Agenda and minutes

Chief Officers' Employment Panel - Wednesday 19 May 2021 8.30 am

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Items
No. Item

72.

Membership

To note under the provisions of the formula membership the attendance of  any nominees.

Minutes:

RESOLVED:  To note that the following Members were in attendance as follows:-

 

Labour

 

Conservative

1.  Leader of Group

 

(Councillor Graham Henson)

 

 

1.  Leader of Group

 

(Councillor Paul Osborn).

2.  Deputy Leader of the Group

 

(Councillor Natasha Proctor).

 

2.  Deputy Leader of the Group

 

(Councillor Marilyn Ashton).

 

3.  Relevant Portfolio Holder

 

      (Councillor Varsha Parmar)

 

3.  Relevant Shadow Portfolio Holder

 

      (Councillor Anjana Patel)

4.  To be notified by the Leader of the Group

 

      (Councillor Angella Murphy-Strachan)

 

 

73.

Declarations of Interest

To receive declarations of disclosable pecuniary or non pecuniary interests, arising from business to be transacted at this meeting, from:

 

(a)          all Members of the Panel;

(b)          all other Members present.

Minutes:

RESOLVED:  To note that the following interests were declared:

 

Agenda Item 6 – Appointment of the Corporate Director, Community

Councillor Graham Henson declared a non-pecuniary interest in that he was the Chair of the West London Waste Authority, an outside body which did work with Serco.  He would remain in the room whilst the matter was considered and voted upon.

Resolved Items

74.

Appointment of Vice-Chair

To consider the appointment of a Vice-Chair to the Chief Officers’ Employment Panel for the Municipal Year 2021.

Minutes:

RESOLVED:  To appoint Councillor Natasha Proctor as Vice-Chair of the Chief Officers’ Employment Panel for the 2021/2022 Municipal Year.

75.

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That the minutes of the meeting held on 10 May 2021 be taken as read and signed as a correct record.

 

Minutes:

That the minutes of the meeting of the Chief Officers’ Employment Panel held on 10 May 2021 be taken as read and signed as a correct record.

76.

Exclusion of the Press and Public

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

6.

Appointment of the Corporate Director, Community

Information under paragraph 1 (contains information relating to any individuals).

 

Minutes:

RESOLVED:  That in accordance with Part I of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972, the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the following item for the reasons set out below:

 

Item

Title

 

Reason

6.

Appointment of the Corporate Director, Community

Information under paragraph 1 (contains information relating to any individual).

 

77.

Appointment of Corporate Director Community

Upon interview of the short-listed candidates to consider making an appointment to the post of Corporate Director, Community.

 

FOR CONSIDERATION

Minutes:

The Panel, having interviewed five shortlisted candidates

 

RESOLVED (unanimously):  That Mrs Dipti Patel, Director of Place Delivery, London Borough of Ealing, be appointed to the post of Corporate Director, Community, subject to there being no ‘well founded objections’ by members of Cabinet.