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Agenda and minutes

Venue: Mandela Room

Contact: Susan Lightwing 

Items
No. Item

22/57

Welcome and Evacuation Procedure

Minutes:

The Chair welcomed all present to the meeting and read out the Building Evacuation Procedure.

22/58

Declarations of Interest

To receive any declarations of interest.

Minutes:

Name of Member

Type of Interest

Item/Nature of Interest

Councillor C Hobson

Non pecuniary

Agenda Item 7

Councillor B Hubbard

Non pecuniary

Agenda Item 7

Councillor G Wilson

Non pecuniary

Agenda Item 7

 

Councillors C Hobson, B Hubbard and G Wilson left the room at this point in proceedings and took no further part in the meeting.

22/59

Appointment of Chair

Minutes:

Due to the Chair withdrawing from the meeting, the Monitoring Officer asked for nominations for a Chair for the meeting.

 

Councillor D Rooney was nominated for the position of Chair.

 

On a vote being taken, it was ORDERED that Councillor D Rooney was appointed as Chair for the meeting.

22/60

Minutes - Corporate Affairs and Audit Committee - 16 February 2023 pdf icon PDF 148 KB

Minutes:

The minutes of the Corporate Affairs meeting held on 16 February 2023 were submitted and approved as a correct record.

 

22/61

Any other urgent items which in the opinion of the Chair, may be considered

Minutes:

None.

22/62

Exclusion of Press and Public

To consider passing a Resolution Pursuant to Section 100A (4) Part 1 of the Local Government Act 1972 excluding the press and public from the meeting during consideration of the following items on the grounds that if present there would be disclosure to them of exempt information falling within paragraphs 1, 2 and 4 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act and the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.

Minutes:

ORDERED that the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the following items on the grounds that, if present, there would be disclosure to them of exempt information as defined in Paragraphs 1, 2 and 4 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972 and that the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighed the public interest in disclosing the information.

 

22/63

To Consider Approval of Settlement Agreement

Additional documents:

Minutes:

A report of the Director of Legal and Governance Services (Monitoring Officer) was presented to seek the Committee’s approval for a settlement agreement.

 

ORDERED as follows:

1.  The settlement agreement as set out in Appendix 1 to the submitted report was approved.

2.   Responsibility for finalising the settlement agreement was delegated to the Council’s Monitoring Officer.