Decision details

Representation on Outside Bodies

Decision Maker: Cabinet

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Purpose:

The Council appoints representatives to outside bodies in order to express the views of the Council to those bodies on the work they undertake, and to feed back to the Council issues emerging from those bodies that relate to Council activities. Due to the in-year changes to the Council administration, changes were sought to council representatives on executive appointed outside bodies.

Decision:

Cabinet agreed the following nominations for the listed Executive Appointed Outside Bodies for the municipal year 2021/22.

Name of Outside Body	No. of Reps	Representatives 2021/22
British Ports Association	1	Cllr Ashbee
British Resorts Association (AGM, Annual Conference and Executive Meetings)	1	Cllr Pugh
Community Safety Partnership	1	Cllr Kup
Domestic Violence Forum	1 + 1 sub	Cll Kup Cllr J. Bayford
East Kent Opportunities Ltd	1	Cllr Ashbee
East Kent Spatial Development Company	1	Cllr R. Bayford
Kent Police and Crime Panel	1	Cllr Kup
Local Government Association Coastal Special Interest Group	1	Cllr Pugh
Local Government Association District Councils’ Network	1	Cllr Ashbee
Local Government Association (General Assembly)	1	Cllr Ashbee
Local Government Association Strategic Aviation Specialist Interest Group	1	Cllr Ashbee
~~Margate Town Partnership~~	1	This was replaced by the Margate Town Team which does not have member representation and has therefore been removed from the list

Reasons for the decision:

Council agreed that there should be TDC representation on Executive Appointed Outside Bodies as listed in Annex 1 to the cabinet report. Their main objective is to continue to represent the interests of the Council.

Alternative options considered:

None considered.

Publication date: 18/06/2021

Date of decision: 17/06/2021

Decided at meeting: 17/06/2021 - Cabinet

Effective from: 26/06/2021

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