Issue - meetings

To agree the process for the recruitment of the Committee’s Independent and Parish Council representatives.

Report of the Governance Group attached.

Consideration was given to the process for the recruitment of the Committee’s Independent and Parish Council representatives.  The report detailed the different recruitment options available and set out suggested job descriptions and person specifications for each; in considering these it was requested that the wording of each be looked at to ensure that the terminology between the two was consistent. It was anticipated that the interviews for the Independent Members would be carried out during August.

RESOLVED

1. That approval be given to recruit Independent Members from the existing pool of Borough, and County Council Independent members.

2. That the job description and person specification for Independent Members be approved.

3. That Councillors John Hammond, Mike Parsons and Lesley Smetham (Deputy Councillor Rhoda Bailey) be appointed to a Panel of Members of the Committee to interview and recommend the appointment of the Independent Members to the Committee and to the Shadow Council. 

4. That the Cheshire Association of Local Councils be requested to conduct a nomination process for the recruitment of Parish Council representatives with one nomination coming from each of the three existing Districts.

5. That approval be given to the job description and person specification for the Parish Council representatives subject to the wording being brought into line with that for the Independent Members.