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23.

Declarations of Interest

To receive declarations of the existence and nature of any Disclosable Pecuniary Interests from Members in respect of any item to be considered at the meeting.

Minutes:

No declarations of interest were made by councillors regarding the item on the Agenda.

24.

Appointment of Monitoring Officer and Section 151 Officer pdf icon PDF 97 KB

This report sets out the recommendations of the Council’s Chief Executive and Head of Paid Service, Kathryn Beldon, and of the Appointment Panel, convened in accordance with the Constitution, regarding the appointment of the Council’s Monitoring Officer, and also recommends the appointment of the Section 151 Officer.

Minutes:

Council received a report from the Chief Executive and Head of Paid Service, Kathryn Beldon, and the Appointment Panel, convened in accordance with the Constitution, regarding the appointment of the Council’s Monitoring Officer and the Section 151 Officer.

Councillor Eber Kington MOVED, and Councillor Clive Smitheram SECONDED the recommendations in the report.

In moving the recommendations, Councillor Kington thanked the Head of HR and Organisational Development and her team for their support and his colleagues on the Panel.  He commended the appointment of Amardip Healy as the Council’s Monitoring Officer, welcomed the interim appointment of Danny Surowiak to that role and the permanent appointment of Lee Duffy as the Council’s Section 151 Officer.

Upon being put the recommendations were CARRIED (Unanimously). 

Accordingly, it was

RESOLVED that:

(1)          That Amardip Healy be appointed as the Council’s Monitoring Officer upon commencement of her employment as Chief Legal Officer;

(2)          That in the period from 1 December 2017 until Amardip Healy takes up her role, the Principal Solicitor, Danny Surowiak be appointed Monitoring Officer;

(3)          That Council notes that, with effect from the commencement of employment of the Chief Operating Officer on 2 January 2018, the role of Director of Finance & Resources will cease to form part of the Council’s establishment;

(4)          That with effect from 2 January 2018 Lee Duffy be appointed as the Council’s Section 151 Officer on a permanent basis while undertaking his substantive role as Head of Financial Services (which will be re-designated as Chief Finance Officer from the same date).

(5)          Authorises the Chief Executive to make arrangements to amend the Council’s Constitution to reflect the changes in staffing structure including, for example, re-allocating delegated functions between the Chief Executive, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Finance Officer and Chief Legal Officer, in such ways as she thinks fit.