Issue - meetings

To consider a progress report on the work of the Task Group (Outside Organisations), and to consider a number of appointments to outside bodies.

The Committee considered a progress report on the work of the Task Group (Outside Organisations), including the Task Group’s recommendations on appointments to a number of organisations.

RESOLVED

That

(a)               one Councillor, as identified below, be appointed to each of the following Cheshire Association of Local Councils’ groups –

(i)                 The Quality Accreditation Panel (Councillor A Moran)

(ii)               The Quality Forum (Councillor S Jones)

(iii)             The County Training Partnership (Councillor D Flude)

(on the basis set out in paragraph 11.4 of the report)

(b)               Councillor C Tomlinson be appointed to the Fence Trust (Macclesfield);

            (on the basis set out in paragraph 11.5 of the report)

(c)               Cheshire East Council join Groundwork Trust as a full Company Member;

(d)               Councillor P Whiteley be appointed to the Wilmslow Aid Trust;

(e)               Evans Arts Trust be reinstated as an outside organisation (Category 3) to which appointments should be made, with two Councillors being appointed;

(f)                 Councillors J Crockatt and P Whiteley be appointed to the Evans Arts Trust;

(g)               the Citizens Advice Bureaux (CAB) in Cheshire East be informed that this Council would be appointing two Councillors to each of its two branches;

(h)              Councillors A Thwaite and M A Martin be appointed to Cheshire East CAB and Councillors J Goddard and C Tomlinson be appointed to Cheshire CAB North;

(i)                 the Cabinet be recommended to include “Dial-a-Ride”, currently a Category 2 organisation, within its remit as a Category 1 organisation, in view of its strategic importance within the Local Transport Plan;

(j)                 the Cabinet be recommended to appoint 1 Cabinet Member and 1 Local Member to each of the two branches of “Dial-a-Ride”, subject to the constitutional requirements of the organisation;

(k)               the new request from Bollington Cross Youth Project be declined and the request from Senior Voice be addressed by the Task Group in due course when further information is available; and

(l)                 it be noted that Cheshire and Warrington Local Access Forum, a statutory organisation, has been added to the schedule of outside organisations as a Category 1 organisation, which falls within the remit of the Cabinet.