Report to:	Governance Committee
Date:	29 June 2021
By:	Assistant Chief Executive
Title of report:	Conservators of Ashdown Forest – Appointment of Council representatives
Purpose of report:	To appoint representatives to the Board of Conservators of Ashdown Forest
______________________________________________________________________ RECOMMENDATIONS:   The Governance Committee is recommended to consider whether to confirm the appointment of 3 Council representatives on the Board of Conservators of Ashdown Forest as set out in this report for a 4 year period

1.         Supporting Information

1.1       The County Council is invited to appoint Members (and in some cases non-County Councillors are eligible) to serve on a wide range of outside bodies whose role has a relationship to a function of the County Council. The appointments are a vital part of the County Council’s working in partnership with voluntary bodies, statutory agencies and the public and private sectors.

1.2       The County Council is entitled to appoint 8 representatives as Conservators of Ashdown Forest.  In May 2021, the County Council appointed 5 representatives as Conservators of Ashdown Forest (all of whom were either current County Councillors or had previously been appointed as Conservators by the Council) as follows:

Conservators of Ashdown Forest

Councillor Howell Mr A Reid Mrs R St Pierre Mr R Stogdon Mrs S Tidy

1.3       In addition the Council provisionally appointed the following 3 representatives:

Conservators of Ashdown Forest

Mrs E Rimington-Drury (tbc by Governance Committee) Mr J Squire (tbc by Governance Committee) Ms F Thomas (tbc by Governance Committee)

1.4       As these three proposed appointees were neither existing Conservators or County Councillors their appointment was on a provisional basis subject to the Governance Committee’s consideration of their  CV/supporting statement, together with details of any conflicts of interests or confirmation that there are none,  and that the Committee would decide whether to confirm the appointments. The CVs and supporting information contain exempt information and are set out in a later item on the agenda.

2.         Recommendations

2.1       The Committee is asked to consider the further information provided in item 13 and decide whether to confirm the appointments of the 3 persons referred to in paragraph 1.3 as Conservators of Ashdown Forest.

PHILIP BAKER

Assistant Chief Executive

Contact Officer: Andy Cottell             Tel:  01273 481955

                                                            E-mail: andy.cottell@eastsussex.gov.uk

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