Issue - meetings
Local Authority School Governor Appointment
Meeting: 10/06/2008 - Executive Member for Children and Young People's Services and Advisory Panel (Item 6)
6 Local Authority (LA) School Governors 
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This report provides information about the current position with regard to vacancies for Local Authority seats on governing bodies, lists current nominations for those vacancies and requests the appointment, or re-appointment, of the listed nominees.
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Decision:
Members received a report which provided information about the current position with regard to vacancies for Local Authority seats on governing bodies, listed current nominations for those vacancies and requested the appointment, or re-appointment, of the listed nominees.
The report presented the following options for consideration:
· To appoint/re-appoint and fill the vacancies;
· Not to appoint/re-appoint and fill the vacances.
Advice of the Advisory Panel
That the Executive Member be advised:
(i) That LA Governors be appointed, or re-appointed, to fill vacant seats as proposed in Annex 1 of the report.
(ii) That the Panels thanks be conveyed to all serving and reappointed Governors for their services to these bodies which could not function without them.
Decision of the Executive Member
RESOLVED:That the advice of the Advisory Panel be accepted and endorsed.
REASON:To ensure that LA places on school governing bodies continue to be effectively filled.
Minutes:
Members received a report which provided information about the current position with regard to vacancies for Local Authority seats on governing bodies, listed current nominations for those vacancies and requested the appointment, or re-appointment, of the listed nominees.
The report presented the following options for consideration:
· To appoint/re-appoint and fill the vacancies;
· Not to appoint/re-appoint and fill the vacances.
In answer to questions Officers confirmed that the Governance Service had placed seven applicants in community governor vacancies at schools and that the majority of these lived in the locality of the school.
Advice of the Advisory Panel
That the Executive Member be advised:
(i) That LA Governors be appointed, or re-appointed, to fill vacant seats as proposed in Annex 1 of the report.
(ii) That the Panels thanks be conveyed to all serving and reappointed Governors for their services to these bodies which could not function without them.
Decision of the Executive Member
RESOLVED:That the advice of the Advisory Panel be accepted and endorsed.
REASON:To ensure that LA places on school governing bodies continue to be effectively filled.