Agenda item

Report from the Assistant Chief Executive.

Recommendations:

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

2.    That the amendments to the outside bodies list for 2022/23 be noted.

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.

Paragraph 2.4 of the report detailed a number of organisations that had either been removed from or added to the outside bodies list.  The appointments to the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority were now dealt with at the Annual Council meeting and as such had been removed from the outside bodies list.

At the meeting it was reported that the Rotherham Dementia Action Group and Thomas Rotherham College Board would be removed from the outside bodies list. It was also reported that Councillor Atkin would be appointed as the Rotherham representative on the Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation with Councillor Wyatt being the substitute when their new governance arrangements came into effect in July 2022.

Resolved:-

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

2.    That the amendments to the outside bodies list for 2022/23 be noted.

3.    That the amendments made to the outside bodies listed during the meeting, relating to Rotherham Dementia Action Group, Thomas Rotherham College Board and Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation, be agreed and implemented.