The Chair, Councillor Paul Doughty, informed the meeting that he would be relinquishing the chair for the recruitment process for this post and Councillor Phil Davies, Vice-Chair, took the chair.

Councillor Phil Davies in the Chair

Members are asked to consider whether they have any disclosable pecuniary or non pecuniary interests in connection with any item(s) on this agenda and, if so, to declare them and state the nature of the interest.

Members of the Committee were requested to declare whether they had any disclosable pecuniary and / or any other relevant interest in connection with the item on this agenda and, if so, to declare it and state the nature of such interest.

No such declarations were made.

The public may be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the following item of business on the grounds that it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information.

RECOMMENDED –

That in accordance with section 100A (4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the following item of business, on the grounds that it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined by the relevant paragraphs of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to that Act. The public interest test has been applied and favours exclusion.

Resolved - That, under section 100 (A) (4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the following item of business on the grounds that it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined by paragraph 1 of Part I of Schedule 12A (as amended) to that Act.

To consider the applications and decide upon a shortlist of candidates for this post.

The Head of Human Resources and Organisational Development welcomed Johnathan Swain from the recruitment consultants, Penna, to the meeting. Johnathan Swain gave a summary of the 16 applications which had been received for the post Director of Resources and the Committee then considered which of the 16 candidates should be short listed for the next stage of the selection process.

Resolved – That the following 7 candidates be short listed for the next stage of the selection process on Thursday, 1 August – candidate numbers, 1, 3, 9, 11, 14, 15 and 16.