Decision details

Having considered the report on ‘Appointments to Local Bodies (Extension of Existing Appointments)’, which had been published 5 clear days ahead of the meeting on the Council website, and the views of the members of the Harrogate and Knaresborough Area Constituency Committee (ACC), the Chief Executive Officer agreed to:
a) Extend the current appointments to the Category 2 outside bodies that fall within the remit of the Harrogate and Knaresborough ACC (as duplicated below) to the end of the current Council in May 2022:-
- Craven and Harrogate Districts Citizens Advice Bureau – Cllr Cliff Trotter.
- Harrogate District Community Safety Local Delivery Team – Cllr Cliff Trotter.
- Knaresborough Community Centre Committee – Cllr Zoe Metcalfe.
- Nidderdale AONB Joint Advisory Committee – Substitute: Cllr Paul Haslam.
- Renaissance Knaresborough Management Committee – Cllr Zoe Metcalfe.
b) Nominate County Councillor Matt Scott to the vacant NYCC position on the Richard Taylor Educational Foundation.
By whom: Richard Flinton, Chief Executive Officer, under his emergency delegated powers and after consultation with the Harrogate and Knaresborough Area Constituency Committee 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.
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 Harrogate and Knaresborough Area Constituency Committee, and to ensure appropriate representation on the outside bodies.

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.
Nomination to Richard Taylor Educational Foundation (a Category 3 Local Body) – None as Schedule 5 to the County Council’s Constitution states, in respect of Category 3 Local Bodies, that “the local Member will make a nomination to the relevant Area Committee”. The joint nomination of the two local Members for the Bilton and Nidd Gorge Division (ie to nominate County Councillor Matt Scott to the vacant NYCC position on the Richard Taylor Educational Foundation) was submitted to the informal meeting of Harrogate and Knaresborough ACC held on 10 June 2021. No Member voted against that proposal at the ACC’s informal meeting.