Issue - meetings

A Booklet entitled Membership of Meetings and Representatives on Outside Bodies to be circulated at the meeting refers.

Earlier in the year enquiries were made regarding each of the outside bodies and in particular the value of continuing to make appointments to them.  A meeting was held in April 2009 with the Leader of the Council and a representative of the Opposition Leader to discuss the information gathered and to consider whether the Council should continue to make appointments.  The Leader concluded that the following bodies should no longer be appointed to and these have been removed from the Membership of Meetings and Representatives on Outside Bodies Booklet:-

• Crimestoppers Board
• Local Government Association – Urban Commission
• Oxfordshire Association of Local Councils
• Oxfordshire Food Forum
• Oxfordshire Leaders Forum
• Oxfordshire Market Towns Fund Steering Group
• Oxfordshire Nature Conservation Forum
• Oxfordshire Play Association
• Oxfordshire Touring Theatre Company
• RoomatRTPI
• South East Development Agency’s South East Design Champion Club

Recommendations

(a)               that all the previous appointments to Executive Outside Bodies, with the exception of those appointments with fixed terms of office shown in shaded text, do now cease; and

(b)       that representatives be appointed on Executive Outside Bodies for the 2009/10 Municipal Year as indicated in the Membership of Meetings and Representatives on Outside Bodies Booklet circulated at the meeting.

The Executive was asked to consider the appointment of representatives to Executive Outside Bodies, the details of which were set out in the'Membership of Meetings and Representatives on Outside Bodies Booklet 2009/10' circulated at the meeting.

Earlier in the year enquiries had been made regarding each of the outside bodies, and in particular the value of continuing to make appointments to them.  A meeting had been held in April 2009 with the Leader of the Council and a representative of the Opposition Leader to discuss the information gathered and to consider whether the Council should continue to make appointments.  The Leader had concluded that the following bodies should no longer be appointed to and this view was endorsed by the Executive:

• Crimestoppers’ Board
• Local Government Association – Urban Commission
• Oxfordshire Association of Local Councils
• Oxfordshire Food Forum
• Oxfordshire Leaders Forum
• Oxfordshire Market Towns Fund Steering Group
• Oxfordshire Nature Conservation Forum
• Oxfordshire Play Association
• Oxfordshire Touring Theatre Company
• RoomatRTPI
• South East Development Agency’s South East Design Champion Club

RESOLVED

(a)               that all the previous appointments to Executive Outside Bodies, with the exception of those appointments with fixed terms of office shown in shaded text, do now cease; and

(b)       that representatives be appointed on Executive Outside Bodies for the 2009/10 Municipal Year as indicated in the ‘Membership of Meetings and Representatives on Outside Bodies’ booklet circulated at the meeting.