Agenda item

To appoint the Committees until the first meeting of the Court in April 2021 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 69 to 86).

 

(Where vacancies are contested, ballot papers have been circulated electronically for completion by 12noon on Wednesday 15 July. The results of these indicative ballots will be made known to the Court and recommendations for appointment put for approval at the meeting accordingly).

 

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;

† denotes a Member whose primary residence is in the City;

^ denotes a Member who currently serves on the Committee in either an ex-officio capacity or as a representative of another Committee with appointment rights.

 

To consider the following appointments:

 

(A)          Policy and Resources Committee (five vacancies).

(Contest)

Nominations received:-

Rehana Banu Ameer

Deputy David John Bradshaw

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

*Marianne Bernadette Fredericks

Tracey Graham

Paul Nicholas Martinelli

*Deputy Catherine McGuinness

Andrien Gereith Dominic Meyers

Ruby Sayed

*Deputy Dr Giles Robert Evelyn Shilson

*Deputy Tom Sleigh

 

(B)         Hospitality Working Party of the Policy and Resources Committee (one vacancy).

(Contest)

Nominations received:-

Tijs Broeke

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

Jeremy Lewis Simons

Deputy Philip Woodhouse

 

(C)         Members’ Privileges Sub (Policy and Resources) Committee (two vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Ann Holmes

*Deputy Jamie Ingham Clark

 

(D)         Capital Buildings Committee (one vacancy).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Alderman Alison Gowman

 

(E)         Investment Committee (three vacancies).

(Contest)

Nominations received:-

*Nicholas Michael Bensted-Smith, J.P.

*John Douglas Chapman

^James de Sausmarez

Anne Fairweather

^Michael Hudson

*Deputy Clare James

John Petrie

 

(F)          Social Investment Board (one vacancy).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Alderman Bronek Masojada

 

(G)         Audit and Risk Management Committee (six vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Randall Keith Anderson

*Christopher Paul Boden

Alderman Prem Goyal, O.B.E., J.P.

*Paul Nicholas Martinelli

*John Petrie

Ruby Sayed

 

(H)         Police Authority Board (four vacancies).

(Contest)

Nominations received:-

Caroline Kordai Addy

^†Munsur Ali 

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

^†John Ernest Edwards

^†Helen Lesley Fentimen

Alderman Timothy Russell Hailes, J.P.

*^†Alderman Ian David Luder, J.P.

^†Jeremy Paul Mayhew

^†Graham David Packham

^†William Pimlott

^†John Petrie

James Richard Tumbridge

Dawn Lindsay Wright

 

 

(I)           Education Board (three vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Alderman Sir Peter Estlin

*Ann Holmes

*Alderman Nicholas Stephen Leland Lyons

 

(J)          Board of Governors of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama (three vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

^#Munsur Ali

*Graham David Packham

*Alderman William Anthony Bowater Russell, the Rt Hon The Lord Mayor

 

(K)         Board of Governors of the City of London School (two vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Dominic Gerard Christian

*Caroline Wilma Haines

 

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

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Rehana Banu Ameer

*Shravan Jashvantrai Joshi

*Deputy Richard David Regan, O.B.E

 

(M)        Board of Governors of the City of London Freemen’s School

(four vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Graham David Packham

 

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

(Contest)

Nominations received:-

Deputy Keith David Forbes Bottomley

Deputy Kevin Malcom Everett

Sophie Anne Fernandes

*Deputy Tom Hoffman, M.B.E.

*Deputy Edward Lord, O.B.E., J.P.

Jeremy Paul Mayhew

 

(O)         Establishment Committee (three vacancies).

(Contest)

Nominations received:-

Henry Nicholas Almroth Colthurst

Karina Dostalova

^Deputy Jamie Ingham Clark

*Jeremy Paul Mayhew

James Richard Tumbridge

 

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

(Contest)

Nominations received:-

Karina Dostalova

Andrew Stratton McMurtrie, J.P.

*Oliver Sells, Q.C.

*Jeremy Lewis Simons

Deputy Philip Woodhouse

 

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

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Graeme Martyn Doshi-Smith

*Jeremy Lewis Simons

 

(R)         Hampstead Heath, Highgate Wood & Queen’s Park Committee(four vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Michael Hudson

*Wendy Mead, O.B.E.

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

 

(S)         Barbican Residential Committee,in the category of non-resident (either six or two vacancies, subject to the Court’s decision when considering the White Paper in respect of the proposed amendment to the Committee’s composition).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Michael Hudson

Andrew Stratton McMurtrie, J.P.

 

(T)          Barbican Centre Board (three vacancies).

(Contest)

Nominations received:-

Munsur Ali

Randall Keith Anderson

Deputy David John Bradshaw

Tijs Broeke

Deputy Kevin Malcolm Everett

Anne Fairweather

*Judith Lindsay Pleasance

Deputy James Henry George Pollard

*Deputy Dr Giles Robert Evelyn Shilson

James Richard Tumbridge

 

(U)         The City Bridge Trust Committee (two vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

Henry Nicholas Almroth Colthurst

*Dhruv Patel, O.B.E.

 

(V)         Standards Committee (four vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Mary Durcan

Helen Lesley Fentimen

 

(W)        Standards Appeals Committee (ten vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Keith David Forbes Bottomley, Deputy

*John Douglas Chapman

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

*Marianne Bernadette Fredericks

*Tracey Graham

*John Petrie

*John George Stewart Scott, J.P.

 

(X)         Licensing Committee (three vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Karina Dostalova

*Marianne Bernadette Fredericks

*Shravan Jashvantrai Joshi

 

(Y)         Health & Social Care Scrutiny Committee (six vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Christopher Paul Boden

*Michael Hudson

*Vivienne Littlechild, M.B.E., J.P.

*Wendy Mead, O.B.E.

 

(Z)          Health & Wellbeing Board (one vacancy).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Marianne Bernadette Fredericks

 

(AA)      Markets Committee (three vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

Deputy David John Bradshaw

Wendy Mead, O.B.E.

Deputy Philip Woodhouse

 

(BB)      Culture, Heritage & Libraries Committee (two vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

Mary Durcan

 

(CC)     Community & Children’s Services Committee (fourteen vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

Munsur Ali

Mary Durcan

Alderman David Graves

Deputy Catherine McGuinness

Jason Paul Pritchard

The Court proceeded to make the annual appointment of Committees. An addendum to the report, highlighting those amendments required to the White Paper caused by changes since its publication with the agenda, had also been circulated. This addendum also set out the results of the indicative ballots undertaken in advance of the Court meeting, in respect of contested vacancies.

 

Resolved – That the several Committees as set out in the White Paper be appointed until the first meeting of the Court in April 2021, and that the terms of reference and constitutions be also approved.

 

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 who currently serves on the Committee in either an ex-officio capacity or as a representative of another Committee with appointment rights.

 

(A)               Policy and Resources Committee (five vacancies).

(Contest)

Nominations received:-

Rehana Banu Ameer

Deputy David John Bradshaw

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

*Marianne Bernadette Fredericks

Tracey Graham

Paul Nicholas Martinelli

*Deputy Catherine McGuinness

Andrien Gereith Dominic Meyers

Ruby Sayed

*Deputy Dr Giles Robert Evelyn Shilson

*Deputy Tom Sleigh

 

Read.

 

Resolved – That, in accordance with the outcomes of the indicative ballot process, the appointment to the Policy and Resources Committee of Deputy Catherine McGuinness, Andrien Meyers, Marianne Fredericks, Deputy Tom Sleigh, and Rehana Ameer, for four-year terms, be confirmed.

 

(B)               Hospitality Working Party of the Policy and Resources Committee (one vacancy).

(Contest)

Nominations received:-

Tijs Broeke

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

Jeremy Lewis Simons

Deputy Philip Woodhouse

 

Read.

Resolved – That, in accordance with the outcomes of the indicative ballot process, the appointment to the Hospitality Working Party of the Policy and Resources Committee of Tijs Broeke, for a four-year term, be confirmed.

 

(C)               Members’ Privileges Sub (Policy and Resources) Committee (two vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Ann Holmes

*Deputy Jamie Ingham Clark

 

Read.

 

Whereupon the Lord Mayor declared Ann Holmes and Deputy Jamie Ingham Clark to be appointed to the Members’ Privileges Sub (Policy and Resources) Committee.

 

(D)               Capital Buildings Committee (one vacancy).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Alderman Alison Gowman

 

Read.

 

Whereupon the Lord Mayor declared Alderman Alison Gowman to be appointed to the Capital Buildings Committee.

 

(E)                Investment Committee (three vacancies).

(Contest)

Nominations received:-

*Nicholas Michael Bensted-Smith, J.P.

*John Douglas Chapman

^James de Sausmarez

Anne Fairweather

^Michael Hudson

*Deputy Clare James

John Petrie

 

Read.

 

Resolved – That, in accordance with the outcomes of the indicative ballot process,the appointment to the Investment Committee of Nicholas Bensted-Smith, Deputy Clare James, and James de Sausmarez, for four-year terms, be confirmed.

 

(F)                Social Investment Board (one vacancy).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Alderman Bronek Masojada

 

Read.

 

Whereupon the Lord Mayor declared Alderman Bronek Masojada to be appointed to the Social Investment Board.

 

(G)               Audit and Risk Management Committee (six vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Randall Keith Anderson

*Christopher Paul Boden

Alderman Prem Goyal, O.B.E., J.P.

*Paul Nicholas Martinelli

*John Petrie

Ruby Sayed

 

Read.

 

Whereupon the Lord Mayor declared Randall Anderson, Christopher Boden, Alderman Prem Goyal, Paul Martinelli, John Petrie and Ruby Sayed to be appointed to the Audit and Risk Management Committee.

 

(H)               Police Authority Board (four vacancies).

(Contest)

Nominations received:-

Caroline Kordai Addy

^†Munsur Ali 

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

^†John Ernest Edwards

^†Helen Lesley Fentimen

Alderman Timothy Russell Hailes, J.P.

*^†Alderman Ian David Luder, J.P.

^†Jeremy Paul Mayhew

^†Graham David Packham

^†William Pimlott

^†John Petrie

James Richard Tumbridge

Dawn Lindsay Wright

 

Read.

 

Resolved – That, in accordance with the outcomes of the indicative ballot process, the appointment to the Police Authority Board of Munsur Ali, Caroline Addy, and Alderman Tim Hailes for four-year terms, and Dawn Wright for a three-year term be confirmed.

 

(I)                  Education Board (three vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Alderman Sir Peter Estlin

*Ann Holmes

*Alderman Nicholas Stephen Leland Lyons

 

Read.

 

Whereupon the Lord Mayor declared Alderman Sir Peter Estlin, Ann Holmes and Alderman Nicholas Lyons to be appointed to the Education Board.

 

(J)                 Board of Governors of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama (three vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

^#Munsur Ali

*Graham David Packham

*Alderman William Anthony Bowater Russell, the Rt Hon The Lord Mayor

 

Read.

 

Whereupon the Lord Mayor declared Munsur Ali, Graham Packham and Alderman William Russell to be appointed to the Board of Governors of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

 

(K)               Board of Governors of the City of London School (two vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Dominic Gerard Christian

*Caroline Wilma Haines

 

Read.

 

Whereupon the Lord Mayor declared Dominic Christian and Caroline Haines to be appointed to the Board of Governors of the City of London School.

 

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

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Rehana Banu Ameer

*Shravan Jashvantrai Joshi

*Deputy Richard David Regan, O.B.E

 

Read.

 

Whereupon the Lord Mayor declared Rehana Ameer, Shravan Joshi and Deputy Richard Regan to be appointed to the Board of Governors of the City of London School for Girls.

 

(M)              Board of Governors of the City of London Freemen’s School

(four vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Graham David Packham

 

Read.

 

Whereupon the Lord Mayor declared Graham Packham to be appointed to the Board of Governors of the City of London Freemen’s School.

 

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

(Contest)

Nominations received:-

Deputy Keith David Forbes Bottomley

Deputy Kevin Malcom Everett

Sophie Anne Fernandes

*Deputy Tom Hoffman, M.B.E.

*Deputy Edward Lord, O.B.E., J.P.

Jeremy Paul Mayhew

 

Read.

 

Resolved – That, in accordance with the outcomes of the indicative ballot process, the appointment to the Gresham Committee of Deputy Tom Hoffman, Deputy Keith Bottomley, and Deputy Edward Lord, for four-year terms, be confirmed.

 

(O)               Establishment Committee (three vacancies).

(Contest)

Nominations received:-

Henry Nicholas Almroth Colthurst

Karina Dostalova

^Deputy Jamie Ingham Clark

*Jeremy Paul Mayhew

James Richard Tumbridge

 

Read.

 

Resolved – That, in accordance with the outcomes of the indicative ballot process, the appointment to the Establishment Committee of Henry Colthurst, Karina Dostalova, and Deputy Jamie Ingham Clark, for four-year terms, be confirmed.

 

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

(Contest)

Nominations received:-

Karina Dostalova

Andrew Stratton McMurtrie, J.P.

*Oliver Sells, Q.C.

*Jeremy Lewis Simons

Deputy Philip Woodhouse

 

Read.

 

Resolved – That, in accordance with the outcomes of the indicative ballot process, the appointment to the Open Spaces, City Gardens and West Ham Park Committees of Karina Dostalova and Oliver Sells, for four-year terms, be confirmed.

 

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

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Graeme Martyn Doshi-Smith

*Jeremy Lewis Simons

 

Read.

 

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

 

(R)               Hampstead Heath, Highgate Wood & Queen’s Park Committee (four vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Michael Hudson

*Wendy Mead, O.B.E.

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

 

Read.

 

Whereupon the Lord Mayor declared Michael Hudson, Wendy Mead, and Deputy Edward Lord to be appointed to the Hampstead Health, Highgate Wood & Queen’s Park Committee.

 

(S)                Barbican Residential Committee, in the category of non-resident (two vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Michael Hudson

Andrew Stratton McMurtrie, J.P.

 

Read.

 

Whereupon the Lord Mayor declared Michael Hudson and Andrew Stratton McMurtrie, to be appointed to the Barbican Residential Committee.

 

(T)                Barbican Centre Board (three vacancies).

(Contest)

Nominations received:-

Munsur Ali

Randall Keith Anderson

Deputy David John Bradshaw

Tijs Broeke

Deputy Kevin Malcolm Everett

Anne Fairweather

*Judith Lindsay Pleasance

Deputy James Henry George Pollard

*Deputy Dr Giles Robert Evelyn Shilson

James Richard Tumbridge

 

Read.

 

Resolved – That, in accordance with the outcomes of the indicative ballot process, the appointment to the Barbican Centre Board of Munsur Ali and Randall Anderson for three-year terms, and Deputy Dr Giles Shilson for a one-year term, be confirmed.

 

(U)               The City Bridge Trust Committee (two vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

Henry Nicholas Almroth Colthurst

*Dhruv Patel, O.B.E.

 

Read.

 

Whereupon the Lord Mayor declared Henry Colthurst and Dhruv Patel to be appointed to the City Bridge Trust Committee.

 

(V)               Standards Committee (four vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Mary Durcan

Helen Lesley Fentimen

 

Read.

 

Whereupon the Lord Mayor declared Mary Durcan and Helen Fentimen to be appointed to the Standards Committee.

 

(W)             Standards Appeals Committee (ten vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Keith David Forbes Bottomley, Deputy

*John Douglas Chapman

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

*Marianne Bernadette Fredericks

*Michael Hudson

*Tracey Graham

*John Petrie

*John George Stewart Scott, J.P.

 

Read.

 

Whereupon the Lord Mayor declared Deputy Keith Bottomley, John Chapman, Simon Duckworth, Marianne Fredericks, Michael Hudson, Tracey Graham, John Petrie and John Scott to be appointed to the Standards Appeal Committee.

 

(X)               Licensing Committee (three vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Karina Dostalova

*Marianne Bernadette Fredericks

*Shravan Jashvantrai Joshi

 

Read.

 

Whereupon the Lord Mayor declared Karina Dostalova, Marianne Fredericks and Shravan Joshi to be appointed to the Licensing Committee.

 

(Y)               Health & Social Care Scrutiny Committee (six vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Christopher Paul Boden

*Michael Hudson

*Vivienne Littlechild, M.B.E., J.P.

*Wendy Mead, O.B.E.

 

Read.

 

Whereupon the Lord Mayor declared Christopher Boden, Michael Hudson, Vivienne Littlechild, and Wendy Mead to be appointed to the Health & Social Care Scrutiny Committee.

 

(Z)                Health & Wellbeing Board (one vacancy).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

*Marianne Bernadette Fredericks

 

Whereupon the Lord Mayor declared Marianne Fredericks to be appointed to the Health & Wellbeing Board.

 

(AA)          Markets Committee (three vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

Deputy David John Bradshaw

Wendy Mead, O.B.E.

Deputy Philip Woodhouse

 

Read.

 

Whereupon the Lord Mayor declared Deputy David Bradshaw, Wendy Mead, and Deputy Philip Woodhouse to be appointed to the Markets Committee.

 

(BB)           Culture, Heritage & Libraries Committee (two vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

Mary Durcan

 

Read.

 

Whereupon the Lord Mayor declared Mary Durcan to be appointed to the Culture, Heritage & Libraries Committee.

 

(CC)           Community & Children’s Services Committee (fourteen vacancies).

(No contest)

Nominations received:-

Munsur Ali

Mary Durcan

Helen Lesley Fentimen

Alderman David Graves

Deputy Catherine McGuinness

Jason Paul Pritchard

 

Read.

 

Whereupon the Lord Mayor declared Munsur Ali, Mary Durcan, Helen Fentimen, Alderman David Graves, Deputy Catherine McGuinness and Jason Pritchard to be appointed to the Community & Children’s Services Committee.