Issue - meetings
Resolution of Grant Payments: Children's Services -Ocean Estate Bursary and Tower Hamlets and Canary Wharf Trust
Meeting: 09/09/2015 - Commissioners' Decision Making Meeting (Item 9.)
Resolution of Grant Payments: Children's Services -Ocean Estate Bursary and Tower Hamlets and Canary Wharf Trust
Meeting: 09/09/2015 - Commissioners' Decision Making Meeting (Item 7.2)
Additional documents:
- Ocean bursery project signed grant agreement, item 7.2
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- OEB - Final Signed PID, item 7.2
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Decision:
Terry Parkin Interim Service Head, Learning & Achievement introduced the report which clarified the powers for the payment of awards by Ocean Estate Bursary and TH and Canary Wharf Further Education Trust to ensure that payment did not contravene the Secretary of State’s directions of 17 December 2014.
The Chair asked attending Members to respond to the information presented and they indicated that they had no observations that they wished to make.
Commissioners noted that the governance arrangements of TH and Canary Wharf Further Education Trust provided that two trustees be Members of the Council. They wished to ensure that, should the Council be required to contribute to this award in future, the Council’s representation in this Trust should not be a majority and that any casting vote should not be in the gift of Mayoral nominated trustees. Mr Parkin confirmed that the Trust’s articles provided that the Chair of Trustees with casting vote be an independent person. He also agreed to report on the structure and governance arrangements of the TH and Canary Wharf Further Education Trust.
RESOLVED
That it be noted that the payment of the grants from the Tower Hamlets and Canary Wharf Further Education Trust, and the Ocean Estate Bursary fall outside the remit of Commissioner decisions.