Agenda item

Joint report of the Principal and the Town Clerk.

The Board had before them the joint report of the Principal and Town Clerk on terms of reference and dates of meetings in 2018/19.

The following matters were raised:-

·         The Deputy Chairman suggested that under ‘Constitution’ (page 29 of the agenda pack) the Chairman of the Guildhall School Trust also be included as permitted to attend Board meetings in a non-voting, advisory capacity.

·         A Co-opted Governor put forward the view that the Chairman of the Remuneration Committee should not be either the Chairman or Deputy Chairman of the Board.

·         It was noted that the July meeting of the Finance and Resources Committee should be rescheduled for September.

·         Noted that the Governance and Effectiveness Committee’s terms of reference (page 39) required amendment, following the introduction of the Office for Students, and that the Committee would continue to consider matters relating to changes in the School’s governance requirements as a result of any future changes.  

RESOLVED

(a)  That the Board approve -

(i)    the recommended amendments to the terms of reference of the Board of Governors, with the inclusion of the Chairman of the Guildhall School Trust as permitted to attend Board meetings in a non-voting advisory capacity, for consideration and approval by the Court of Common Council;

(ii)   the recommended amendments to the Audit & Risk Management Committee terms of reference;

(iii) the recommended amendments to the Remuneration Committee terms of reference, with the inclusion of ‘The Chairman of the Remuneration Committee should not be either the Chairman or Deputy Chairman of the Board’; and

(iii)  the terms of reference of all the other committees and the Academic Assurance Working Group; 

(b)  That the Board note the need for future review of committee structure, terms of references, etc; and

(c)   That the Board note the dates of the next Board and committee meetings in 2018, subject to the meeting of the Finance and Resources Committee meeting in July being rescheduled to September.