AGENDA

Extraordinary meeting of the

Commercial Subcommittee

Thursday 24 December 2015

Commencing at 9.00am

Council Chamber

Civic House

110 Trafalgar Street, Nelson

Membership: Mr John Murray (Chairperson), Her Worship the Mayor Rachel Reese, Councillors Luke Acland and Gaile Noonan, and Mr John Peters

Guidelines for councillors attending the meeting, who are not members of the Committee, as set out in Standing Orders:

· All councillors, whether or not they are members of the Committee, may attend Committee meetings (SO 2.12.2)

· At the discretion of the Chair, councillors who are not Committee members may speak, or ask questions about a matter.

· Only Committee members may vote on any matter before the Committee (SO 3.14.1)

It is good practice for both Committee members and non-Committee members to declare any interests in items on the agenda.  They should withdraw from the room for discussion and voting on any of these items.

Commercial Subcommittee

24 December 2015

Page No.

1. Apologies

Apologies have been received from Councillor Acland and Mr John Peters.

2.       Confirmation of Order of Business

3.       Interests

3.1       Updates to the Interests Register

3.2       Identify any conflicts of interest in the agenda

4.       Public Forum

Public Excluded Business

5.       Exclusion of the Public

Recommendation

THAT the public be excluded from the following parts of the proceedings of this meeting.

The general subject of each matter to be considered while the public is excluded, the reason for passing this resolution in relation to each matter and the specific grounds under section 48(1) of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 for the passing of this resolution are as follows: 

Item	General subject of each matter to be considered	Reason for passing this resolution in relation to each matter	Particular interests protected (where applicable)
1.	Tenancy Options for CBD Building	Section 48(1)(a) The public conduct of this matter would be likely to result in disclosure of information for which good reason exists under section 7.	The withholding of the information is necessary: ·    Section 7(2)(h) To enable the local authority to carry out, without prejudice or disadvantage, commercial activities.

6.       Re-admittance of the public

Recommendation

THAT the public be re-admitted to the meeting.