Agenda and draft minutes

There were no apologies for absence.

The Chair drew attention to the emergency evacuation procedure, as set out on the agenda.

At this point in the meeting declarations of interest are received from Members in any of the agenda items under consideration at the meeting.

(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 4.4 Appendix 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.

There were no declarations of interest made.

There were no items of urgent business.

It was unanimously agreed that the open and exempt minutes of the meeting of 24^th April 2024 be approved as a correct record and were signed by the Chair.

There were no items from the public.

The Committee is invited to pass the following resolution;

That, having been satisfied that the public interest test 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 paragraphs 1 and 2 of Part 1 of Scheduled 12A for the Act as amended.

It was moved, seconded and unanimously

RESOLVED that, having been satisfied that the public interest test 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 paragraphs 1 and 2 of Part 1 of Scheduled 12A for the Act as amended.

The Committee considered a report seeking their agreement to the proposed flexible retirement request as part of the overall Head of Service restructure and to put in place a temporary Financial Systems & Governance resource to support a 2 year programme to overhaul and upgrade financial systems including Agresso (Finance system) and iTrent (HR & Payroll system).

On a motion from Councillor Kevin Guy, seconded by Councillor Robin Moss, it was unanimously

RESOLVED that the proposal presented is approved and the Chief Executive be given delegated authority to take all steps necessary to implement it.