Contact: Sue Efford

Direct Dial: (01275) 884244

E-mail: sue.efford@n-somerset.gov.uk

Date: 21st June 2005

Dear Sir or Madam

Employment Committee

Day One: Wednesday 29th June 2005, 2.00 p.m, in Conference Room 2, at The Campus, Locking Castle, Weston-super-Mare

Day Two: Thursday 30^th June 2005, 10.00 a.m, in Conference Room 3, at The Campus, Locking Castle, Weston-super-Mare

A meeting of the Panel will take place as indicated above. The agenda is set out overleaf.

Please note the following arrangements:-

Day One

Members of the Committee are invited to attend the lunch, in Conference Room 2, at 1.00pm.

The formal Committee meeting will commence at 2.00 p.m. on Day One. This will be followed by presentations by the candidates. It is anticipated that the entire process will conclude around 7.30 p.m.

Day Two

The Employment Committee will reconvene promptly at 10.00 a.m. The interviews of the candidates will follow.

NOTE: A plan showing the venue is attached. Car Parking at the Campus is limited. Further car parking is available in the Matalan/Boots/Morrisons (formerly Safeway) car park just in front of the Campus. Access from the car park to the Campus is by foot alongside the Boots store.

Yours faithfully

Solicitor to the Council

To: Members of the Panel

Councillors:

Isabel Cummings, Ann Harley (substitute for Tony Lake (Chairman), Peter Kehoe (substitute for Alan Hockridge), Muriel Kraft, Ian Peddlesden, Michael Roe (substitute for John Norton-sealey), James Tonkin (substitute for Ron Moon)

All other Members of the Council (for information)

Members are reminded that this meeting together wth the previous meeting on 20^th June 2005 constitutes an appointments procedure, and as such it is essential for the same members to deal with the whole process.

AGENDA

1 Apologies for Absence and Notification of Substitutes

2 Public 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.

Note:

(No question or comment shall be permitted under these procedures where it would result in either:-

a) the likely disclosure of exempt information or confidential information, or

b) discussion of a licensing application, application for registration, or

c) participation by its employees concerning matters related to their own or colleagues employment)

“Exempt” and “Confidential” shall have the same meanings for this purpose as they have under the Access to Information provisions contained in the Local Government Act 1972 and the ruling of the appropriate office to act as Solicitor to the Council following consultation with the relevant Chairman, shall be conclusive in this regard.

3 Declarations of Interest by Members

4 Minutes

4.1 Committee Meeting – 20^th June 2005 (page 7)

5 Matters referred by Council, the Executive, other Committees and Panels (if any)

6 Feedback from the 29^th June 2005 selection processes, interview questions and further shortlisting, if appropriate – EXEMPT ITEM (the schedule of events for the two day interview process is attached) (page 9)

7 Inteviews for the Director of Finance and Resources – EXEMPT ITEM

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EXEMPT ITEMS

Should the Panel wish to consider a matter as an Exempt Item, the Panel 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 Panel be invited to remain.”

MOBILE PHONES, PAGERS AND SIMILAR CALLING DEVICES

All persons attending this meeting are requested to turn off these devices in accordance with the Council’s statement concerning disturbance caused by such apparatus. The Chairman may approve an exception to this request in special circumstances.

EMERGENCY EVACUATION PROCEDURE

ON HEARING THE ALARM – (a continuous two tone siren)

Leave the room by the nearest exit door. Ensure that windows are closed.

Last person out to close the door.

DO NOT stop to collect personal belongings.

DO NOT use the lifts.

FOLLOW the green and white exit signs and make your way to the assembly point.

DO NOT re-enter the building until authorised to do so by the Fire Authority.