Agenda

To invite Councillors to declare any Disclosable Pecuniary Interests or Other Disclosable Interests they may have in items on the agenda, and to confirm the nature of those interests.

To consider Announcements under Procedure Rule 10:

a)           Mayor’s Announcements

b)           The Leader’s Announcements

c)           Chief Executive’s Announcements.

Any further Questions on Notice that are accepted for consideration at this meeting will be published in a supplementary pack.

NOTE:  The exempt  Appendix 3  attached  for  this  report has  only  been  made  available  to  Members  and  relevant  Officers.  Should Members  wish  to  discuss  these  appendices  in  any  detail,  a  decision  will  be required  to  exclude  the  public  and  press  from  the  meeting  on  the  grounds that exempt information is likely to be divulged, as defined in paragraph 3 of Schedule  12  (a)  of  Section  100  1  of  the  Local  Government  Act  1972,  as amended by the Local Government (Access to Information) (Variation) Order 2006.

(Paragraph 3: Subject  to  the  “public  interest”  test,  information  relating  to the financial  or  business  affairs  of  any  particular  person  (including  the  authority holding that information).)

To note any decisions taken in accordance with the Council’s Urgency Procedure Rules (Part 9, Paragraph 5 and/or Part 10, Paragraph 15 of the Constitution), as specified.

(None to date).

To consider any additional items exceptionally agreed by the Mayor as Urgent Business in accordance with the powers vested in him by virtue of Section 100(B)(4)(b) of the Local Government Act 1972.

(This power should be exercised only in cases where there are genuinely special circumstances which require consideration of an item which has not previously been published on the Order of Business for the meeting.)