Agenda and minutes

Mayoral Committee - Wednesday, 7th February, 2024 1.00 p.m.

Venue: The Board Room - Municipal Building, Widnes. View directions

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Minutes:

The Minutes of the meeting held on 21 December 2023 were taken as read and signed as a correct record.

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Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972 and the Local Government (Access to Information) Act 1985

PART II

 

In this case the Committee has a discretion to exclude the press and public and, in view of the nature of the business to be transacted, it is RECOMMENDED that under Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, having been satisfied that in all the circumstances of the case the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information, 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 exempt information as defined in paragraph 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Act.

Minutes:

The Board considered:

 

1)    whether members of the press and public should be excluded from the meeting of the Board during consideration of the following items of business in accordance with Sub-Section 4 of Section 100A of the Local Government Act 1972, because it was likely that, in view of the nature of the business to be considered, exempt information would be disclosed, being information defined in Section 100 (1) and paragraph 3 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972; and

 

2)    whether the disclosure of information was in the public interest, whether any relevant exemptions were applicable and whether, when applying the public interest test and exemptions, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighed that in disclosing the information.

 

RESOLVED:  That as, in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighed the public interest in disclosing the information, members of the press and public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the following item of business, in accordance with Sub-Section 4 of Section 100A of the Local Government Act 1972 because it was likely that, in view of the nature of the business, exempt information would be disclosed, being information defined in Section 100 (1) and paragraph 3 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972.

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Arrangements for the Appointment of Mayor and Deputy Mayor for 2024/25

Minutes:

The Committee received a report of the Chief Executive, which requested the Committee to make a recommendation to Council with regard to the appointment of the Mayor and Deputy Mayor for the 2024/25 municipal year.

 

          As per the Council’s Mayoral Selection Guidelines it was recommended that Councillor Kevan Wainwright be appointed as Mayor and Councillor Martha Lloyd Jones be appointed as the Deputy Mayor for the 2024/25 municipal year.

 

          RESOLVED: That it be recommended to Council:

 

1)    that Councillor Kevan Wainwright be appointed as the Mayor for the 2024/25 Municipal Year; and

 

2)    that Councillor Martha Lloyd Jones be appointed as the Deputy Mayor for the 2024/25 Municipal Year.