Report to:	Governance Committee
Date:	16 July 2024
By:	Assistant Chief Executive
Title of report:	Appointments to Outside Bodies
Purpose of report:	To consider appointments to outside bodies until May 2025.
RECOMMENDATION The Governance Committee is recommended to appoint Councillors to serve on the outside bodies as set out in Appendix 1 of this report.

1. Supporting Information

1.1       At its meeting of 29 June 2021 the Governance Committee made appointments to a 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 sector bodies, statutory agencies and the public and private sectors.

1.2       Councillor Rupert Simmons was appointed to the Gatwick Airport Consultative Committee, the Dungeness A & B Power Stations – Local Community Liaison Council and South East Employers for the period until May 2025.

1.3       Following the sad news of Councillor Simmon’s death, it was agreed at the Governance Committee meeting of 18 July 2023, that Councillor Paul Redstone should be appointed to the Dungeness A & B Power Station – Local Community Liaison Council and that Councillor Bob Bowdler be appointed as the substantive member of the Gatwick Airport Consultative Committee. It was also agreed that the remaining vacant appointments would be determined at a later date.

1.4       Attached at Appendix 1 is a schedule of the organisations to which appointments are to be made and the number of places to be filled for each body.

1.5 Unless otherwise stated appointments are for the period ending in May 2025. 

2.         Recommendation

2.1       The Committee is asked to appoint Councillors to serve on the outside bodies as set out in Appendix 1 of this report.

PHILIP BAKER

Assistant Chief Executive

Contact Officer: Georgina Seligmann

Tel:  01273 482355

E-mail: georgina.seligmann@eastsussex.gov.uk

Background Documents

None

            Appendix 1

Appointments to Outside Bodies

Organisation	No. of reps	Current Appointments
Environment
Gatwick Airport Consultative Committee	1 + Sub	Cllr Bowdler Vacancy (Substitute)
Other organisations
South East Employers	2	Cllr Lunn Vacancy