Issue - meetings

At its meeting held on 1 December 2010, the Panel had approved a revised procedure for making appointments to educational establishments. The Panel’s recommendations had been considered by the Constitution Committee at its meeting held on 24 March 2011.

The resolution of the Committee was read to the meeting and noted by Members –

Resolution of the Constitution Committee – 24 March 2011

“That the revised procedure for the appointment of Authority Governors to school governing bodies in Cheshire East as set out in Annexe A to the report be approved subject to the following amendments:

1.      where there are two or more competing nominations for a vacancy at a primary school and one nominee is a local ward member for the ward in which the school is situated, the local ward member shall be appointed;

2.      where there are two or more competing nominations for a vacancy at a secondary school and one nominee is a local ward member for a ward served by the secondary school, the local ward member shall be appointed;

3.      where there are two or more nominations of local ward members in either case above, those members shall decide among themselves which one of them shall be appointed; in the event that agreement cannot be reached, all such nominations shall be considered equally alongside any others against the agreed criteria; and

4.      nominations by local ward members where they themselves are not the nominee shall be considered equally with other nominations against the agreed criteria.”

A copy of the revised procedure would be submitted for information to the next meeting.