Agendas, Minutes and Reports

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Date: 24th June 2003

Dear Sir or Madam

Employment Committee

DAY ONE: Monday 7th July 2003, 6.00 p.m., rickford room, TOWN HALL

day two: TUESDAY 8TH JUlY 2003, 10.00 a.m., chairman’s office, town hall (pre meeting 09.30 a.m.)

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

Yours faithfully

Solicitor to the Council

To: Members of the Committee

Councillors:

Nigel Ashton, Isabel Cummings, Peter Fisher (Chairman), Muriel Kraft, Ronald Moon, Howard Roberts. 1 Liberal Democrat Seat Vacant (to be advised).

c.c.

Glyn Duck, Roz Willis

All other Members of the Council (for information)

Members are reminded that this and subsequent meetings constitutes an appointment 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 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 - 3rd June 2003 (page 4)

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

6 Interviews for the Assistant Director of Housing and Social Services (Adult Care) – Exempt Item .(copies of schedule of events for two day process and copies of the applications attached page 6)

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

Tuesday 3rd June 2003

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

Meeting Commenced: 4.35 p.m. Meeting Concluded : 5.27 p.m.

PRESENT: Councillors Peter Fisher (Chairman), Isabel Cummings, Muriel Kraft, Howard Roberts (substitute for Councillor Ian Peddlesden), and Roz Willis (substitute for Councillor Ron Moon).

APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE: Councillors Ron Moon and Ian Peddlesden.

EMP

Election of Chairman (Agenda Item 1)

RESOLVED: that Councillor Fisher be elected Chairman for the appointment process for the post of Assistant Director (Adult Care).

EMP

Minutes – 8th April 2003 (Agenda Item 5.1)

RESOLVED: that the minutes of the meeting held on 8th April 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 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. 4 Paragraph 1 of Schedule 12A of Part 1

EMP

Short listing for the Appointment of Assistant Director (Adult Care) (Agenda Item 7)

The Committee considered the applications submitted together with an application, received after the closing date, and received the advice of the Chief Executive and the officers present.

The Committee having regard to the need to have a sufficient shortlist of candidates for interview to make an appointment, accepted the late application.

RESOLVED: that the following candidates be shortlisted for interviews to be held on 7th and 8th July 2003:

JG, JoG, SR, PS, TZ, LHA

(1st reserve – NF, 2nd reserve – BE).

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Chairman

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