Agenda and minutes

Any substitute members should declare their substitution.

There were no substitutions.

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.

Councillor Nigel Morgan advised the Sub-Committee that one of the candidate’s referees was known to him.

To receive any questions from members of the public.

Questions should be submitted 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 Chair of the meeting considers to be urgent.

There were no urgent items raised. 

In the opinion of the Proper Officer the press and public should be excluded from the meeting for consideration of item 6. 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'

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

To consider an exempt report by the Director for Communities, together with appendices, attached as item 6.

Before the Committee was an exempt report by the Director for Communities, copies of which had been circulated to all Members. 

The Sub-Committee’s terms of reference enabled it to consider and make appointments to the Joint Independent Remuneration Panel (‘the Panel’).

The Sub-Committee was informed that there were currently six vacancies on the Panel and that the Councils had received six applications.

Members were asked to interview candidates, using the interview questions set out in Appendix B with reference to the selection criteria set out in Appendix C, and make up to six appointments to the Panel.

Resolved,

The Joint Governance Sub-Committee appointed the following six Panel members for a term of four years (until 14 September 2026):-

1.    Ms Julia Carrette

2.    Mr Ray Chudley

3.    Mr Neal Goddard

4.    Mr Barry Hillman

5.    Miss Karen Keeley

6.    Mr Tim Ransley