Issue - meetings

Report of the Leader

RESOLVED that

1. Nominations/appointments to the bodies in Appendix A respectively were made in accordance with the following principles:

• all nominations are made on the basis that the nominee/appointee is a representative of Cheltenham Borough Council insofar as that is compatible with any overriding legal duty to the outside body; and
• Cabinet reserves the right at any time to withdraw/terminate a nomination/appointment which it has made

2. Cabinet refer the nominations/appointments for St Margaret’s Hall User Group, Third Sector Services and Ubico to Council for determination as consensus cannot be achieved between all the political groups on the Council

The Leader of the Council introduced the report. He noted that at the last Cabinet meeting approval had been given to specific portfolio holder appointments. All members of the council had had an opportunity to input into the outside body process. There were now three appointments where agreement could not be reached between the groups. Therefore the nominations relating to St Margaret’s Hall User Group, Third Sector Services and the observer nomination on the Ubico board would be determined by Council on 21 July.

The Leader also stated that the current 5 members of the board of CBH would not be fully allocated as CBH was currently in the process of consulting on reducing the number of board members so that in the future it was likely that CBC would have 2 nominees rather than 5. This position had been endorsed by all the political groups.

The updated nominations are attached to these minutes for information.

RESOLVED THAT

1.                  Cabinet make nominations/appointments to the bodies in Appendix A respectively in accordance with the following principles:

·      all nominations are made on the basis that the nominee/appointee is a representative of Cheltenham Borough Council insofar as that is compatible with any overriding legal duty to the outside body; and

·      Cabinet reserves the right at any time to withdraw/terminate a nomination/appointment which it has made

2.                  the nominations/appointments for St Margaret’s Hall User Group, Third Sector Services and Ubico be referred to Council for determination as consensus cannot be achieved between all the political groups on the Council