Minutes for Early Retirement Sub-Committee meeting, Mar 26 2009, 5.00PM official page

To note the attendance at this meeting of any duly appointed Reserve Members.

Reserve Members may attend meetings:-

(i)                 to take the place of an ordinary Member for whom they are a reserve;

(ii)               where the ordinary Member will be absent for the whole of the meeting; and

(iii)             the meeting notes at the start of the meeting at the item ‘Reserves’ that the Reserve Member is or will be attending as a reserve;

(iv)              if a Reserve Member whose intention to attend has been noted arrives after the commencement of the meeting, then that Reserve Member can only act as a Member from the start of the next item of business on the agenda after his/her arrival.

RESOLVED:  To note that there were no Reserve Members in attendance at this meeting.

To receive declarations of personal or prejudicial interests, arising from business to be transacted at this meeting, from:

(a)               all Members of the Committee, Sub Committee, Panel or Forum;

(b)               all other Members present in any part of the room or chamber.

RESOLVED:  To note that there were no declarations of interests made by Members present in relation to the business to be transacted at this meeting.

That the minutes of the meeting held on 2 March 2009 be taken as read and signed as a correct record.

RESOLVED:  That the minutes of the meeting held on 2 March 2009, be taken as read and signed as a correct record.

To receive questions (if any) from local residents or organisations under the provisions of Committee Procedure Rule 19 (Part 4B of the Constitution).

RESOLVED:  To note that no public questions were put, or petitions or deputations received at the meeting under the provisions of Committee Procedure Rules 19, 16 and 17 respectively.

Which cannot otherwise be dealt with.

The Chairman stated that the Early Retirement Sub-Committee had recently been presented with a number of cases that did not allow Members to deviate from officer recommendations.  He requested that an officer provide a verbal update in order to explain how future cases of “rubber stamping” could be avoided.

The officer informed the Sub-Committee that he would write a report for the next meeting of the Licensing and General Purposes Committee recommending that, in cases where Councillors had little or no discretionary power, officers deal with the matter.  He stated that a yearly report detailing these cases could be produced so that Members would be kept updated.

The officer confirmed that he would work closely with Members of the Early Retirement Sub‑Committee in the drafting of the report to ensure that they were happy with his recommendations.

To resolve that the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the following item of business, on the grounds that it involves the likely disclosure of confidential information in breach of an obligation of confidence, or of exempt information as defined in Part I of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972:

Agenda Item No

Title

Description of Exempt Information

9.

Exercise Discretion under Regulation 18 of the Local Government Pension Scheme (Benefits, Membership and Contributions) Regulations 2007.

Information under paragraph 1 of Part I of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972, relating to any individual.

RESOLVED:  That the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the following item of business for the reasons set out below:

Item

Title

Reason

9.

Exercise Discretion Under Regulation 18 of the Local Government Pension Scheme (Benefits, Membership and Contributions) Regulations 2007

Information under paragraph 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972, relating to any individual.

Report of the Corporate Director, Place Shaping