Agenda item

To approve the minutes of the last meeting of the General Purposes Committee of Aldermen held on 16 July 2024.

The Committee considered the minutes of the last meeting of the General Purposes Committee of Aldermen held on 16 July 2024.

MATTERS ARISING

Appointments (page 6) – The Town Clerk reported that the Court of Aldermen’s proposed external nominee to Emanuel School had since been appointed directly by the Trust to another existing vacancy in their own right. This therefore left the Court’s nomination still vacant. The position had been offered to all Aldermen with no expressions of interest received to date. This would now therefore be advertised to all members of the Court of Common Council within the standard vacancies letter for October alongside details of the specific skills that the School were currently seeking. A final decision on the nomination would then be made at the next meeting of the General Purposes Committee of Aldermen.

Chairman’s Congratulatory Remarks

The Chairman congratulated Alderman Emma Edhem for having been made Professor in Practice for Space Economy, Technology & Innovation at Durham University's Space Research Centre, meaning that she therefore now held a dual Professorship at Durham.

It was reported that Alderman Edhem also now sat on the Strategic Advisory Board of Space Aye along with others from the Space Sector, MoD and RAF.

Congratulations were also offered to Alderman Goyal who had been made a non-executive Director of Greengage, a FinTech Company in the City of London.

RESOLVED: - That the minutes of the last meeting of the General Purposes Committee of Aldermen held on 16 July 2024 be approved as an accurate record of the meeting.