Agenda item

The Town Clerk to be heard.

The Town Clerk was heard with respect to the Board’s appointments to its various Sub-Committees and the follow appointments were agreed:

Nominations Sub-Committee (1 vacancy)

In addition to the Chair and Deputy Chair, who have ex-officio rights to this Sub-Committee, and Tijs Broeke (appointed in July 2020) there were no further expressions of interest. Any Members who were interested in this Sub-Committee could email the clerk ahead of the next meeting.

Education Charity Sub-Committee (2 vacancies)

In addition to the Chair and Deputy Chairman, who have ex-officio rights to this Sub-Committee, Randall Anderson and Benjamin Murphy were appointed to the Education Charities Sub-Committee.

NB: after the meeting concluded it was noted that both Mr Anderson and Mr Murphy had already been appointed to this Sub-Committee by the Community & Children’s Services Committee. Consequently, the vacancies were carried over.

City of London Academies Trust

The Clerk explained that the Chair and Deputy Chair of the Board may serve as Company Member and as a Trustee of the City of London Academies Trust, (or a representative/nominee of each where the original candidate is not able to serve). The newly elected Chair and Deputy Chair were invited to put to the Board their intentions in this respect.

The Chair, Caroline Haines, wished to exercise her right to appointment to the COLAT Board of Trustees and as Company Member.

The Deputy Chair, Deputy Philip Woodhouse, noted a conflict of interest given his involvement in the Mossbourne Federation. Given his inability to serve on COLAT either as a Trustee or Company Member, he proposed Alderman Robert Howard as his nominee as Trustee, leaving the Company Member vacancy vacant. The appointment of a Company Member would be brought back to the Board for endorsement at its next meeting.

RESOLVED, that the Deputy Chairman’s nomination of Alderman Robert Howard to the COLAT Board of Trustees, be endorsed.