Agenda item - Procedural Business

(a)          Declarations of Substitutes:  Where councillors are unable to attend a meeting, a substitute Member from the same political group may attend, speak and vote in their place for that meeting.

(b)          Declarations of Interest: 

(a)      Disclosable pecuniary interests;

(b)      Any other interests required to be registered under the local code;

(c)      Any other general interest as a result of which a decision on the matter might reasonably be regarded as affecting you or a partner more than a majority of other people or businesses in the ward/s affected by the decision.

In each case, you need to declare

(i)        the item on the agenda the interest relates to;

(ii)      the nature of the interest; and

(iii)     whether it is a disclosable pecuniary interest or some other interest.

If unsure, Members should seek advice from the committee lawyer or administrator preferably before the meeting.

(c)          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 Two of the agenda states in its heading the category under which the information disclosed in the report is exempt from disclosure and therefore not available to the press and public.

A list and description of the exempt categories is available for public inspection at Brighton and Hove Town Halls and on-line in the Constitution at part 7.1.

54a     Declaration of Substitutes

54.1    Councillor Greenbaum stated that she was in attendance in substitution for Councillor Phillips.

54b     Declarations of Interest

54.2    Councillor West sought referred to Item 47 on the agenda, seeking clarification and sought legal advice in respect of this matter as he sat on the Board of Trustees of two organisations which might be recipients of funding in future. It was confirmed that this did not constitute a prejudicial interest. It would however, be appropriate for him to declare an interest when any further report came to Committee if those organisations were in receipt of funding at that time. On that basis Councillor West remained present at the meeting during its consideration and any discussion thereon.

54c     Exclusion of the Press and Public

54.3    In accordance with Section 100A of the Local Government Act 1972 (“The Act”), the Committee 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 business to be transacted or the nature of the proceedings, that if members of the press and public were present during that item, that 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 100(1) of the Act).

54.4    RESOLVED – That the press and public not be excluded from the meeting during consideration of any item on the agenda.