Agenda item

To appoint the Committees until the first meeting of the Court in April 2017 and to agree the terms of reference and constitution for each Committee.

 

(A list of the proposed appointments, terms of reference including proposed amendments, and constitutions has been separately circulated).

 

(Unless otherwise stated the requirement for certain Committees to have a Member with fewer than five or ten years’ service on the Court, at the time of their appointment, is fulfilled by the existing membership).

 

(Supporting statements in respect of the contested vacancies outlined below are set out immediately following the White Paper, at pages 81 to 94).

 

Nominations received for vacancies of varying terms:-

Where appropriate:-

* denotes a Member standing for re-appointment;

# denotes a Member with fewer than five years’ service on the Court; and

^ denotes a Member whose primary residence is in the City.

 

a) Policy and Resources Committee (five vacancies).

(Contest)

Nominations received:-

*Simon D’Olier Duckworth, O.B.E., D.L.

*Marianne Bernadette Fredericks

*Catherine McGuinness, Deputy 

James Henry George Pollard, Deputy

Virginia Rounding

*Dr Giles Robert Evelyn Shilson, Deputy 

*Jeremy Lewis Simons

Thomas Charles Christopher Sleigh

James Richard Tumbridge

Patrick Thomas Streeter

 

b) Hospitality Working Party of the Policy and Resources Committee

(one vacancy).

(Contest)

Nominations received:-

*William Barrie Fraser, O.B.E, Deputy

Ann Marjorie Francescia Pembroke

 

c) Members’ Privileges Sub (Policy and Resources) Committee (three vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

Ann Holmes

Jamie Ingham Clark, Deputy

Ann Marjorie Francescia Pembroke

 

d) Investment Committee (three vacancies).

(Contest)

 

Nominations received:-

Nicholas Michael Bensted-Smith, J.P.

Keith David Forbes Bottomley

*Tom Hoffman

Ann Holmes

*Michael Hudson

*Clare James

 

e) Social Investment Board (two vacancies).

One vacancy must be filled by a Member with fewer than five years’ service on the Court.

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

#*Henry Nicholas Almroth Colthurst

#*Wendy Marilyn Hyde

 

f) Audit and Risk Management Committee (three vacancies).

(Contest)

Nominations received:-

Randall Keith Anderson

Keith David Forbes Bottomley

*Nigel Kenneth Challis

Henry Nicholas Almroth Colthurst

Peter Estlin, Alderman

Mark Raymond Peter Henry Delano Wheatley

Gregory Percy Jones, Q.C.

 

g) Police Committee (three vacancies).

One vacancy must be filled by a Member whose primary residence is in the City.

(Contest)

Nominations received:-

*Simon D’Olier Duckworth, O.B.E., D.L.

Emma Edhem

Christopher Michael Hayward

^*Ian David Luder, Alderman

James Richard Tumbridge

 

h) Board of Governors of the City of London School (two vacancies)

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*William Harry Dove, O.B.E., J.P., Deputy

*Joyce Carruthers Nash, O.B.E., Deputy

 

i) Board of Governors of the City of London School for Girls (three vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Dennis Cotgrove

*Richard David Regan, O.B.E., Deputy

*Sir Michael Snyder

 

j) Board of Governors of the City of London Freemen’s School (three vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Stuart John Fraser, C.B.E.

*Graham David Packham

*Adam Fox McCloud Richardson

 

k) Board of Governors of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama (five vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

John Alfred Barker, O.B.E., Deputy

*John Alfred Bennett, Deputy

*Marianne Bernadette Fredericks

*Jeremy Paul Mayhew

 

l) Gresham Committee (City Side) (three vacancies).

(Contest)

Nominations received:-

John Alfred Bennett, O.B.E., Deputy

*Tom Hoffman

*Brian Nicholas Harris, Deputy

Charles Edward Lord, O.B.E., J.P.

Jeremy Paul Mayhew

 

m) Establishment Committee (three vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Jeremy Paul Mayhew

*Joyce Carruthers Nash, O.B.E., Deputy

*Barbara Patricia Newman, C.B.E.

 

n) Open Spaces, City Gardens and West Ham Park Committees (two vacancies on each Committee).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

John Alfred Barker, O.B.E., Deputy

*Jeremy Lewis Simons

 

o) Epping Forest & Commons Committee (two vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

Jeremy Lewis Simons

Graeme Martyn Smith

 

p) Hampstead Heath, Highgate Wood & Queen’s Park Committee (four

vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Michael Hudson

Anne Helen Fairweather

*Barbara Patricia Newman, C.B.E.

*Virginia Rounding

 

q) Barbican Residential Committee, in the category of non-resident (three vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Michael Hudson

*Graham David Packham

 

r) Barbican Centre Board (two vacancies).

(Contest)

Nominations received:-

Anne Helen Fairweather

Vivienne Littlechild, J.P.

Charles Edward Lord, O.B.E., J.P.

James Henry George Pollard, Deputy

John George Stewart Scott, J.P.

Jeremy Lewis Simons

*John Tomlinson, Deputy

 

s) The City Bridge Trust Committee (three vacancies).

(Contest)

Nominations received:-

*William Harry Dove, O.B.E., J.P., Deputy

Anne Helen Fairweather

*Stanley Ginsburg, J.P., Deputy

*Ian Christopher Norman Seaton

 

t) Standards Committee (three vacancies).

(Contest)

Nominations received:-

*Nigel Kenneth Challis

*Michael Hudson

Jamie Ingham Clark, Deputy

*Alastair John Naisbitt King, Deputy

 

u) Licensing Committee (four vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*John Alfred Barker, O.B.E., Deputy

*Marianne Bernadette Fredericks

Emma Edhem

 

v) Health & Wellbeing Board (one vacancy).

(No contest)

 

Nominations received:-

*Karina Dostalova

 

w) Education Board (three vacancies).

(Contest)

Nominations received:-

Randall Keith Anderson

Stuart John Fraser, C.B.E.

Peter Estlin, Alderman

Ann Holmes

Philip John Woodhouse

 

x) Health and Social Care Scrutiny Committee (six vacancies)

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

Christopher Paul Boden

The Revd. Dr Martin Dudley

Vivienne Littlechild, J.P.

Wendy Mead, O.B.E

 

y) Livery Committee (four vacancies).

(Contest)

Nominations received:-

*John Alfred Barker, O.B.E., Deputy

*William Barrie Fraser, O.B.E., Deputy

Christopher Michael Hayward

*Wendy Mead, O.B.E.

Dhruv Patel

Judith Lindsay Pleasance

 

 

 

The Court proceeded to make the annual appointment of Committees:

 

Resolved – That the several Committees as set out in the White Paper be appointed until the first meeting of the Court in April 2017, and that the terms of reference and constitutions be also approved, subject to the following amendments:

• For the Board of Governors of the City of London School, Sophie Fernandes being removed from the listed Membership;
• For the Community and Children’s Services Committee, the Ward of Bread Street being added to the list of those Wards not making appointments on this occasion;

·         In view of an outstanding item concerning responsibility for grant making, paragraph 4(f) being deleted from the Community and Children’s Services Committee’s terms of reference and paragraph 4(d) being deleted from the Education Board’s terms of reference.

 

The Court subsequently proceeded to make the following appointments, in respect of which the Town Clerk reported that the following nominations had been received:-

 

Nominations received for vacancies of varying terms:-

Where appropriate:-

* denotes a Member standing for re-appointment;

# denotes a Member with fewer than five years’ service on the Court; and

^ denotes a Member whose primary residence is in the City.

 

a) Policy and Resources Committee (five vacancies).

(Contest)

Nominations received:-

*Simon D’Olier Duckworth, O.B.E., D.L.

*Marianne Bernadette Fredericks

*Catherine McGuinness, Deputy 

James Henry George Pollard, Deputy

Virginia Rounding

*Dr Giles Robert Evelyn Shilson, Deputy 

*Jeremy Lewis Simons

Thomas Charles Christopher Sleigh

James Richard Tumbridge

Patrick Thomas Streeter

 

Read.

 

The Court proceeded, in accordance with Standing Order No.10, to ballot on the vacancies.

 

The Lord Mayor appointed the Chief Commoner and the Chairman of the Finance Committee, or their representatives, to be the scrutineers of the ballot.

 

Resolved – That the votes be counted at the conclusion of the Court and the result printed in the Summons for the next meeting.

 

b) Hospitality Working Party of the Policy and Resources Committee

(one vacancy).

(Contest)

Nominations received:-

*William Barrie Fraser, O.B.E, Deputy

Ann Marjorie Francescia Pembroke

 

Read.

 

The Court proceeded, in accordance with Standing Order No.10, to ballot on the vacancies.

The Lord Mayor appointed the Chief Commoner and the Chairman of the Finance Committee, or their representatives, to be the scrutineers of the ballot.

 

Resolved – That the votes be counted at the conclusion of the Court and the result printed in the Summons for the next meeting.

 

c) Members’ Privileges Sub (Policy and Resources) Committee (three vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

Ann Holmes

Jamie Ingham Clark, Deputy

Ann Marjorie Francescia Pembroke

 

Read.

 

Whereupon the Lord Mayor declared Ann Holmes, Deputy Jamie Ingham Clark and Ann Pembroke to be appointed to the Members’ Privileges Sub Committee.

 

d) Investment Committee (three vacancies).

(Contest)

Nominations received:-

Nicholas Michael Bensted-Smith, J.P.

Keith David Forbes Bottomley

*Tom Hoffman

Ann Holmes

*Michael Hudson

*Clare James

 

Read.

 

The Court proceeded, in accordance with Standing Order No.10, to ballot on the vacancies.

 

The Lord Mayor appointed the Chief Commoner and the Chairman of the Finance Committee, or their representatives, to be the scrutineers of the ballot.

 

Resolved – That the votes be counted at the conclusion of the Court and the result printed in the Summons for the next meeting.

 

e) Social Investment Board (two vacancies).

One vacancy must be filled by a Member with fewer than five years’ service on the Court.

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

#*Henry Nicholas Almroth Colthurst

#*Wendy Marilyn Hyde

 

Read.

 

Whereupon the Lord Mayor declared Henry Colthurst and Wendy Hyde to be appointed to the Social Investment Board.

 

f) Audit and Risk Management Committee (three vacancies).

(Contest)

Nominations received:-

Randall Keith Anderson

Keith David Forbes Bottomley

*Nigel Kenneth Challis

Henry Nicholas Almroth Colthurst

Peter Estlin, Alderman

Gregory Percy Jones, Q.C.

Mark Raymond Peter Henry Delano Wheatley

 

Read.

 

The Court agreed a request from Mark Wheatley to withdraw his nomination.

 

The Court then proceeded, in accordance with Standing Order No.10, to ballot on the vacancies.

 

The Lord Mayor appointed the Chief Commoner and the Chairman of the Finance Committee, or their representatives, to be the scrutineers of the ballot.

 

Resolved – That the votes be counted at the conclusion of the Court and the result printed in the Summons for the next meeting.

 

g) Police Committee (three vacancies).

One vacancy must be filled by a Member whose primary residence is in the City.

(Contest)

Nominations received:-

*Simon D’Olier Duckworth, O.B.E., D.L.

Emma Edhem

Christopher Michael Hayward

^*Ian David Luder, Alderman

James Richard Tumbridge

 

Read.

 

Whereupon The Lord Mayor declared Alderman Ian Luder, being the only candidate whose primary residence was located in the City, to be appointed to the Police Committee.

 

The Court proceeded, in accordance with Standing Order No.10, to ballot on the remaining vacancies.

The Lord Mayor appointed the Chief Commoner and the Chairman of the Finance Committee, or their representatives, to be the scrutineers of the ballot.

 

Resolved – That the votes be counted at the conclusion of the Court and the result printed in the Summons for the next meeting.

h) Board of Governors of the City of London School (two vacancies)

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*William Harry Dove, O.B.E., J.P., Deputy

*Joyce Carruthers Nash, O.B.E., Deputy

 

Read.

 

Whereupon the Lord Mayor declared Deputy Billy Dove and Deputy Joyce Nash to be appointed to the Board of Governors of the City of London School.

 

i) Board of Governors of the City of London School for Girls (three vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Dennis Cotgrove

*Richard David Regan, O.B.E., Deputy

*Sir Michael Snyder

 

Read.

 

Whereupon the Lord Mayor declared Dennis Cotgrove, Deputy Richard Regan and Sir Michael Snyder to be appointed to the Board of Governors of the City of London School for Girls.

 

j) Board of Governors of the City of London Freemen’s School (three vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Stuart John Fraser, C.B.E.

*Graham David Packham

*Adam Fox McCloud Richardson

 

Read.

 

Whereupon the Lord Mayor declared Stuart Fraser, Graham Packham and Adam Richardson to be appointed to the Board of Governors of the City of London Freemen’s School.

 

k) Board of Governors of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama (five vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

John Alfred Barker, O.B.E., Deputy

*John Alfred Bennett, Deputy

*Marianne Bernadette Fredericks

*Jeremy Paul Mayhew

 

Read.

 

Whereupon the Lord Mayor declared Deputy John Barker, Deputy John Bennett, Marianne Fredericks and Jeremy Mayhew to be appointed to the Board of Governors of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

 

l) Gresham Committee (City Side) (three vacancies).

(Contest)

Nominations received:-

John Alfred Bennett, O.B.E., Deputy

*Tom Hoffman

*Brian Nicholas Harris, Deputy

Charles Edward Lord, O.B.E., J.P.

Jeremy Paul Mayhew

 

Read.

 

The Court proceeded, in accordance with Standing Order No.10, to ballot on the vacancies.

 

The Lord Mayor appointed the Chief Commoner and the Chairman of the Finance Committee, or their representatives, to be the scrutineers of the ballot.

 

Resolved – That the votes be counted at the conclusion of the Court and the result printed in the Summons for the next meeting.

 

m) Establishment Committee (three vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Jeremy Paul Mayhew

*Joyce Carruthers Nash, O.B.E., Deputy

*Barbara Patricia Newman, C.B.E.

 

Read.

 

Whereupon the Lord Mayor declared Jeremy Mayhew, Deputy Joyce Nash and Barbara Newman to be appointed to the Establishment Committee.

 

n) Open Spaces & City Gardens and West Ham Park Committees (two vacancies on each Committee).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

John Alfred Barker, O.B.E., Deputy

*Jeremy Lewis Simons

 

Read.

 

Whereupon the Lord Mayor declared Deputy John Barker and Jeremy Simons to be appointed to the Open Spaces & City Gardens Committee and the West Ham Park Committee.

 

o) Epping Forest and Commons Committee (two vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

Jeremy Lewis Simons

Graeme Martyn Smith

 

Read.

 

Whereupon the Lord Mayor declared Jeremy Simons and Graeme Smith to be appointed to the Epping Forest and Commons Committee.

 

p) Hampstead Heath, Highgate Wood and Queen’s Park Committee (four

vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Michael Hudson

Anne Helen Fairweather

*Barbara Patricia Newman, C.B.E.

*Virginia Rounding

 

Read.

 

Whereupon the Lord Mayor declared Michael Hudson, Anne Fairweather, Barbara Newman and Virginia Rounding to be appointed to the Hampstead Heath, Highgate Wood and Queen’s Park Committee.

 

q) Barbican Residential Committee, in the category of non-resident (three vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Michael Hudson

*Graham David Packham

 

Read.

 

Whereupon the Lord Mayor declared Michael Hudson and Graham Packham to be appointed to the Barbican Residential Committee.

 

r) Barbican Centre Board (two vacancies).

(Contest)

Nominations received:-

Anne Helen Fairweather

Vivienne Littlechild, J.P.

Charles Edward Lord, O.B.E., J.P.

James Henry George Pollard, Deputy

John George Stewart Scott, J.P.

Jeremy Lewis Simons

*John Tomlinson, Deputy

 

Read.

The Court proceeded, in accordance with Standing Order No.10, to ballot on the vacancies.

 

The Lord Mayor appointed the Chief Commoner and the Chairman of the Finance Committee, or their representatives, to be the scrutineers of the ballot.

 

Resolved – That the votes be counted at the conclusion of the Court and the result printed in the Summons for the next meeting.

 

s) The City Bridge Trust Committee (three vacancies).

(Contest)

Nominations received:-

Anne Helen Fairweather

*William Harry Dove, O.B.E., J.P., Deputy

*Stanley Ginsburg, J.P., Deputy

*Ian Christopher Norman Seaton

 

Read.

 

The Court proceeded, in accordance with Standing Order No.10, to ballot on the vacancies.

 

The Lord Mayor appointed the Chief Commoner and the Chairman of the Finance Committee, or their representatives, to be the scrutineers of the ballot.

 

Resolved – That the votes be counted at the conclusion of the Court and the result printed in the Summons for the next meeting.

 

t) Standards Committee (three vacancies).

(Contest)

Nominations received:-

*Nigel Kenneth Challis

*Michael Hudson

Jamie Ingham Clark, Deputy

*Alastair John Naisbitt King, Deputy

 

Read.

 

The Court proceeded, in accordance with Standing Order No.10, to ballot on the vacancies.

 

The Lord Mayor appointed the Chief Commoner and the Chairman of the Finance Committee, or their representatives, to be the scrutineers of the ballot.

 

Resolved – That the votes be counted at the conclusion of the Court and the result printed in the Summons for the next meeting.

 

u) Licensing Committee (four vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*John Alfred Barker, O.B.E., Deputy

*Marianne Bernadette Fredericks

Emma Edhem

 

Read.

 

Whereupon the Lord Mayor declared Deputy John Barker, Marianne Fredericks and Emma Edhem to be appointed to the Licensing Committee.

 

v) Health & Wellbeing Board (one vacancy).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Karina Dostalova

 

Read.

 

Whereupon the Lord Mayor declared Karina Dostalova to be appointed to the Health and Wellbeing Board.

 

w) Education Board (three vacancies).

(Contest)

Nominations received:-

Randall Keith Anderson

*Stuart John Fraser, C.B.E.

*Peter Estlin, Alderman

Ann Holmes

Philip John Woodhouse

 

Read.

 

The Court proceeded, in accordance with Standing Order No.10, to ballot on the vacancies.

 

The Lord Mayor appointed the Chief Commoner and the Chairman of the Finance Committee, or their representatives, to be the scrutineers of the ballot.

 

Resolved – That the votes be counted at the conclusion of the Court and the result printed in the Summons for the next meeting.

 

x) Health and Social Care Scrutiny Committee (six vacancies)

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

Christopher Paul Boden

The Revd. Dr Martin Dudley

Vivienne Littlechild, J.P.

Wendy Mead, O.B.E

 

Read.

 

Whereupon the Lord Mayor declared Christopher Boden, the Revd. Dr, Martin Dudley, Vivienne Littlechild and Wendy Mead to be appointed to the Health and Social Care Scrutiny Committee.

 

y) Livery Committee (four vacancies).

(Contest)

Nominations received:-

*John Alfred Barker, O.B.E., Deputy

*William Barrie Fraser, O.B.E., Deputy

Christopher Michael Hayward

*Wendy Mead, O.B.E.

Dhruv Patel

Judith Lindsay Pleasance

 

Read.

 

The Court proceeded, in accordance with Standing Order No.10, to ballot on the vacancies.

 

The Lord Mayor appointed the Chief Commoner and the Chairman of the Finance Committee, or their representatives, to be the scrutineers of the ballot.

 

Resolved – That the votes be counted at the conclusion of the Court and the result printed in the Summons for the next meeting.