Issue - meetings

Bromley Common and Keston ward

Report CSD17150

The Committee considered vacancies that had arisen for Council representatives on outside bodies.

Two of the Council’s three representatives on the Keston Village Hall Trust, Mr Peter Luckens and Mr Peter Zieminsky, had recently resigned. The Trust had nominated Mrs Pam Broughton and Mrs Maureen Marshall to replace them for the remainder of the four year term of office ending on 20^th December 2020. This was supported by two of the ward councillors. However, it was proposed that the appointments be made until 31^st May 2018, with new four year terms of office starting in 2018 to tie in with the Council’s four year electoral cycle. The Trust had no objection to this.

It was also proposed that the vacancy for a representative on the Diocese of Rochester Board of Education be dealt with in the same way with an appointment until May 2018.

The Committee considered that terms of office should be aligned with the Council year and electoral cycles wherever possible, and if there were no conflicts with the Trusts’ constitutions, and also proposed that a review be carried out of appointments to small local charities to consider whether Council representatives were necessary.  

RESOLVED that

(1) Mrs Pam Broughton and Mrs Maureen Marshall be appointed as the Council’s representatives on the Keston Village Hall Trust until the end of May 2018.

(2) Councillor Stephen wells be appointed as the Council’s representative on the Diocese of Rochester Board of Education for the three year term of office from 10^th December 2017 to 10^th December 2020.

(3) It is noted that Councillor Colin Smith will be the Council’s representative on the London Councils Leader’s Committee and Grants Committee.