Agenda item

Report of the Town Clerk.

A report of the Town Clerk was considered regarding the appointment of Members to serve on the Audit & Risk Management, Remuneration, Nominations, Reference, Finance & Resources and Governance & Effectiveness Sub Committees for 2016/2017. The report also detailed the Terms of Reference of each Sub Committee.

The Chairman emphasised that it was expected that Governors would be willing to serve on at least one Sub Committee.

RESOLVED – That the 2016/17 membership of the Sub Committees be approved as follows:

a) the Audit & Risk Management Committee comprise the following

Governors:

·     Christina Coker (elected Chairman of the Audit & Risk Management Sub

    Committee by the Board)

·     Marianne Fredericks

·     Lucy Frew

·     Jeremy Simons

The Town Clerk reported that she had also been informed that Neil Constable, whose term of office on the Board had now expired, had expressed an interest in continuing to serve on the Audit and Risk Management Committee. The existing Chairman of this Committee had indicated that she would welcome his continued input. The Town Clerk confirmed that the Audit and Risk Sub Committee had the power, if it considers it necessary or desirable, to co-opt members with particular expertise and they would therefore formally consider Mr Constable’s co-option at their next meeting.

b) the Remuneration Committee comprise the following Governors:

·       Deputy John Bennett (Chairman)

·       Vivienne Littlechild (Deputy Chairman)

·       Barry Ife (Principal)

·       Alderman David Graves

·       Alderman William Russell

·       Jeremy Simons

c) the Nominations Committee comprise the following Governors:

·       Deputy John Bennett (Chairman)

·       Vivienne Littlechild (Deputy Chairman)

·       Barry Ife (Principal)

·       Sir Andrew Burns (co-opted Governor)

·       Christina Coker (co-opted Governor)

·       Marianne Fredericks (Common Councilman)

·       Jo Hensel (Academic Staff)

·       Michael Hoffman (co-opted Governor)

·       Jeremy Mayhew (Common Councilman)

·       Jeremy Simons (Common Councilman)

d) the Reference Sub Committee comprise the following Governors:

·       Deputy John Bennett (Chairman)

·       Vivienne Littlechild (Deputy Chairman)

·       Deputy John Barker

·       Sir Andrew Burns

·       Michael Hoffman

·       Alderman William Russell

e) the Finance & Resources Committee comprise the following Governors:

·       Deputy John Bennett (Chairman)

·       Vivienne Littlechild (Deputy Chairman)

·       Deputy John Barker

·       Deputy John Chapman

·       Alderman David Graves

·       Michael Hoffman

·       Alderman William Russell

f) the Governance & Effectiveness Committee comprise the following Governors:

·     Sir Andrew Burns (Chairman)

·     Deputy John Bennett (Chairman of the Board)

·     Vivienne Littlechild (Deputy Chairman of the Board)

·     Christina Coker (Chairman, Audit & Risk Management Sub Committee)

·     Barry Ife (Principal)

·     Gareth Higgins

·     Lucy Frew

The Town Clerk highlighted that, with the imminent appointment of a new Principal, it was felt that continuity would be useful in the area of Governance and the membership of this Committee was therefore unchanged from 2015/16 aside from the addition of the new Deputy Chairman of the Board.