Agenda and minutes

This Extraordinary Council Meeting has been convened in accordance with the provisions of Rule 3.1, further to a request from the Monitoring Officer, following the proposal to consider the conferment of an Honorary Freedom upon Sir Paul Nurse.

RESOLVED:  To note that this Extraordinary Council meeting had been convened in accordance with Rule 3.1.

To receive declarations of personal or prejudicial interests arising from business to be transacted at this meeting, from all members of the Council.

RESOLVED:  To note that there were no declarations.

To consider an officer report arising which advises the details of the

proposed recipient and the relevant requirements of Section 249, Local

Government Act 1972.

FOR DECISION

Council received a report to consider under the provisions of Section 249 of the Local Government Act 1972 the proposed conferment of Honorary Freedom of the Borough and the associated costs in recording the granting of the Freedom in an Illuminated Scroll to be conferred on Sir Paul Nurse.

Sir Paul Nurse was educated in the Borough.  He became a geneticist whose research focused on the molecular machinery that enabled cell division and controls cell shape.  His research led to the identification of cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) as the key regulator molecule controlling the process by which cells make copies of themselves, a discovery that was important for understanding growth, development and cancer.  Sir Paul Nurse was a former Professor of Microbiology at the University of Oxford and CEO of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund and Cancer Research UK.  He was also a Former President of Rockefeller University New York. Sir Paul Nurse currently served as the President of the Royal Society and awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (jointly) in 2001.

It was proposed that the honour be conferred in 2011 to mark the 100^th anniversary of Harrow High School, where Sir Paul Nurse was educated. Members unanimously welcomed the proposal.

The proposal was moved jointly by Councillor Bill Stephenson, Leader of the Council and Councillor Susan Hall, Leader of the Opposition.  The proposal was unanimously agreed.

RESOLVED:  That

(1)               in accordance with the provisions of Section 249 of the Local Government Act 1972, the Council of the London Borough of Harrow as now agreed unanimously (with no votes cast against), the Council do confer the Honorary Freedom of the Borough on  Sir Paul Nurse and approves associated costs in recording the granting of the Freedom in an Illuminated Scroll.

(2)               the Presentation of the Scroll and Casket to be made, by The Mayor on behalf of the Council, at Harrow High School Centenary Dinner on Saturday 15 October 2011.

(3)               the following formal resolution be adopted:-

“that in accordance with the provisions of Section 249 of the Local Government Act 1972, the Council of the London Borough of Harrow

DO CONFER THE

‘Freedom of Entry to the Borough’

upon

Sir Paul Maxime Nurse

In Recognition of his outstanding continuous service to science

and

that this honour of Freedom the Borough be now so conferred on Sir Paul Nurse appropriately in the current year of 2011 in further joint commemoration and celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of Harrow High School (formerly Harrow County School for Boys and Gayton High School).