7875.
3. Depositors and Investors (Prevention of Fraud) (List of Registered Persons) (Jersey) Order, 1989. R & O 7876.

Island Development Committee: appointment of member.

THE STATES appointed Richard Winter Le Sauteur, Connétable of Grouville , as a member of the Island Development Committee.

Resources Recovery Board: appointment of member.

THE STATES appointed Richard Winter Le Sauteur, Connétable of Grouville , as a member of the Resources Recovery Board.

Matters lodged.

The following subjects were lodged "au Greffe" –

1. Draft Road Traffic (No. 32) (Jersey) Regulations, 198 . P.4/89.

Presented by the Public Works Committee.

2. Draft Act dated with regard to the provision of a minimum income for elected Members of the States. P.5/89.

Presented by the Legislation Committee.

3. Draft Regulation of Undertakings and Development (Amendment No. 4) (Jersey) Law, 1988 (Appointed Day) Act, 198 . P.7/89.

Presented by the Finance and Economics Committee.

4. Draft Regulation of Undertakings and Development (Amendment No. 5) (Jersey) Regulations, 198 . P.8/89. Presented by the Finance and Economics Committee.

THE STATES decided to take the abovementioned subjects into consideration on 7th February, 1989.

Draft Lodging Houses (Registration) (Amendment) (Jersey) Law, 198 . P.170/88.

THE STATES acceded to the request of the President of the Housing Committee that consideration of the draft Lodging Houses (Registration) (Amendment) (Jersey) Law, 198 (lodged on 13th December, 1988) be deferred from 31st January, 1989 to a later date.

Essential employees: leasing of accommodation. Statement.

The President of the Housing Committee made a statement in the following terms –

"In the States on Tuesday, 17th January, 1989, comments were made by certain Members concerning the high rental of a flat which the Establishment Committee is leasing for an  essential  employee  employed in the public service. I wish to appraise Members of the procedure relating to the housing of public sector essential employees.

Essential employees employed in the public sector are normally required to occupy (j) category units of accommodation (i.e. flats or houses which are not specifically designated (a-h) and not, therefore, reserved for persons with local housing qualifications). In this way, my Committee treats public service essential employees in the same way as their counterparts employed in the private sector.

Where a States employing committee wishes to lease a property for the occupation of an essential employee, then that committee makes the necessary arrangements, just as a private company does. With the assistance of its own officers, and possibly the States Land and Property Office, it locates a suitable property and negotiates the lease. The Housing Committee is not involved, other than to satisfy itself that the employee in question is essential' in terms of Regulation 1(1)(j) of the Housing Regulations; that the unit of accommodation to be leased has a clear 1(1)(j) classification; and that the unit does not exceed the employee's personal requirements (e.g. a single person would not normally be permitted to occupy a unit with more than one bedroom). The terms of the lease and level of rent paid is a matter for the employing committee itself."

Policy and Resources Committee and Finance and Manpower Committee – appointment (P.117/88): third amendments. P.2/89.

THE STATES, having previously adopted paragraph 1, as amended, continued discussion of the amended Proposition of the Special Committee on the review of machinery of government regarding the appointment of a Policy and Resources Committee and a Finance and Manpower Committee.

Paragraph 2(a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (h) and (j) was adopted.

Paragraph 3(a) and (b) was adopted, as amended, the States having rejected an amendment of Senator Anne Baal that in paragraph 3(a) after the word "Establishment" there should be added the words "and Tourism", having rejected an amendment of Deputy Francis Hedley Morel of St. Saviour that for paragraph 3 there should be substituted "3. to appoint a President and eight members" and having deleted in paragraph 3(a) the words "with the Greffier of the States and the Economic Adviser".

Members present voted on the amendment of Deputy Morel as follows –

"Pour" (12)

Senators

Brooke, Carter.

Connétable s

St. Peter , St. Mary , St. Saviour .

Deputies

Morel (S), Trinity , Norman(C), Buesnel(H), Bailhache (H), Rabet(H), Baudains(H).

"Contre" (30)

Senators

Jeune , Binnington, Horsfall, Baal, Rothwell, Le Maistre.

Connétable s

St. John , St. Clement , St. Lawrence , St. Brelade , Trinity , St. Martin , Grouville .

Deputies

Le Gallais(S), Roche)S), Le Quesne(S), Rumboll(H), Grouville , Beadle(B), Billot(s), St. John , St. Peter , St. Martin , Baudains(C), Horne(H), Le Sueur (H), St. Ouen , Coutanche(L), Huelin(B), Jordan(B).

Paragraphs 4 and 5 were adopted.

THE STATES, adopting the Proposition, as amended –

1. agreed to create a committee of the States to be known as the Policy and Resources Committee.
2. agreed that the responsibilities of the Policy and Resources Committee should be –

1. to produce, through a process of consultation, and for approval where necessary by the States, a framework of strategic policies and objectives, to which committees would be required to have regard in the formulation of their own policies;
2. to ensure the overall co-ordination of those policies and objectives and to recommend to the States relative priorities in the use of money and/or manpower resources;
3. to ensure the effective execution by committees of their respective policies and to review performance against objectives;
4. to initiate the examination of, or to require other committees to examine, particular issues where –

1. the issue falls within the area of responsibility of more than one committee;
2. the issue does not fall within the area of responsibility of any particular committee;
3. otherwise, the Committee believes that issues need to be examined;

and,  where  necessary,  to  present  a report and proposition to the States;

5. to consider, and to comment on to the States as necessary, all reports and propositions which raise –

1. issues of importance for the Island as a whole;

2. issues which affect the interests of other committees;
3. issues involving major resource implications;

6. to review the structure of committees and present for consideration by the States, proposals for the restructuring of committees and departments where necessary;
7. to present proposals for the effective management of States' properties;
8. to present an annual report to the States for debate;

(j)  to assume the responsibilities of the Constitution Committee.

3. agreed that the members of the Policy and Resources Committee should be –

1. the President of the Finance and Economics, Island Development and Establishment Committees, as ex-officio members;
2. six members to be appointed by the States;

4. agreed that the Policy and Resources Committee should appoint a group of chief officers together with the Greffier of the States and the Economic Adviser, to assist it, with the group having the power to co-opt such other officers as may from time to time prove necessary;
5. requested the Establishment Committee to agree to an increase in the authorised establishment of the States' Greffe so as to allow the appointment thereto of an officer of suitable calibre to act as executive officer to the Committee.

STATES MINUTES

Hostel for homeless teenagers. P.174/88.

24th January, 1989

THE STATES, adopting a Proposition of the Education Committee, agreed that the vote of credit of £175,000 granted to the Committee in the 1987 Budget under the heading – Residential Children's Home (Vote No. C.0509) should be used to purchase a property to accommodate homeless teenagers in the care of the Education Committee.

Field 967, La Rue de la Vallée, St. Mary: rezoning of land. P.1/89.

THE STATES adopted a Proposition of the Island Development Committee and agreed to rezone Field 967, St. Mary , measuring 19.5 vergées as shown on Drawing No. 09.215.1, from sensitive landscape area of the agricultural priority zone to use as a granite quarry, having rejected the proposition of Senator John Stephen Rothwell that the proposition be referred back to the Committee.

THE STATES rose at 12.50 p.m.

R.S. GRAY Deputy Greffier of the States.