I am comfortable with the idea of the next appointment being till after the AGM - to help synchronise the term. Let me start on list, a discussion we had face to face with some council members in Lisbon and the idea of both a chair and one or two vice chairs also. I see this model working well for a few reasons: - clear responsibility for deputising for chair when the chair cannot make a meeting/call for any reason; - a vice chair could also chair any committees of the whole if convened in future; - at a time of multiple overlapping issues, vice chairs could be given an issue responsibility to help oversee not the policy (that would be the TF chair) but any administrative and coordination questions (especially useful when the TF chair is not a council member). There is nothing in the by-laws to prevent us from such appointments. What do other Council members think ? Philip