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.  

a) To consider whether any matter on the agenda contains exempt information within the meaning of Section 100I of the Local Government Act 1972, and where it is considered that the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information, for the reasons outlined in the report.

• Item 8 – Update on Statutory Recommendations 

   (Exempt paragraph 5 from Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972 -  Information in respect of which a claim to legal professional privilege could be maintained in legal proceedings).

b) If so, to formally pass the following resolution:-

RESOLVED – That, in accordance with Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972 as amended by the Local Government (Access to information) (Variation order) 2006, the public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of those parts of the agenda designated as exempt on the grounds that it is likely, in view of the nature of the business to be transacted or the nature of the proceedings, that if members of the press and public were present there would be disclosure to them of exempt information.

To confirm and sign the minutes of the last meeting of the Committee held 29 November 2023.

To note the attached comments from the Commissioner.

(15 minutes allocated) (1405 – 1420 hours)

(30 minutes allocated) (1420 – 1450)

Report of the Interim Finance Director, Section 151 Officer

(15 minutes allocated) (1450 – 1505 hours)

Report of the Head of Professional Standards

(35 minutes allocated) (1505 - 1540 hours)

Report of the Interim Finance Director, Section 151 Officer

Including updates on Oracle (ERP) and Equal Pay  

(15 minutes allocated) (1540 – 1555 hours)

Report of the Interim Finance Director, Section 151 Officer

(20 minutes allocated) (1555 – 1615 hours)

Report of the External Auditors

(20 minutes allocated) (1615 - 1635 hours)

Report of the External Auditors