Agenda, decisions and minutes

Apologies were received from Cllr Eddie Reeves and Cllr Alison Rourke with Cllr Ian Corkin and Cllr Andy Graham attending as substitutes.

None received.

To approve the minutes of the meeting held on 25 January 2021 (RC3) and to receive information arising from them.

The minutes of the meeting held on 25 January 2021 were approved and signed as a correct record.

None received.

Report of the Director of Law & Governance Monitoring Officer (RC5).

The Council’s Constitution allocates to the Committee the responsibility for appointments to outside bodies other than to those identified by the Cabinet as ‘strategic’. 

The report identifies the bodies to which appointments now need to be made and reviews the process for making them.  It also sets out any proposed new additions. 

The Committee is RECOMMENDED to:

(a)       give consideration to and make the appointments to the non-strategic outside bodies listed in Annex 1 (to Follow);

(b)       note the review of the category ‘C’ outside bodies shown at Annex 2 to the report  and give consideration to the mechanism for appointments to Category ‘C’ bodies.

RESOLVED to

a)    Give consideration to and make the appointments to the non-strategic outside bodies listed in Annex 1;

b)   Note the review of the category ‘C’ outside bodies shown at Annex 2 to the report and give consideration to the mechanism for appointments to Category ‘C’ bodies.

The following additions/amendments were noted for Annex 1:

County Nature Conservation Forum – Councillor Juliette Ash

Oxfordshire Federation of Young Farmers’ Clubs – Councillor Nigel Champken-Woods

Oxfordshire Museums Council – Councillor Andy Graham

Chilterns AONB Conservation Board – Councillor Eddie Reeves

The following additions/amendments were noted for Annex 2:

Aston Rowant Educational Trust – Councillor Nigel Champken-Woods

Cumnor Old School Charity – to be determined by the Chair of the Committee

Harwell – Chilton Campus Local Stakeholder Group – Bill Cotton, Corporate Director for Environment and Place

Wallingford Bridge Estate Charity – Councillor Felix Bloomfield

The information contained in the report is exempt in that it falls within the following prescribed category:

2          Information which is likely to reveal the identity of an individual

It is considered that in this case the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information, in that such disclosure would infringe the rights of the individual to privacy contrary to the general law and the duty of the authority to respect human rights and to comply with that law and contrary to the authority’s duties as a fair employer.

Report by Director of Human Resources (RC5E)

This report gives an overview of the Change programmes that have resulted in redundancy in Quarter 2 (July to October 2018). It provides details of:

·       the number of redundancies

·       the number of redeployments

·       the total costs including pension costs

·       pension costs alone    

The report also includes an overview of the change programmes that may result in Quarter 3 redundancies.

The Remuneration Committee is RECOMMENDED to note the figures.

RESOLVED: That the public be excluded for the duration of items RC6 since it was likely that if they were present during those items there would be disclosure of exempt information as defined in Part 1 of Schedule 12 A to the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended) and specified in relation to the respective items in the Agenda and since it was considered that, in all the circumstances of each case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighed the public interest in disclosing the information.

PROCEEDINGS FOLLOWING THE WITHDRAWAL OF THE PRESS AND PUBLIC

The information contained in the report is exempt in that it falls within the following prescribed category:

2          Information which is likely to reveal the identity of an individual

It is considered that in this case the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information, in that such disclosure would infringe the rights of the individual to privacy contrary to the general law and the duty of the authority to respect human rights and to comply with that law and contrary to the authority’s duties as a fair employer.