Agenda and minutes

Resolved:

That the minutes of the Appointments Sub-Committee held on 4 April 2019 be confirmed and signed as a correct record.

Resolved:

That the minutes of the meeting held on 17 April 2019 be confirmed and signed as a correct record.

To appoint Sub-Committees to deal with appeals.

The Committee considered a report of the Head of Legal and Democratic Services which requested that Sub-Committees be set up to deal with appeals.

Resolved:

1.  That a Redundancy Appeals Sub-Committee of the General Purposes Committee be established comprising four members to deal with redundancy appeals and that Councillors Gwynne, Hamilton, Kirsty North and Phil North be appointed to the Sub-Committee.

2.  That an Employment Appeals and Ethics Sub-Committee of the General Purposes Committee be established comprising five members to deal with all other appeals to members by staff relating to employment matters (save for redundancy matters) as well as matters of an ethical nature concerning Members as delegated on 25 July 2012 and that Councillors Cross, Farrer, Hamilton, Kirsty North and Phil North be appointed to the Sub-Committee.

To approve the Council’s Scheme of Delegations to Officers.

Consideration was given to a report of the Head of Legal and Democratic Services which sought approval of the Council’s Scheme of Delegations to Officers as far as it applies to the Committee.

Resolved:

That the Scheme of Delegations to Officers annexed to the report to Annual Council, in so far as it applies to the powers and duties of the General Purposes Committee, be approved.