Agenda and minutes

1  To highlight reports or appendices which officers have identified as containing exempt information, and where officers consider that the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information, for the reasons outlined in the report.

2  To consider whether or not to accept the officers recommendation in respect of the above information.

3  If so, to formally pass the following resolution:-

  RESOLVED –  That the press and public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of those parts of the agenda designated as exempt information on the grounds that it is likely, in view of the nature of the business to be transacted or the nature of the proceedings, that if members of the press and public were present there would be disclosure to them of exempt information.

RESOLVED – That the public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the appendices to the report for consideration on the grounds that it is likely, in view of the nature of the business to be transacted or the nature of the proceedings, that if members of the public were present there would be disclosure to them of exempt information under the terms of Access to Information Procedure Rule 10.4(3) and on the grounds that the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosure as the appendices contain information which if disclosed could be prejudicial to the commercial interests of the Council and other outside bodies.

To identify items which have been admitted to the agenda by the Chair for consideration

(The special circumstances shall be specified in the minutes)

Correspondence between the Council and Leeds United Football Club on 20^th and 23^rd December was circulated to members and added to the appendices to the report as exempt information on the same grounds as the existing correspondence in those appendices.

To consider the report of the Director of City Development providing an update on progress to date of the bid to England 2018 for Leeds to become a Host City for the staging of the FIFA World Cup 2018. The report highlights the legal and financial matters which need to be considered when making a submission. 

The second report and associated appendices are designated as exempt under Access to Information Procedure Rule 10.4(3).

Further to minute 7 of the meeting held on 17^th June 2009 the Director of City Development submitted a report providing an update on progress to date of the bid to England 2018 for Leeds to become a Host City for the staging of the FIFA World Cup 2018. The report highlighted the legal and financial matters which needed to be considered when making a submission. 

Following consideration of a second report and associated appendices designated as exempt under Access to Information Procedure Rule 10.4(3) and considered in private following the resolution passed above it was.

RESOLVED –

(i)  That the legal and financial implications of bid submission, as detailed in the exempt section of the report, be noted.

(ii)   That officers be authorised to seek to secure the agreement of Leeds United Football Club to the Stadium Agreement upon the basis of the Council commitments now outlined.

(iii)  That, subject to such agreement with the Club being secured, officers be authorised to submit the final Host City Bid together with associated signed legal agreements.

(iv)  That funding for design work, as detailed in the exempt section of the report, be made available through the Capital Programme.

(v)  That this decision be exempt from Call In as any delay in the process so as to allow for that procedure would seriously prejudice the Council’s and the public interest.

(vi)  That the proposals contained in the Exempt section of the report with regard to land acquisition matters be approved.

DATE OF PUBLICATION:   26^th November 2009

LAST DATE FOR CALL IN:     Not applicable