Meeting documents

Employment Committee
Monday, 25th February, 2019 10.00 am

Business Items
1Public participation (Standing Order 17)
 To receive and hear any person who wishes to address the Committee. The Chairman will select the order of the matters to be heard. Each person will be limited to a period of five minutes. Public Participation Time must not exceed thirty minutes.
2Apologies for absence and notification of substitutes
3Declaration of disclosable pecuniary interest
 A Member must declare any disclosable pecuniary interest where it relates to any matter being considered at the meeting. A declaration of a disclosable pecuniary interest should indicate the interest and the agenda item to which it relates. A Member is not permitted to participate in this agenda item by law and should immediately leave the meeting before the start of any debate.

If the Member leaves the Chamber in respect of a declaration, he or she should ensure that the Chairman is aware of this before he or she leaves to enable their exit from the meeting to be recorded in the minutes in accordance with Standing Order 37.
4Minutes 14 February 2019
 To approve as a correxct record
 Minutes - 4 emp minute 140219-dr29456 
5Matters referred by Council, the Executive, other committees etc.
 If any
6Exclusion of of the press and public
 the Committee will be invited to pass the following resolution:

'(1) That the press, public, and officers not required by the Members, the Chief Executive or the Director, to remain during the exempt session, be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the following item of business on the ground that its consideration will involve the disclosure of exempt information as defined in Section 100I of the Local Government Act 1972.'

And, if appropriate, the following resolution should be passed –

'(2) That members of the Council who are not members of this Committee be invited to remain.'
7Interviews Director of Development & Environment post (Exempt item)
 The Committee will be invited to agree a timetable for formal interviews
8Urgent business permitted by the Local Government Act 1972
 Any item of business which the Chairman is of the opinion should be considered at the meeting as a matter of urgency by reason of special circumstances (to be specified in the Minutes). For a matter to be considered as an urgent item, the following question must be addressed:

'What harm to the public interest would flow from leaving it until the next meeting?' If harm can be demonstrated, then it is open to the Chairman to rule that it be considered as urgent. Otherwise the matter cannot be considered urgent within the statutory provisions.