Meeting Details

The Chair to advise/meeting to note that this meeting will be webcast for live or subsequent broadcast via the Council's Public-I microsite (please click this link) and that members of the press/public may record and take photographs except where there are confidential or exempt items.

Members are reminded they must declare all relevant  pecuniary and other registerable interests arising from any business to be discussed at this meeting.

If a disclosable pecuniary interest is declared a Member must not participate in any discussion or vote on the matter and must not remain in the room unless they have been granted a dispensation.

If other registerable interests are declared a Member may speak on the matter only if members of the public are allowed to speak at the meeting but otherwise must not take part in any discussion or vote on the matter and must not remain in the room unless they have been granted a dispensation.    

If it is a ‘sensitive interest’, Members do not have to disclose the nature of the interest, just that they have an interest.

Information on the Local Government Association’s Model Councillor Code of Conduct is set out via http://bit.ly/3WtGQnN. This includes, at Appendix 1, an interests flowchart which provides a simple guide to declaring interests at meetings.  

To consider the Planned Procurement Activities Reports considered at Cabinet on 16 January 2024.

To receive an update on activities and timescales to meet the April 2025 deadline for the implementation of the Pay Equity System. 

Katy Fox, Director of People Services, in attendance.

Recommended that members of the press and public be excluded from the meeting for agenda item 10 under Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972 on the grounds that:
(i)   it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraphs 3, 4 and 5 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act; and
(ii)  the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.

To agree recommendations and comments to be reported to Cabinet to inform the budget.

To note the date of the next meeting on Thursday 8 February 2024 at 1400 hours in Committee Room 6.