Decision details
Appointments to local bodies (Richmond Area Constituency Committee held on 9 June 2021)
Decision Maker: Chief Executive Officer
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Decision:
Having considered the report on
‘Appointments to Local Bodies’ and the views of the
members of the Richmond Area Constituency Committee (ACC), which
had been published 5 clear days ahead of the meeting on the Council
website, the Chief Executive Officer agreed to:
• Extend the current appointments to the Category 2 outside
bodies that fall within the remit of the Richmond ACC to the end of
the current Council in May 2022
• Appoint County Councillor David Hugill to replace Mr T
Swales on the Appleton Wiske Educational Foundation
• Seek a nomination to fill the vacant seat on the William
Cockin Educational Foundation (Melsonby) from County Councillor
Angus Thompson
• Note the change of representatives on the Preston Education
Foundation (Stokesley) to Dr Stephen Barclay Tawse and Shona
Robertson, and extend their appointments to the end of the current
Council in May 2022, accordingly.
By whom: Richard Flinton, Chief Executive Officer, under his
emergency delegated powers and after consultation with the
Executive Members.
Please note that usually a non-key executive decision by an officer
is not open to call-in, however in a spirit of transparency such
decisions by the Chief Executive Officer under his emergency
delegated powers WILL be open to call in.
Reasons for the decision:
Under his delegated decision making powers in
the Officers’ Delegation Scheme in the Council’s
Constitution, the Chief Executive Officer has power, in cases of
emergency, to take any decision which could be taken by the
Council, the Executive or a committee.
Following on from the expiry of the Local Authorities and Police
and Crime Panels (Coronavirus) (Flexibility of Local Authority and
Police and Crime Panel Meetings) (England and Wales) Regulations
2020 (“the 2020 Regulations”), which allowed for
committee meetings to be held remotely, the County Council resolved
at its meeting on 5 May 2021 that, for the present time, in light
of the continuing Covid-19 pandemic circumstances, remote
live-broadcast committee meetings should continue, with any formal
decisions required being taken by the Chief Executive Officer under
his emergency decision making powers and after consultation with
other Officers and Members as appropriate and after taking into
account any views of the relevant Committee Members. This approach
will be reviewed by full Council at its July meeting.
The Chief Executive Officer took all relevant information into
account in exercising his emergency delegated powers in this
matter, including considering the views of the members of the
Richmond Area Constituency Committee, and agreed the
recommendations of the Committee Members.
Alternative options considered:
Local Bodies - None as the deferment of the
Council elections from May 2021 to May 2022 has meant that the
terms of all Council committees, Outside Bodies and Local Bodies
have needed to be extended for 12 months or there would be no
representation upon them.
Appointments to Appleton Wiske Educational Foundation and Preston
Education Foundation (Stokesley) – None as the
representatives named above were proposed and seconded as the
representatives for appointment to those bodies. An uncontested
vote was held and the appointments unanimously supported.
Publication date: 10/06/2021
Date of decision: 10/06/2021
Effective from: 18/06/2021