Agenda and minutes

To approve as a correct record and sign the Minutes of the meeting held on 9 March 2016.

The Minutes (copies of which had been circulated) of the meeting held on 9 March 2016 were approved as a correct record and signed by the Chair.

Councillors and officers were invited to declare any interests they had in any of the items on the agenda for the meeting.

No declarations of interest were made.

Members of the public are invited to put questions to the Chair and Executive Councillors on any matters within the powers and duties of the Executive, subject to the exclusions set out in the Code of Practice.  (Questions must be submitted no later than 30 minutes prior to the commencement of the meeting on the card provided.  These are available at the meeting. You can also submit via the Council’s website at www.stockport.gov.uk/publicquestions)

Members of the public were invited to put questions to the Chair on any matters within the powers and duties of the Area Committee, subject to the exclusions set out in the Code of Practice.

No public questions were submitted.

To consider whether it is in the public to exclude the public during consideration of agenda item 5 which contains information “not for publication by virtue of Category 3 ‘Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority)’ as set out in the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended).

iTEMRESOLVED – That in order to prevent the disclosure of information which was not for publication relating to the financial or business affairs of the any particular person (including the authority), the disclosure of which would not be in the public interest, would not be fair and would be in breach of Data Protection principles, the public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the ‘not for publication’ agenda item 5 “Appointment of The Head of Legal and Democratic Governance”  (see Minute 5 below)

A representative of the Chief Executive will provide an update at the meeting.

Officer Contact: Sue Williams on Tel: 474 2175 or email: sue.williams@stockport.gov.uk

The Chief Executive gave an outline of the process that took place at the Assessment Centre where candidates underwent an assessment centre..

A summary was provided on each of the 5 Candidates with recommendations to take through 2 to the reconvened Appointments Committee the following day on 24^th March 2016.

RESOLVED – That the two candidates be invited to be interviewed by this Committee on Thursday 24^th March at 1.00pm

At 17.31 pm it was

RESOLVED – That the meeting be adjourned.

The meeting reconvened on Thursday 24 March 2016 at 1.00pm

A final Interview was undertaken by the Appointments Committee of 2 candidates for the Post of Head of Legal and Democratic Governance.

RESOLVED – That the post of head of Legal and Democratic Governance including the Monitoring Officer role be offered to Celia Tierney.