Agenda and minutes

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Items
No. Item

19.

EMERGENCY EVACUATION PROCEDURE

The Chair will ask the Committee Administrator to draw attention to the emergency evacuation procedure as set out under Note 8.

Minutes:

The Democratic Services Officer read out the procedure.

20.

APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE AND SUBSTITUTIONS

Minutes:

There were none.

21.

DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST

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 Officer or a member of his staff before the meeting to expedite dealing with the item during the meeting.

Minutes:

There were none.

22.

TO ANNOUNCE ANY URGENT BUSINESS AGREED BY THE CHAIR

Minutes:

There was none.

23.

ITEMS FROM THE PUBLIC - TO RECEIVE DEPUTATIONS, STATEMENTS, PETITIONS OR QUESTIONS

Minutes:

There were none.

24.

ITEMS FROM COUNCILLORS AND CO-OPTED AND ADDED MEMBERS

To deal with any petitions or questions from Councillors and where appropriate co-opted and added members.

 

Minutes:

There were none.

25.

LGPS POOLING OF INVESTMENTS - UPDATE pdf icon PDF 76 KB

Before discussing Exempt Appendices 1 and 2 the Committee is invited to pass the following resolution:

 

The Committee, having been satisfied that the public interest would be better served by not disclosing relevant information, and in accordance with the provisions of Section 100(A)(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, resolves that the public shall be excluded from the meeting for the discussion of Exempt Appendices 1 and 2 of this item, because of the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act as amended.

 

Additional documents:

Minutes:

 

RESOLVED that the Committee, having been satisfied that the public interest would be better served by not disclosing relevant information, and in accordance with the provisions of Section 100(A)(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, resolves that the public shall be excluded from the meeting for the discussion of Exempt Appendices 1 and 2 of this item, because of the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act as amended.

 

The Head of Business, Finance and Pensions introduced this item. He distributed a set of PowerPoint slides about the pooling proposal and commented on them. Members put questions and made comments, to which he responded.

 

After discussion it was RESOLVED that the Committee:

 

1.  Approves the joint submission from the Brunel Pension Partnership (BPP), including the Avon Pension Fund, to DCLG

 

2.  Authorises Officers to continue to work with the other funds in BPP on the Business case reporting back to this Committee in due course.

 

3.  Delegates approval of any minor changes (consistency and typos) to the Chair of the Committee and Head of Pension Fund.

 

4.  Notes establishing a Local Authority Company with the other BPP funds will be subject to Council approval at a future date.

 

5.  Notes the full business case is to be finalised by October 2016.