Agenda item

To receive and consider a report from the Chief Officer (Democratic and Central Services) outlining the Member Management Committee’s role in relation to Elected Member Appointments to Outside Bodies and asking the Committee to agree a schedule detailing the organisations that the Council will continue to make an appointment to, and agree nominations to the organisations which fall to the Committee to make an appointment.

The Governance Officer presented a report of the Chief Officer, Democratic and Central Services which outlined the Member Management Committee’s role in relation to Elected Member appointments to Outside Bodies.

The following information was appended to the report:

-  Appointments to Outside Body Procedure Rules

-  List of Outside Bodies reserved to the Member Management Committee

-  Leeds Children’s Trust – 0-11 Partnership – terms of reference and other supporting information.

The Chair welcomed to the meeting, Guy Close and Kevin Tomkinson, both from Governance Services, to present the report and respond to Members’ questions and comments.

The key areas of discussion were:

·  Clarification sought regarding Council representation on academies.

·  Whether there was the need to review Council representation on those Outside Bodies that undertook their own recruitment arrangements.

RESOLVED –

(a)  That the Appointments to Outside Bodies Procedure Rules as attached at Appendix 1, be noted;

(b)  That the schedule attached at Appendix 2 detailing those organisations that the Council will continue to make an appointment to, be approved;

(c)  That the cessation of the Early Years Service Challenge and Advisory Partnership and subsequent establishment of the Leeds Children’s Trust –

0-11 Partnership, to include 3 Members, one each from the Labour (Councillor Dowson), Liberal Democrat and Conservative Groups, be noted;

(d)  That the appointment of a Member to the Board of Hunslet Hawks RLFC be categorised as Strategic and Key Partnership and determined by the Member Management Committee;

(e)  That the nominations which fall to the Committee to make an appointment to, including, Councillor Lowe replacing Councillor J McKenna on the Cluster – ACES (Armley Cluster Extended Services), and the change in political representation on the Leeds Jewish Welfare Board from Conservative to Labour, be approved;

(f)  That the casting vote on the Groundwork Board be allocated to a

Member of the Labour Group;

(g) That the relevant whip be authorised to appoint to the vacancies in

accordance with the Appointment to Outside Bodies Procedure Rules;

(h)  That the change of appointments since the last meeting of the Committee as detailed in paragraph 3.7 of the report, be approved.

(Councillor Lowe declared a personal interest in this item in her capacity as Chief Executive of Touchstone.)