Entity TfN Executive Board. Members Chief Executives or nominated representatives from Constituent Authorities. A representative from the Department for Transport. Representatives from Highways England, Network Rail and HS2. TfN Chief Executive. In attendance TfN’s Finance Director and any other person at the invitation of the Executive Board. Establishment The TfN Executive Board will be established to provide a consultative forum for TfN Officers in the development or delivery of programmes and activity required to deliver the objectives of TfN as set out in its Business Plan and varied by the TfN Members’ Board from time to time. The Executive Board should reflect the priorities of both private and public-sector organisations within the North. It is the responsibility of the representatives of the Constituent Authorities to ensure that the views of the private sector in their locality are represented. Composition The Board will elect a Chair from one of its Constituent Authority members. If the Chair is not present an alternative Chair will be elected by and from the Constituent Authority members. Meeting frequency Monthly or at such intervals as the Executive Board may decide. Attendance may be in person or via teleconference. Role and Function The primary objective of the Executive Board is to contribute to Transport for the North’s effective exercise of its powers and the delivery of its objectives as set out in the TfN business plan. This might include , but not be limited to, the strategic direction, policies and priorities for TfN; emerging regional trasnport issues and the extent to which current and proposed transport infrastructure meets the requirements of the Northern economy, industry and the wider community. The Executive Board is to:
