Agenda and minutes

(if any) – receive.

Apologies for absence were received from Marshajane Thompson.

Members of the Board are invited to disclose any pecuniary interest in any of the items on the agenda at this point of the meeting.

Members of the Board may still disclose and pecuniary interest in an item at any time prior to the consideration of the matter.

There were no disclosures of interest.

Justin Barrett has indicated that he would be willing to assume the Chair.

Justin Barrett was appointed Chair of the Board until the first meeting following Annual Council.

The  terms of reference provide that the Chair shall serve for one municipal year with the Union representatives and Employer Representatives taking the Chair in turn.

The Board had agreed that the role of Chair be rotated between the Scheme Member Representatives and Employer representatives each year.

To agree the revised Terms of Reference attached hereto and authorise the Chair to sign them off.

(Report attached.)

The Board had agreed the Terms of Reference as revised and had authorised the Chair to sign them off. The agreed Terms of Reference were attached as Appendix ‘A’.

See attached slide.

Having considered the list of potential items for inclusion on the Work Plan the Board had agreed that at the next meeting they would like to consider the TUPE transfer/Academy conversions, the Best Value directive and Fair Deal Eligibility and Admission Arrangements/bond guarantee arrangements. To enable the Board to obtain greatest benefit they had asked officers to arrange suitable training prior to the meeting.

Before agreeing a Work Plan for the year the Board had asked officers to provide a copy of the Pensions Committee work plan to ensure that their work complemented that of the Pensions Committee.

The Board had considered the desirability of looking at Government consultations such as the Public Sector Exit Payment Cap and awaited officers’ advice.

It is proposed that meetings of the Board should follow within approximately 2 weeks meetings of the Pensions Committee.

The Pensions Committee is scheduled to meet on:

·         22 September 2015;

·         15 December 2015; and

·         15 March 2016.

Those members present at the inquorate meeting on the 12 August have agreed that the Board should meet on Wednesdays, commencing at 4.00pm at the Town Hall. The dates are as follows:

·         7 October 2015;

·         6 January 2016; and

·         6 April, 2016.

Please reserve these dates in your diary.

The Board had agreed that normally all meetings would commence at 4.00pm at the Town Hall, Romford.

The dates for the next three meetings were:

·         7 October, 2015;

·         6 January, 2016; and

·         6 April, 2016.