Agendas, Minutes and Reports

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Date: 26th March 2003

Dear Sir or Madam

Employment Committee

Tuesday 8th April 2003, 10.00 a.m., Rickford Room, TOWN HALL

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

The Management Side and the Appellant are requested to wait in the Main Reception as they will be fetched from there when the Committee is ready to proceed.

A pre-meeting for Members of the Committee with the Legal Adviser and the Personnel Adviser to the Committee and the Committee Administrator only will take place in the same venue at 09.30 am.

Yours faithfully

Solicitor to the Council

To: Members of the Committee

Councillors:

Peter Fisher (Chairman), Muriel Kraft, Michael Fazackerley, Alan Hockridge, Ian Peddlesden

All other Members of the Council (for information)

AGENDA

1 Apologies for Absence and Notification of Substitutes

2 Public Discussion

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 fifteen 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 – 20th and 21st March 2003 (page 4)

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

6 Appeal against dismissal on capability grounds – Sickness Absence - Exempt Item.

A copy of the Appeals Procedure is attached as peach pages A1 - A2 and a copy of the Sickness, Absence and Ill Health Procedures is attached as peach pages A3 – A14.

The written statement of the Management Side submission and any supporting documents is attached as red pages B1 – B18.

The written statement of the Appellant’s submission and any supporting documents is attached as red pages C1 – C15.

*Paragraph 1 – Information relating to an employee, former employee or applicant to become an employee of, or particular office-holder or application to become an office-holder under the Authority.

7 Any other items of business that the Chairman decides are Urgent ____________________________________

EXEMPT ITEMS

Should the Committee wish to consider a matter as an Exempt Item, the Committee 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 Committee 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.

GO TO ASSEMBLY POINT D – THE CAR PARK OPPOSITE MAIN RECEPTION

DRAFT

MINUTES

OF THE MEETING OF THE

Employment Committee

Thursday 20th March 2003

HELD AT THE TOWN HALL, WESTON-SUPER-MARE, SOMERSET.

Meeting Commenced: 6.00 p.m. Meeting Adjourned: 7.13 p.m.

FRIDAy 21ST March 2003

HELD AT THE WINTER GARDENS, WESTON-SUPER-MARE, SOMERSET.

Meeting Reconvened: 9.40 a.m. Meeting Concluded:1.10.p.m.

PRESENT: Councillors Howard Roberts (Chairman), (substitute for Peter Fisher) Muriel Kraft, Peter Burden (substitute for Michael Fazackerley), Alan Hockridge, and Elfan Ap Rees (substitute for Ian Peddlesden).

APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE: Councillors Peter Fisher, Michael Fazackerley, and Ian Peddlesden.

EMP

Minutes – 11th March 2003 (Agenda Item 4)

RESOLVED: that the minutes of the meeting held on 11th March 2003 be confirmed as a correct record and signed by the Chairman.

EMP

Exclusion of the Press and Public

RESOLVED: that the press, public together with the officers not required by the Members, the Chief Executive Officer to remain during the exempt session, be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the following item of business on the grounds that its consideration will involve the disclosure of exempt information as defined in Section 100I of the Local Government Act 1972.

Item Reason for Exemption

Minute No. 32 Paragraph 1 of Schedule 12A of Part 1

EMP

Appointment of Director of Development Environment (Agenda Item 6)

The Committee received feedback from the following events held previously –

(a) Test

(b) Lunch with Members, Directors, outside bodies and officers

(d) Media Experience Exercise.

The following candidates were invited to attend the formal interviews on the following day –

DMB, KDR and DHT.

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THE MEETING ADJOURNED AT 7.15 P.M. ON 20TH MARCH 2003

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THE MEETING RECONVENED AT 9.40 A.M. ON 21ST MARCH 2003

Formal interviews with the remaining three candidates were held.

RESOLVED:

(a) that DHT be appointed to the post of Director of Development and Environment; and

(b) that the Chief Executive Officer be authorised to make all necessary arrangements.

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Chairman

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