Issue - meetings

The report of the Head of Children and Family Services –

(a)               informs Members of current Authority Governor vacancies within Cheshire East-maintained schools and recommends individuals for appointment to identified posts; and

(b)               invites the Panel to consider revisions to the appointments procedure for recommendation to the Constitution Committee.

The report of the Director of Children and Family Services invited the Local Authority School Governor Appointments Panel to appoint individuals to identified vacancies within Cheshire East maintained schools for a four term of office with effect from 2 December 2010.

Additional information was tabled at the meeting in respect of new appointments and a re-appointment where the term of office was due to end before the next meeting of the Panel.

RESOLVED: 

(a) That the following appointments be made for a four year term of office with effect from 2 December 2010:

(1) Lindow Primary School

            Councillor M D Lloyd

(2) Woodcock’s Well Primary School

            Mrs K L Jones

(3) The Marlborough Primary School

            Mrs H Ashcroft

(4) Lacey Green Primary School

            Miss K Drabwell

(b) That Councillor S McGrory be appointed to the vacancy at Middlewich High School for a four year term of office with effect from 2 December 2010;

(c) That the Schools Liaison Manager be authorised, in consultation with the Chairman, to consider offering the second candidate (for the vacancy at Middlewich School) a role at the school with a view to her being offered any future governor vacancy at the school.

(Note: At this point in the proceedings, the Chairman, Councillor D Thompson, joined the meeting and assumed the Chair.)

(5) St John’s CE Primary School, Sandbach Heath

            Mrs J J Brassington

(d) That the following re-appointment be made for a four-year term of office:

            Park Royal Community School

            Mr R Watson (start date 10.01.2011)

(e) That, in view of the urgency, the Schools Liaison Manager, in consultation with the Chairman, be authorised to make arrangements for the appointment of a Governor at Audlem St James’s CE Primary School.

Notes:

(a) Councillors G Merry, B H Dykes, H Gaddum and T Jackson declared a personal interest in the appointment to Lindow CP School on the basis that the person making the nomination was Councillor Menlove’s wife;

(b) Councillors H Gaddum, G Merry, T Jackson and D Thompson, declared a personal interest in Item (d) above on the basis that they were acquainted with Mr R Watson who was a former Macclesfield Borough Councillor; and

(c) Councillors G Merry, B H Dykes, H Gaddum and T Jackson declared a personal interest in the appointment of Councillor S McGrory to MiddlewichHigh School, on the basis that he was a Council colleague.