Minutes of a meeting of the Commercial Subcommittee
Held in the Council Chamber, Floor 2A, Civic House, 110 Trafalgar Street, Nelson (previously advertised to take place in Ruma Marama, Floor 2A, Civic House)
On Thursday 31 March 2016, commencing 3.14pm
Present: Mr J Murray (Chairperson), Her Worship the Mayor R Reese, Councillor G Noonan, and Mr J Peters
In Attendance: Councillors I Barker and B McGurk, Chief Executive (C Hadley), Group Manager Infrastructure (A Louverdis), Group Manager Corporate Services (N Harrison), and Administration Adviser (S Burgess)
Apology: Councillor Acland
1. Apology
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Resolved COM/2016/001 THAT an apology be received and accepted from Councillor Acland. |
2. Confirmation of Order of Business
There was no change to the order of business.
There were no updates to the Interests Register, and no interests with items on the agenda were declared.
There was no public forum.
5.1 14 October 2015
Document number M1527, agenda pages 6 - 8 refer.
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Resolved COM/2016/002 THAT the minutes of the meeting of the Commercial Subcommittee, held on 14 October 2015, be confirmed as a true and correct record. |
5.2 24 December 2015 - Extraordinary Meeting
Document number M1664, agenda pages 9 - 11 refer.
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Resolved COM/2016/003 THAT the minutes of the extraordinary meeting of the Commercial Subcommittee, held on 24 December 2015, be confirmed as a true and correct record. |
There was no Chairperson’s Report.
The Chief Executive, Clare Hadley, advised that an additional public excluded reason for the Forestry item was required, being Section 7(2)(b)(ii) ‘To protect information where the making available of the information would be likely unreasonably to prejudice the commercial position of the person who supplied or who is the subject of the information.’
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Resolved COM/2016/004 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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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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Commercial Subcommittee Meeting - Public Excluded Minutes - 14 October 2015 |
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. · Section 7(2)(j) To prevent the disclosure or use of official information for improper gain or improper advantage. · Section 7(2)(b)(ii) To protect information where the making available of the information would be likely unreasonably to prejudice the commercial position of the person who supplied or who is the subject of the information. |
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Extraordinary Commercial Subcommittee Meeting - Public Excluded Minutes - 24 December 2015 |
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.
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Forestry
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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 · Section 7(2)(b)(ii) To protect information where the making available of the information would be likely unreasonably to prejudice the commercial position of the person who supplied or who is the subject of the information. |
The meeting went into public excluded session at 3.18pm and resumed in public session at 4.10pm.
8. Re-admittance of the Public
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Resolved COM/2016/005 THAT the public be re-admitted to the meeting. |
There being no further business the meeting ended at 4.11pm.
Confirmed as a correct record of proceedings:
Chairperson
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