Issue - items at meetings - Procedural Business

(a)   Declarations of Interest by all Members present of any personal interests in matters on the agenda, the nature of any interest and whether the Members regard the interest as prejudicial under the terms of the Code of Conduct.

(b)   Exclusion of Press and Public - To consider whether, in view of the nature of the business to be transacted, or the nature of the proceedings, the press and public should be excluded from the meeting when any of the following items are under consideration.

NOTE:  Any item appearing in Part 2 of the Agenda states in its heading either that it is confidential or the category under which the information disclosed in the report is exempt from disclosure and therefore not available to the public.

A list and description of the categories of exempt information is available for public inspection at Brighton and Hove Town Halls.

1a        Declarations of Interest

1a.1    Councillors Kennedy and Wakefield each declared a personal and prejudicial interest in Item 22, a confidential report of the Director of Finance concerning reimbursement arrangements for concessionary bus travel, as they were shareholders in the Big Lemon Bus Company. Both left the meeting during consideration on the item and did not take part in the decision.

1b       Exclusion of Press and Public

1b.1    In accordance with section 100A of the Local Government Act 1972 (‘the Act’), it was considered whether the press and public should be excluded from the meeting during an item of business on the grounds that it was likely, in view of the nature of the business to be transacted or the nature of the proceedings, that if members of the press or public were present during that item, there would be disclosure to them of confidential information (as defined in section 100A(3) of the Act) or exempt information (as defined in section 100I(1) of the Act).

1b.2    RESOLVED – That the press and public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of Items 21 onwards.