Decision - Procedural Business

(a)              Declarations of Substitutes

101.1    Councillor Shanks was present in substitution for Councillor Clare

(b)              Declarations of Interest

101.2    Councillor Druitt declared a pecuniary interest in budget items as he was a local bus operator. He confirmed that he had applied for dispensation to speak and vote on the budget items and that had been agreed by the Monitoring Officer.

(c)              Exclusion of Press and Public

101.3    The Committee considered whether the press and public should be excluded from the meeting during the consideration of any of the items listed on the agenda.

101.4    RESOLVED: That the press and public would not be excluded from the meeting as there were no Part Two items on the agenda.