Agenda and minutes

Apologies for absence were received from John Bird, Martin Day, Alderman Jeffrey Evans, Deputy Robin Eve and Alderman Sir Michael Savory.

There were no declarations.

To elect a Chairman for the year ensuing.

The Committee proceeded to elect a Chairman for the year ensuing.

The Town Clerk read a list of those Governors eligible to stand and Henry Pollard, being the only Governor to signify his willingness to serve, was duly elected as Chairman for the ensuing year.

Henry Pollard took the Chair and thanked Members for their support in appointing him as their Chairman.

Vote of Thanks – Deputy Denis Cotgrove

The outgoing chairman thanked Members for their support over his tenure and said that it had given him great pleasure to preside over the business of the Committee for the previous three years.  

To elect a Deputy Chairman for the year ensuing.

The Committee proceeded to elect a Deputy Chairman for the year ensuing.

Deputy Dennis Cotgrove, as outgoing Chairman wished to take up his right to serve for one year as Deputy Chairman and in accordance with City of London Corporation customs, he was duly elected as Deputy Chairman for the ensuing year.

To agree the public minutes and summary of the meeting held on 14 November 2011.

The public minutes and summary of the meeting held on 14 November 2011 were approved and agreed as correct record.

Public Minutes of the last meeting of the Reference Sub-Committee held on 14 November 2011.

The public minutes of the last meeting of the Reference Sub-Committee held on 14 November 2011 were received.

RECEIVED.

To appoint a Reference Sub Committee (Interview Panel) to select a child for the Corporation’s 2012 Presentation Place at Christ’s Hospital.

[NB: Interviews will take place from 2.00pm today]

The Town Clerk reported that he Ms Fredericks had expressed an interest in serving and asked if any other Members wished to serve on the Reference Sub Committee. There were no further expressions of interest.

The Reference Sub Committee (Interview Panel) to select a child for the City of London Corporation’s 2012 Presentation Place at Christ’s Hospital was therefore appointed as follows:

Chairman – Henry Polland

Deputy Chairman – Deputy Dennis Cotgrove

Marianne Fredericks

Any questions on matters relating to the work of the Committee.

There were no questions.

Any items of other business which the Chairman may decide are urgent.

Report from the School

The Chairman requested that in future years a report from the school be provided to update Members with some commentary on Donations.

Meeting dates

The Chairman queried whether the Town Clerk could better diarise the meeting in future years to ensure that Members were aware of opportunities to serve.

Christ's Hospital Yearly Diary

Members requested a copy of the Christ’s Hospital yearly diary so that they could be made more aware of key events throughout the school year.  

Contact Details

Members further requested information about their presentee, for example, what their start date was and details of their House Master.

The Chairman reinforced that a closer association with the school would be welcome.

To consider the resolution excluding the Public in respect of those items containing exempt information:-

That under Section 100(A) of the Local Government Act 1972, the public be excluded from the meeting for the following items on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Part I of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act.

RESOLVED - That under Section 100(A) of the Local Government Act 1972, the public be excluded from the meeting for the following items on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Part I of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act.

To agree the non-public minutes of the meeting held on 14 November 2011.

The non-public minutes of the meeting held on 4 November 2011 were approved.

Non-public minutes of the last meeting of the Reference Sub-Committee on 14 November 2011.

The non-public minutes of the last meeting of the Reference Sub-Committee on 14 November 2011 were received.

RECEIVED.

To discuss applications for the Corporation’s September 2013 Presentation to Christ’s Hospital.

The Committee received applications for the City Corporation’s 2013 Presentation to Christ’s Hospital.

RECEIVED.

An opportunity for Donation Governors to provide a verbal update on the progress of children presented in the last five years.

Verbal updates on the progress of some of the children presented to Christ’s Hospital by the City of London in the last five years were given by respective Donation Governors.

RECEIVED.

Any questions on matters relating to the non-public work of the committee.

There were no questions.

To consider any other business.

There were two urgent items.