Meeting documents

Employment Committee
Monday, 1st July, 2019 1.00 pm

Business Items
1Election of Chairman/Vice-Chairman for the Municipal Year 2019/20
2Public 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.
Requests to speak must be submitted in writing to the Head of Legal and Democratic Services, or the officer mentioned at the top of this agenda letter, by noon on the working day before the meeting and the request must detail the subject matter of the address.
3Apologies for absence and notification of substitutes
4Declaration of disclosable pcuniary 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.
5Minutes 11 June 2019
 To approve as a correct record
 Other - 5 emp minute 110619 
6Matters referred by Council, the Executive, other committees etc.
 If any
7Exclusion 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.'

Also, 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.'
8Interviews for Director of Public Health post (Exempt item)
 Job pack attached - exempt applications/CVs for the shortlisted candidates to follow
 Other - 8 DPH Job Pack 
9Urgent 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.