Agenda and minutes

There were apologies from Councillors John Bull and Francine Haeberling and their substitutes were Councillors Robin Moss and Anthony Clarke respectively

The Chair drew attention to the emergency evacuation procedure

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 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 before the meeting to expedite dealing with the item during the meeting.

There were none

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To be approved as a correct record and signed by the Chair.

The Minutes of the previous meeting held on Thursday 14^th June 2012 were approved as a correct record and signed by the Chair

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The Committee is asked to agree;

that, 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, the public be excluded from the meeting for the following item of business because of the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraph 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act as amended.

RESOLVED that, 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, the public be excluded from the meeting for the following item of business because of the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraph 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act as amended.

The Committee considered the applications received, together with the Long list report and recommendations presented by Rashpal Kaur Singh from Harvey Nash who had been appointed as recruitment consultants for this appointment. Arrangements for subsequent stages of the selection procedure were confirmed.

RESOLVED that:

(1)  Applicants (14) numbered 20, 21, 23, 28, 30, 33, 43, 58, 65, 71, 73, 80, 95 and 104 within the schedule of applicants be invited for long list interview; and

(2)  The Committee meet on 6^th November 2012 to consider reports from the long list interviews and to agree those applicants that should go forward to a 2 day assessment centre on Thursday 15^th and Friday 16^th November 2012.

(Note: Since the meeting, the last 2 dates have been found to be unsuitable and therefore other dates will be considered)