Agenda and minutes

To provide an opportunity for Members and Officers to declare any disclosable pecuniary and non-pecuniary interests in any item on the agenda.

The Chairman provided an opportunity to members of the Sub-Committee, and to officers, to declare any pecuniary, non-pecuniary or other interests, which arose from the proposed business of the meeting.

No such interests were declared.

To approve the minutes of the meeting held on 24 July 2012

RESOLVED:

That the minutes of the meeting held on 24 July 2012 be deferred for consideration until the next meeting.

In accordance with Procedure Rules Nos.11 and 35 a period of 10 minutes is allocated for members of the public to address the meeting on any matter relevant to the work of the meeting. Individual members of the public may speak for up to 5 minutes but the Chairman or person presiding will decide how the period of time allocated for public speaking will be apportioned where there are a number of speakers. Members of the public are not required to give notice to use this facility. However, as a matter of courtesy, a period of 24 hours’ notice is encouraged.

Members of the public wishing to ask a question at the meeting should provide at least three clear working days’ notice in writing and should include the question with that notice. This will enable an informed answer to be given.

No members of the public were present at the meeting.

The reports relating to the remaining item on the agenda has been withheld from public circulation and deposit pursuant to Section 100(B)(2) of the Local Government Act 1972 on the grounds that the matters may be determined with the press and public excluded.

The Committee may decide that the press and public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the following item pursuant to Section 100(A)4 of the Local Government Act 1972 on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Paragraphs 1 and 2 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972 and public interest would not be served in publishing the information.

Pursuant to Section 100B (2) of the Local Government Act 1972, the report relating to the remaining item on the agenda had been withheld from public circulation and deposit on the grounds that the matters may be determined with the public and press excluded.

It was moved and seconded, pursuant to Section 100A (4) of the Local Government Act 1972 that the public and press be excluded from the remaining items of the Sub-Committee’s business on the grounds that they involved the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Paragraphs 1 and 2 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972, as amended, and that the public interest would not be served in publishing the information, and it was

RESOLVED

That the press and public be excluded from the remainder of the meeting for the reasons given.

The report of the Designated Independent Person, in respect of a review of the conduct of staff involved in the Council’s proposals to build a waste transfer station at the Lyme Green Depot, had been delivered to the Council.  The report had been distributed by the Chief Executive to the three senior officers concerned, to members of the Sub-Committee, to the Leader of the Council, and to the Chairman of the Staffing Committee only.

All members of the Sub-Committee confirmed that they had received, read and understood the content of the report, and that the initial priority was to agree the procedure for its consideration.

The Chairman briefly summarised the key elements of the report and explained the way in which the work of the sub-committee would be progressed in the light of its findings and recommendations.

A further meeting of the Sub-Committee had been convened for this purpose, and would take place at 10.00am on Tuesday, 18^th December 2012.

RESOLVED

The report of the Designated Independent Person be formally received by the Sub-Committee and that this be considered at the meeting of the Sub-Committee scheduled for Tuesday, 18^th December 2012, which would begin at 10.00am.