Agenda and draft minutes

Councillor Erdal Dogan nominated Councillor Felicia Opoku to be Chair for the duration of the proceedings; this was seconded by Councillor Vincent Carroll and agreed unanimously.

RESOLVED

To elect Councillor Felicia Opoku as the Chair for the duration of the proceedings.

To receive any apologies for absence.

Apologies for absence were received from Councillor Ogiehor.

A member with a disclosable pecuniary interest or a prejudicial interest in a matter who attends a meeting of the authority at which the matter is considered:

(i) must disclose the interest at the start of the meeting or when the interest becomes apparent, and

(ii) may not participate in any discussion or vote on the matter and must withdraw from the meeting room.

A member who discloses at a meeting a disclosable pecuniary interest which is not registered in the Register of Members’ Interests or the subject of a pending notification must notify the Monitoring Officer of the interest within 28 days of the disclosure.

Disclosable pecuniary interests, personal interests and prejudicial interests are defined at Paragraphs 5-7 and Appendix A of the Members’ Code of Conduct

There were no declarations of interest.

The Chair will consider the admission of any late items of Urgent Business. (Late items will be considered under the agenda item where they appear. New items will be dealt with under item 6 below).

There was no urgent business.

To note the arrangements for the handling of complaints.

RESOLVED

The arrangements for the handling of complaints were noted.

To consider any items of urgent business as identified at item 4.

There were no new items of urgent business.

Items 8-9 are likely to be subject to a motion to exclude the press and public from the meeting as they contain exempt information as defined in Section 100a of the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended by Section 12A of the Local Government Act 1985); paras 1 and 2; information relating to an individual or likely to reveal the identity of an individual.

It was noted that items 8-9 contained exempt information as defined in Section 100a of the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended by Section 12A of the Local Government Act 1985); paras 1 & 2; namely information relating to any individual and information likely to reveal the identity of an individual.

RESOLVED

That the press and public be excluded from the meeting for consideration of items 8-9 as they contained exempt information as defined in Section 100a of the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended by Section 12A of the Local Government Act 1985); paras 1 & 2; namely information relating to any individual and information likely to reveal the identity of an individual.

To consider a complaint received in relation to the Members’ Code of Conduct.

The Committee considered standards complaint SC005/2021.

There were no new items of exempt urgent business.