CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHORITY

DRAFT MINUTES OF THE BOARD MEETING

held via LifeS­ize Video Con­fer­en­cing on Fri­day 28^th August 2020 at 14.30

PRESENT

• Xan­der McDade (Con­vener)
• Wil­lie McKenna
• Peter Argyle
• Ian McLar­en
• Car­o­lyn Caddick
• Dr Fiona McLean
• Pippa Had­ley
• Wil­li­am Munro
• Janet Hunter
• Anne Rae Macdonald
• John Kirk
• Dr Gaen­er Rodger
• John Lath­am
• Derek Ross
• Douglas McAdam
• Judith Webb
• Elean­or Mackintosh

In Attend­ance:

• Grant Moir, Chief Executive
• Dav­id Camer­on, Dir­ect­or of Cor­por­ate Services
• Alix Hark­ness, Clerk to the Board

Apo­lo­gies:

• Geva Black­ett
• Deirdre Fal­con­er

Wel­come and Introduction

1. Xan­der McDade, the Con­vener, wel­comed every­one to the meeting.
2. Apo­lo­gies were noted from Geva Black­ett and Deirdre Falconer.

Board Stand­ing Orders: Elec­tions (Paper I)

1. The Con­vener thanked the CEO and the Dir­ect­or of Cor­por­ate Ser­vices for pre­par­ing a paper on this at such short notice.
2. Dav­id Camer­on, Dir­ect­or of Cor­por­ate Ser­vices intro­duced Paper I which sets out the pro­posed revi­sions to cur­rent Stand­ing Orders and Busi­ness Con­tinu­ity arrange­ments in place amend­ing Stand­ing Orders, in order to put in place arrange­ments to sup­port elec­tions of Con­vener / Deputy Convener.
3. The Con­vener pro­posed redu­cing the nom­in­a­tion time from 15 work­ing days to 10 work­ing days.
4. The Board con­sidered the detail in the Paper and dis­cus­sions took place around the following:
   • a) Was there a max­im­um amount of words lim­it for a writ­ten state­ment? Dir­ect­or of Cor­por­ate Ser­vices con­firmed that there was not, the length of a state­ment was at the dis­cre­tion of the candidate.
   • b) Cla­ri­fic­a­tion sought that the pro­pos­al to shorten the 15 day nom­in­a­tion peri­od to 10 days would have a knock-on effect to all the oth­er sub­sequent asso­ci­ated dead­lines? The Con­vener confirmed.
   • c) A mem­ber com­men­ted that the paper was very clear and that he was con­tent to sup­port the amendment.
5. The Board:
   • a) Agreed that the cur­rent busi­ness con­tinu­ity arrange­ments in place for Board oper­a­tions and gov­ernance of the Author­ity should be amended at this time to allow for the elec­tion of Con­vener / Deputy Convener;
   • b) Approved the elec­tions pro­cess set out in para­graphs 7 to 13;
   • c) Reviewed the illus­trat­ive timetable at para­graph 15 and agreed the nom­in­a­tion peri­od being shortened from 15 work­ing days to 10 work­ing days;
   • d) Noted the pro­pos­als, should they be agreed, rep­res­ent amend­ments to busi­ness con­tinu­ity arrange­ments only and in due course Board oper­a­tions will revert to agreed Stand­ing Orders.
6. Action Point Arising:
   • i. Revised time­tabling to be cir­cu­lated to the Board as soon as prac­tic­ally possible.

AOCB

1. The Con­vener advised that a Board mem­ber had sub­mit­ted a ques­tion in advance of the meet­ing ask­ing when the Board would dis­cuss Wer­rity. CEO advised that this would be dis­cussed as part of the inform­al Board dis­cus­sion on the after­noon of 11 Septem­ber 2020.

Date of Next Meeting

1. Next form­al Board meet­ing to be held on 11 Septem­ber 2020 via Lifes­ize video Conferencing.
2. The meet­ing con­cluded at 14.42 hours.