Minutes of an extraordinary meeting of the Governance Committee
Held in the Council Chamber, Civic House, 110 Trafalgar Street, Nelson
On Thursday 24 December 2015, commencing at 9.38am
Present: Councillor I Barker (Chairperson), Her Worship the Mayor R Reese, Councillors E Davy, K Fulton, P Matheson, B McGurk, G Noonan, and Mr J Murray
In Attendance: Councillors M Ward and T Skinner, Chief Executive (C Hadley), Group Manager Infrastructure (A Louverdis), Manager Communications (P Shattock), and Administration Adviser (G Brown)
Apologies: Councillors L Acland (Deputy Chairperson), P Rainey, and Mr J Peters
Resolved GOV/2015/087 THAT apologies be received and accepted from Councillors Acland and Rainey, and Mr Peters. |
2. Confirmation of Order of Business
The Chairperson advised of one late item for the public excluded part of the meeting, and that the following resolution needed to be passed for the item to be considered:
2.1 Tenancy Options for CBD Building Late item memo M1672 refers. |
Resolved GOV/2015/088 THAT the public excluded item Tenancy Options for CBD Building be considered at this meeting as a major item not on the agenda, pursuant to Section 46A(7)(a) of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987, to enable a timely decision to be made |
There were no update to the Interests Register, and no interests with items on the agenda were declared.
There was no public forum.
5. Exclusion of the Public |
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Resolved GOV/2015/089 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: |
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Item |
General subject of each matter to be considered |
Reason for passing this resolution in relation to each matter |
Particular interests protected (where applicable) |
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Tenancy options for CBD building
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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 |
The meeting went into public excluded session at 9.40am and resumed in public session at 9.42am.
6. Re-admittance of the Public |
Resolved GOV/2015/090 THAT the public be re-admitted to the meeting. |
There being no further business the meeting ended at 9.42am.
Confirmed as a correct record of proceedings:
Chairperson
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