5 December 2002 Minutes

Board of Scrutiny, meeting on Thursday 10 October at Selwyn College

Boardof Scrutiny

Minutes of the Meeting Held at Noon on

Thursday 5 December 2002 at Selwyn College

Present: Stephen Cowley, David Howarth, RobinLachmann, Christopher Forsyth, Susan Lintott, Oliver Rackham, John Spencer,Helen Thompson.

Apologies: Jack MacDonald, Timothy Milner,Elisabeth Leedham-Green, Jennifer Rigby.

1)Minutes. TheMinutes of the meeting of 21November 2002.

Mattersarising.

i)Buildings, the land fund and the deficit. There was adiscussion of the Reports on the CR-UK and Homerton buildings. There wasconcern that some of the funding for the projects was coming from the Land Fundwhich was in deficit. It was agreed that a short speech would be drafted forthe Discussion of 10 December 2002.

Action: The Chairman to draft a speech for theDiscussion of 10/12/2002.

ii)Harrassment issues. The draft letter to the Press Office wasapproved. It was agreed to send the letter.

Action: The Secretary to send the letter.

2)Governance proposals and vote. Concern wasexpressed at the timing of the vote, and the view taken towards amendments. Itwas agreed to write to the Vice-Chancellor and Council on these matters.

Action: The Chairman to write a letter to the VC.

3)The new Vice-Chancellor and the press coverage. There was a discussion of the leak to the pressconcerning the appointment of the new Vice-Chancellor. It was agreed that theleak was regrettable, but it was not clear that it was our job to take thematter further.

4)Conduct of Discussions: new Statutes and Ordinances. There was a discussion as to whether the newpublished version of the Statutes and Ordinances were in line with the currentvote on the conduct of Discussions. It was agreed to see what the outcome ofthe vote was before proceeding further.

5)Any other business. The attention of the Board was drawn to somehigher education discussion papers on the DfES web site.

6)Date of next meeting. The next meeting will be on Thursday 16 January2003.