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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 advised the meeting of the procedure.

20.

APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE AND SUBSTITUTIONS

Minutes:

Apologies were received from Cllr Mike Drew, Cheryl Kirby, Shirley Marsh, Cllr Chris Pearce and Wendy Weston.

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:

The Investment Manager reported that South Gloucestershire had made a new nomination to replace Cllr Mike Drew on the Committee. No details of the new nominee had yet been received.

 

She also announced that this would the last meeting of the Committee to be attended by Tony Earnshaw, the Independent Investment Adviser, whose term of appointment had terminated. Members thanked him for his support to the Committee and wished him well for the future.

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.

REVIEW OF INVESTMENT STRATEGY pdf icon PDF 21 KB

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Minutes:

RESOLVED that the Committee being satisfied that the public interest would be better served by not disclosing relevant information, that the public should l be excluded for the duration of the discussion of this item and reporting of it be prevented in accordance with the provisions of section 100(A)(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, because of the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Scheduled 12A of the Act as amended.

 

Following discussion it was RESOLVED to approve the officers’ recommendations as amended.