Agenda and minutes

Meeting called at short notice under the provisions of paragraph 4.1 of the Access to Information Procedure Rules.

To resolve that the public be excluded from the meeting under the terms of Access to Information Procedure Rule 10.4(1) and (2) and on the grounds that, in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information by reason of the need to maintain the competitive nature of the interview process and to retain information submitted by individual applicants in confidence, as disclosure could undermine the process, future appointment processes, or the outcome on this occasion to the detriment of the Council’s and public interest.

RESOLVED - That the public be excluded from the meeting under the terms of Access to Information Procedure Rule 10.4(1) and (2) and on the grounds that, in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information by reason of the need to maintain the competitive nature of the interview process and to retain information submitted by individual applicants in confidence, as disclosure could undermine the process, future appointment processes, or the outcome on this occasion to the detriment of the Council’s and public interest.

To consider matters in relation to the appointment to the position of City Solicitor (Monitoring Officer) Temporary.

(Information packs will be circulated by the department to Committee Members in due course)

The Panel interviewed three candidates for the post of City Solicitor (Monitoring Officer) Temporary.

RESOLVED – That Robert Pritchard be offered the post of City Solicitor (Monitoring Officer) Temporary.

Under the provisions of Council Procedure Rule 16.5 Councillor Lamb required it to be recorded that he abstained from voting on this matter.