Minutes for Employment Procedure Committee meeting, Nov 12 2009, 11.00AM official page

RESOLVED:

That Councillor Robertson be appointed Chair for this meeting of the Committee.

Apologies for absence were received from Councillor P. Dowd.

Members and Officers are requested to give notice of any personal or prejudicial interest and the nature of that interest, relating to any item on the agenda in accordance with the relevant Code of Conduct.

No declarations of interest were received.

Minutes of the Meeting held on 1 July 2009

RESOLVED:

That the Minutes of the meeting of the Committee held on 1 July 2009 be confirmed as a correct record.

To consider passing the following resolution:

That, under Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act, 1972, the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the following item(s) of business on the grounds that it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Paragraphs 1 and 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Act.  The Public Interest Test has been applied and favours exclusion of the information from the Press and Public.

RESOLVED:

That, under Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the public be excluded from the meeting for the following item of business on the grounds that it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraph 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Act.  The Public Interest Test has been applied and favours exclusion of the information from the press and public.

Report of the Chief Executive

Further to Minute No. 189 of the meeting of the Cabinet held on 29 October 2009, the Committee considered the report of the Chief Executive on the expression of interest submitted by Mr. A.R. Moore, Strategic Director of Regeneration and Environmental Services and Deputy Chief Executive for Voluntary Early Retirement/Redundancy (VER/VR) as part of the Transformation Programme and the proposed succession arrangements.

Councillor Maher indicated that he would be replacing Councillor P Dowd as the Labour Group representative on the Committee for the issues set out in the report.

RESOLVED:            That

(1)       the request by Mr. A.R. Moore for VER/VR be approved in principle;

(2)       the post of Strategic Director - Regeneration and Environmental Services be ‘ringfenced’ to the Service Directors in the Regeneration and Environmental Services Directorate and the expression of interest for the post be considered by this Committee on 3 December 2009 with the object of approving a shortlist of Officers for interview by the Committee on 10 December 2009;

(3)       if arising from (2) above, an appointment can be made having regard to the observations in paragraph 13 of the report, such appointment be confirmed in principle;

(4)       further to the above, the Chief Executive and the Personnel Director be authorised to invite expressions of interest from a ‘ringfence’ of Assistant Directors for the Service Director post in question, and those Officers be further authorised to shortlist and interview suitable applicants for appointment;

(5)       at the conclusion of the above process, a further report be submitted to this Committee for final decisions subject to no Cabinet Member having a material or well founded objection to any recommendations;

(6)       the allocation of the role of Deputy Chief Executive be a matter for review and a further report to this Committee in due course.