Issue - meetings

At this point in the meeting declarations of interest are received from Members in any of the agenda items under consideration at the meeting. Members are asked to complete the green interest forms circulated to groups in their pre-meetings (which will be announced at the Council Meeting) to indicate:

(a) The agenda item number in which they have an interest to declare.

(b) The nature of their interest.

(c) Whether their interest is a disclosable pecuniary interest or an other interest,  (as defined in Part 2, A and B of the Code of Conduct and Rules for Registration of Interests)

Any Member who needs to clarify any matters relating to the declaration of interests is recommended to seek advice from the Council’s Monitoring Officeror a member of his staff before the meeting to expedite dealing with the item during the meeting.

The Chairman announced an interest on behalf of the Chief Executive and the Monitoring Officer in Appendix 2 (Scale of Fees) of agenda item 14 (Proposals for a Directly Elected Mayor) and explained that they would leave the meeting if this item needed to be discussed.

The Monitoring Officer declared a dispensation, in accordance with the Localism Act 2011, for all Councillors who would have a disclosable pecuniary interest by living near a proposed Park & Ride site.