Date: December 24, 2009
Kent Union's Governance Structure
- Remove the review of sabbatical officer positions from the Governance Review and instigate a full review of the Union’s Democratic structures, to be completed during term two; the Board should require a more detailed brief at its next meeting (January 2010
- Increase the number of external trustees from 2 to 4
- Increase the number of student trustees from 2 to 4, but select (rather than elect) the additional 2 trustees through an open (to all Kent Union full members) recruitment and selection process
- Use the selection and election processes of the trustees to address the diversity concerns of the Board as detailed in the original Governance Review proposal; and specifically to address any need for postgraduate, international and/or mature student representation on the Board- Create a new position of Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees, with the responsibilities as detailed in Appendices 2 and 3
- Create two new sub-committees of the Board – Finance and Risk Committee and Appointments Committee – with the responsibilities detailed in Appendices 7 and 8
- Scrap the existing scrutiny committees of Remuneration Committee and Internal Audit Committee
- Change the Managing Director’s job title to Chief Executive and approve the revised job description presented to the last Board meeting and included at Appendix 4
- Change the PA to the Managing Director and President’s job title to PA to the Chief Executive and President and Clerk to the Board of Trustees and approve the revised job description included at Appendix 5
