North Yorkshire Council

 

 

Skipton and Ripon Area Constituency Committee

 

14th December 2023

 

Appointments to Outside Bodies

 

1.0       PURPOSE OF REPORT

 

1.1       To invite the Area Constituency Committee to make appointments, on behalf of the

            Council, to the Gouthwaite Reservoir Board of Management.

 

 

2.0       BACKGROUND        

 

2.1       The Council’s Constitution identifies various outside bodies to which this Area Constituency Committee is responsible for making appointments to, on behalf of the Council. This Area Constituency Committee appoints to several Category 2 outside bodies.

 

2.2       Category 2 outside bodies typically operate across the geographic area of more than one Electoral Division.  The Constitution states, with regard to Category 2 outside bodies, that:-

 

            ·           those appointed should be Councillors;        

·           some Officer briefing or other support may be provided;

·           any report back will be to the Area Constituency Committee (which may report to the Executive on it, if appropriate); and

·           expenses will be paid to Councillors unless they are payable by the body appointed to.

 

2.3       At the ACC meeting of 7th September 2023, appointments to these Category 2 outside bodies were approved. Since then, it has been confirmed that there are an additional two appointments to approve, as seen in red at Appendix A.

 

2.4       Parish Councillor Stanley Lumley and Mr David Gotto were appointed to this outside body by Harrogate Borough Council and have been sitting on it since.

           

3.0       APPOINTMENTS TO OUTSIDE BODIES

 

3.1       Members appointed by the Area Constituency Committee to the outside bodies listed in Appendix A, when acting on behalf of those other organisations, are covered by the Council’s Indemnity Policy for Officers and Members.          

 

4.0       TERM OF APPOINTMENTS

 

4.1       Past practice has been to appoint representatives to outside bodies to serve until the date of the subsequent Council elections.

 

4.2       In accordance with 4.1, it is recommended below that the appointments now made to Category 2 outside bodies should be “to serve until the Council elections in 2027”.

 

5.0       NOMINATION AND APPOINTMENT PROCESS

 

5.1       At today’s meeting of the Area Constituency Committee, Members will be invited to approve, by a show of hands, the two nominations highlighted in Appendix A.

 

6.0       ALTERNATIVE OPTIONS CONSIDERED

 

6.1       Members may choose not to approve the nominations highlighted in Appendix A. New nominations could be suggested or the appointments could be left vacant.

 

7.0       IMPLICATIONS

 

7.1       There are no equalities, finance, legal or climate change implications arising from the recommendations in this report.

             

8.0       REASONS FOR RECOMMENDATIONS

 

8.1       Councillor Stanley Lumley and Mr David Gotto were appointed to this outside body by Harrogate Borough Council and have been sitting on it since.

 

9.0

RECOMMENDATION(S)

             

 

i) That the appointments to Gouthwaite Resevoir Board of Management highlighted in Appendix A are approved, with those appointed to represent the Council on that outside body until the Council elections in 2027.

 

 

 

            APPENDICES:

            Appendix A –  Table of Appointments for Category 2 Outside Bodies

 

BACKGROUND DOCUMENTS:

North Yorkshire Council Constitution. Constitution

 

6 December 2023

 

David Smith, Democratic Services and Scrutiny Officer