Agenda and draft minutes

To receive any apologies for absence from Members.

Apologies for absence was received from Councillor Lynne Hale. Councillor Ola Kolade was present as substitute.

Apologies for lateness was received from Councillor Stuart King.

Minutes of the previous meeting will be presented at the next scheduled meeting of the Committee.

The Part A minutes to the meeting held on Monday 21 August 2023 would be presented at the next scheduled meeting of the Committee.

Members are invited to declare any disclosable pecuniary interests (DPIs), pecuniary or non-pecuniary interests they may have in relation to any item(s) of business on today’s agenda.

Members confirmed that their entries on the Council’s register of interests were up to date and that they had no further disclosures to make. 

There were no items of urgent business

To progress any selected candidate/s for the post of Director of Culture & Community Safety to final panel Interview/s to be held on 8 September 2023.

Under Item 4, the Chair of the Committee will move that the remainder of the meeting be held in private – for the stated reasons.

The Appointment and Disciplinary Committee considered the Appointment to the post of Director of Culture and Community Safety, which followed the last meeting held on 21 August 2023 where Members had agreed to interview a number of candidates for the role of Director of Culture and Community Safety and agreed to hold the final panel of interviews on 8 September 2023.

Full details to the Director of Culture and Community Safety role were available online and within the agenda pack for the Appointment and Disciplinary Committee meeting held on 21 August 2023.

The interviews were held in private.

The following motion is to be moved and seconded where it is proposed to exclude the press and public from the remainder of a meeting or a particular item:

“That, under Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act, 1972, the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the following items of business on the grounds that it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information falling within those paragraphs indicated in Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972, as amended.”

The following motion was proposed by Mayor Perry, seconded by Councillor Young and agreed by the Committee to exclude the press and public for the remainder of the meeting.

“That, under Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the following items of business on the grounds that it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information falling within paragraphs 1, 2 and 5 as indicated in Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972, as amended”.

Minutes of the previous meeting will be presented at the next scheduled meeting of the Committee.

The Part B minutes to the meeting held on Monday 21 August 2023 would be presented at the next scheduled meeting of the Committee.

Please note that a full confidential minute has also been produced for this item, although the resolutions agreed by the Committee are set out in the public minute above