Agenda and minutes

Apologies for absence were received from Councillors Arthur, Berryman and Vanier.

            Councillor Morton acted as a substitute for Councillor Vanier.

The Chair will consider the admission of any late items of urgent business. (Late items will be considered under the agenda items where they appear.  It being a special meeting of the Committee, in accordance with the Council’s Constitution, Part 4, Section B, paragraph 17, no other business shall be considered at the meeting).

None.

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.

None.

Item 5 is likely to be the subject of a motion to exclude the press and public from the meeting as it contains exempt information as defined in Section 100a of the Local Government 1972 – paragraph 1; namely information relating to an individual.

RESOLVED to exclude the press and public from the meeting for the following item as it contained information classified as exempt under paragraph 1; namely that it contains information relating to an individual.

Report of the Deputy Chief Executive to appoint to the post of Director of Adult Social Services.

Please note that, it being a special meeting of the Committee, under Part 4, Section B, paragraph 17 of the Council’s Constitution, no other business shall be considered at the meeting.

NOTED the report of the Deputy Chief Executive to appoint to the post of Director of Adult Social Services.

The Committee approved the recommendation of the interview panel to appoint Beverley Tarka to the post of Director of Adult Services and approved the salary for this post.

The meeting closed at 17:30hrs.