Agenda item

Election of the Town Clerk and Chief Executive

In accordance with Standing Order No. 61(1), the Recruitment Panel established by your Policy and Resources Committee submit a candidate for appointment as the Town Clerk and Chief Executive.

 

The candidate will appear before the Court of Common Council (in private session) and will give a presentation. Upon the candidate’s withdrawal from the Court, a ballot by Members will be held for the appointment.  On completion of that, the public will be re-admitted and the decision of the Court can be made known.

 

Our report has been separately printed and circulated only to Members as its contents include personal information relating to the candidate, which is considered to be exempt information as defined in Paragraph 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act, 1972.

Minutes:

Election of the Town Clerk and Chief Executive 

 

In accordance with Standing Order No. 61(1), the Recruitment Panel established by your Policy and Resources Committee submit a candidate for appointment as the Town Clerk and Chief Executive.

 

The candidate will appear before the Court of Common Council (in private session) and will give a presentation. Upon the candidate’s withdrawal from the Court, a ballot by Members will be held for the appointment.  On completion of that, the public will be re-admitted and the decision of the Court can be made known.

 

Our report has been separately printed and circulated only to Members as its contents include personal information relating to the candidate, which is considered to be exempt information as defined in Paragraph 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act, 1972.

 

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Resolved - That the public be excluded from the meeting for one Item of business concerning the appointment of a Town Clerk and Chief Executive on the grounds that its involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Paragraph 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act, 1972.

 

Summary of the exempt item considered whilst the public were excluded

 

The candidate for the Town Clerk and Chief Executive, having been called in, addressed the Court on a given subject and then withdrew.

The Court proceeded to ballot on the appointment.

The Lord Mayor appointed Deputy Richard Regan and Roger Chadwick to be scrutineers of the ballot. 

The ballot for the Town Clerk and Chief Executive having been taken up and cast, the Lord Mayor declared John Barradell to have been elected.

 

Whereupon the Court resolved that strangers be re-admitted.

The Town Clerk reported that the Court of Common Council had, in accordance with Standing Order No. 61(1), elected John Barradell to be Town Clerk and Chief Executive.  John Barradell was called back in, onto the Dais.

Whereupon The Right Honourable The Lord Mayor declared John Barradell  to be duly appointed to the Office of Town Clerk and Chief Executive on the usual terms and conditions relating to the appointment of Chief Officers and subject to such other regulations as this Court had adopted or may hereafter adopt in respect of the said appointment, and to all other orders and regulations of this Court with reference to its Officers.

John Barradell accepted the appointment on the above terms and conditions, thanked the Court and withdrew.