Agenda item

Appointment of Councillors to Serve on Outside Bodies

Report from the Assistant Chief Executive.

 

Recommendations

 

1.    That the Cabinet agrees that Councillors be appointed to serve on Outside Bodies, as detailed on the schedule in Appendix 1.

 

2.    That Cabinet instructs the Assistant Chief Executive to discontinue membership of Crestra Ltd (formerly Groundwork Creswell Ashfield and Mansfield).

 

Minutes:

Consideration was given to the report which detailed how outside bodies were external organisations which had a Council appointed representative but had their own governance structures.

 

Appointments to outside bodies were seen as an important mechanism for community leadership, partnership and joint working along with knowledge and information sharing. At the Annual Meeting on 19th May, 2017, the Council approved procedure rules that detailed how Councillors would be appointed to serve on outside bodies.

 

The report, therefore, presented the nominations received and recommended the appointment of the nominees to the various organisations and partnerships. 

 

The Leader advised that since the publication of the report, Councillor Wyatt had been nominated for the vacant Don Catchment Working Group position and the vacant National Association of British Market Authorities position. Councillor Sylvester had been nominated for the vacant Rotherham and District Citizen’s Advice Bureau position.

 

The report also recommended that Cabinet instruct the Assistant Chief Executive to discontinue membership of Crestra Ltd (formerly Groundwork Creswell Ashfield and Mansfield.) The geographical footprint of the organisation did not correspond with that of the Council and there had been no recent dealings with Crestra Ltd or under its former name of Groundwork Creswell, Ashfield and Mansfield.

 

Resolved: -

 

(1)  That Cabinet agrees that Councillors be appointed to serve on Outside bodies, as detailed on the schedule in Appendix 1.

 

(2)  That Cabinet instruct the Assistant Chief Executive to discontinue membership of Crestra Ltd (formerly Groundwork Creswell Ashfield and Mansfield.)

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