Agenda and minutes

Any substitute members should declare their substitution.

Councillor Jim Deen declared his substitution for Councillor Rebecca Cooper.

Members and officers must declare any disclosable pecuniary interests in relation to any business on the agenda.  Declarations should also be made at any stage such an interest becomes apparent during the meeting. 

If in doubt contact the Legal or Democratic Services representative for this meeting.

Members were invited to declare any disclosable pecuniary interests but no interests were declared.

To receive any questions from members of the public.

Questions should be submitted by noon on Thursday 28 January 2021 to

Democratic Services, democratic.services@adur-worthing.gov.uk   

(Note: Public Question Time will operate for a maximum of 30 minutes.)

There were no questions from the public.

To consider any items the Chairman of the meeting considers to be urgent.

There were no items raised under urgency provisions.

In the opinion of the Proper Officer the press and public should be excluded from the meeting for consideration of the following item. Therefore the meeting is asked to consider passing the following resolution:

‘that under Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the public and press be excluded from the meeting from the following items of business on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in the paragraph of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Act indicated against the item’.

The Committee was advised that in the opinion of the Proper Officer, the press and public should be excluded from the meeting for consideration of item 6.

The Committee agreed the following resolution:

‘that under Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the public and press be excluded from the meeting from the following items of business on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in the paragraph of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Act indicated against the item’.

To consider an exempt report from the Director for Digital, Sustainability & Resources, as item 6.

Before the Committee was an exempt report from the Director for Digital, Sustainability and Resources as item 6.

The Joint Senior Staff Committee was responsible for the recruitment of the Chief Executive (Head of Paid Service), Chief Financial Officer and Monitoring Officer, and making recommendations to Full Councils on such appointments.

The purpose of this meeting was to undertake recruitment to the post of Head of Legal Services and Monitoring Officer.

The report provided an overview of the recruitment and selection process and the necessary documents to support the committee in undertaking interviews and selection.

Resolved,

The Joint Senior Staff Committee agreed to make no recommendations to Full Councils regarding the appointment.