Issue - items at meetings - Procedural Business

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

(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 public.

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

33A     Substitutes

33.1    Cllr Peltzer Dunn attended the meeting as substitute for Cllr Wealls; Cllr Davey attended the meeting as substitute for Cllr Sykes; Cllr Wakefield attended the meeting as substitute for Cllr Bowden.

33B     Declarations of Interest

33.2    There were none.

33C     Exclusion of Press and Public

33.3    In accordance with section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, it was considered whether the press and public should be excluded from the meeting during the consideration of any items contained in the agenda, having regard to the nature of the business to be transacted and the nature of the proceedings and the likelihood as to whether, if members of the press and public were present, there would be disclosure to them of confidential or exempt material as defined in section 1001(1) of the said Act.

33.4    RESOLVED –that the press and public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of Item 35.

24A     Substitutes

24.1         There were none, although Councillor Theobald was standing in as Chair as Councillor Rufus was unable to attend the meeting due to a personal matter.

Apologies had been received from Councillor Rufus and Carol Sajnog from the Catholic Schools Service.

24B     Declarations of Interest

24.2    Councillor Graham Cox said that his wife worked as a community nurse.

Amanda Mortenson, Parent Governor representative, said that she had co-written the report from the Parent Carers' Council at item 29.

24C     Exclusion of Press and Public

24.3         In accordance with section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, it was considered whether the press and public should be excluded from the meeting during the consideration of any items contained in the agenda, having regard to the nature of the business to be transacted and the nature of the proceedings and the likelihood as to whether, if members of the press and public were present, there would be disclosure to them of confidential or exempt material as defined in section 1001(1) of the said Act.

24.4         RESOLVED –that the press and public be not excluded from the meeting.