North Yorkshire County Council

Scarborough & Whitby Area Constituency Committee

9 July 2021

Appointments to Local Bodies

1.0	Purpose of the Report
1.1	To enable appointments to Local Bodies in the Scarborough & Whitby Area Constituency Committee (ACC) area, previously made by the Yorkshire Coast & Moors Area Committee, to be extended in light of the deferment of the planned County Council elections to May 2022.

2.0       Background  

2.1       The appointments to Local Bodies for the area now covered by the Scarborough & Whitby Area Constituency Committee were made by the Yorkshire Coast & Moors Area Committee in 2017, following the County Council elections.

2.2       The Constitution identifies three categories of outside bodies. Those to which this Area Committee appoints are in Categories 2 and 3 (known as Local Bodies).  Category 2 outside bodies typically operate across the geographic area of more than one Electoral Division and appointments to them should be County Councillors.  The person appointed to a Category 3 outside body is expected to be a member of the local community, but

may be the local Member.

2.3       At the meetings of the Yorkshire Coast & Moors Area Committee, on 5 July 2017 the appointments to Category 2 outside bodies were made until “the County Council elections in 2021” and the appointments to Category 3 outside bodies were made “until a replacement is appointed”.

3.0       Process for extending appointments

3.1       The recent deferment of the planned County Council elections from May 2021 to May 2022 means that the appointments to Category 2 outside bodies need to be extended.  The appointments to Category 3 outside bodies can stand as they are, unless committee members are aware of any vacancies that need to be filled.

3.2       The current appointments to the Category 2 outside bodies previously appointed by the Yorkshire Coast & Moors Area Committee that now fall within the remit of this committee are as follows:

· Citizens Advice Scarborough and District – Cllr Roberta Swiers (plus 1 Sub)

· Scarborough United Scholarships Foundation with the John Kendal Trust – Cllr Janet Jefferson (plus 1 Sub)

· North Yorkshire and Cleveland Coastal Forum Executive Committee – Cllr Joe Plant; Cllr Derek Bastiman, Cllr Andrew Jenkinson plus Sub - Cllr Helen Swiers

3.3       The full list of the Category 2 and Category 3 outside bodies, as currently specified in the Council Constitution, are detailed in Appendix 1.

3.4       The committee is asked to appoint to the end of the current Council in May 2022. 

4.0       Recommendations

4.1       That the committee extends the current appointments to the Category 2 outside bodies that fall within the remit of this committee to the end of the current Council in May 2022.

4.2       That the committee considers whether any appointments to Category 3 outside bodies need to be made to fill any vacancies that have arisen.

Barry Khan

Assistant Chief Executive (Legal and Democratic Services)

County Hall

NORTHALLERTON

19 May 2021

Report Author: Melanie Carr, Principal Democratic Services and Scrutiny Officer

Appendix 1 – Extract from Council Constitution

Background documents:

Yorkshire Coast & Moors Area Committee papers for the meeting held on 5 July 2017 – Yorkshire Coast & Moors Area Committee Agenda

County Council Constitution – New Council Constitutions (northyorks.gov.uk)