Agenda and minutes

To approve as a correct record and sign the Minutes of the meeting held on 14 June 2018.

The Minutes (copies of which had been circulated) of the meeting held on14 June 2018 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.

No urgent decisions were reported.

To consider whether it is in the public to exclude the public during consideration of agenda items 5 and 6 which contains information “not for publication by virtue of Category 3 ‘Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority)’ as set out in the Local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).

RESOLVED – That in order to prevent the disclosure of information which was not for publication relating to the financial or business affairs of the any particular person (including the authority), the disclosure of which would not be in the public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would be in breach of Data Protection principles, the public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the ‘not for publication’ agenda items 6 and 7 below.

To consider a report of the Corporate Director for Place Management and Regeneration.

The report outlines proposals for the appointment of the Director of Public Health.

The Committee is requested to consider the proposals detailed in the report.

Officer Contact: Caroline Simpson on Tel: 218 1940 or email: caroline.simpson@stockport.gov.uk

The Corporate Director for Place Management and Regeneration submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) outlining proposals for the appointment of the Director of Public Health. The Committee considered the proposals for the appointment of Dr Donna Sager as Director of Public Health and for the current Director of Public Health, Dr Steve Watkins to continue in a strategic support role until April 2019 on the basis of one day per week.

The Committee were in agreement though stressed the need to ensure Dr Sager was able to undertake the role with clear responsibility and accountability for this statutory role and that there was a clear demarcation between Dr Watkins whose role was changing and Dr Sager as she took on the role.

RESOLVED – (1) That Dr Donna Sager be appointed as the Director of Public Health from 1^st September 2018.

(2) That Dr Steve Watkins steps down from his role as Director of Public Health from 1^st September 2018 and that he takes on a strategic support role from that time until April 2019 at which point he would be made redundant.

The Chief Executive to report at the meeting.

The Deputy Chief Executive presented a report back from the recruitment process for the Strategic Head of Legal, Democratic Governance and Estates – which includes designation of the statutory role of Monitoring Officer. This report included details of the results of the longlisting and shortlisting processes which followed an assessment centre.

Three candidates were shortlisted to be interviewed by the Appointments Committee and following further assessment by the Committee on the day, the preferred candidate for appointment (including designation of the Monitoring Officer role) was Victoria Bates.

RESOLVED – That Victoria Bates be appointed as the Strategic Head of Legal, Democratic Governance and Estates and that the Council Meeting be recommended to designate her as the Monitoring Officer from the date of her employment with the Council.