Issue - meetings

The first main item on the agenda is Declarations of Interest where Councillors have to say if there is anything on the agenda they have a personal interest in. For example if a meeting was due to discuss a budget application put forward by a community group and one of the Councillors was a member of that group, they would not be able to take part in the decision on that budget application.

Councillors are asked to declare any disclosable pecuniary or other interest they may have in the business on the agenda, and/or indicate that Section 106 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 applies to them.

There were no declarations of interest.

Councillor Cleaver disclosed and Other Disclosable Interest in funding application from Pink Lizard Cohesion Project, as a family member had contact with the organisation, and she would not take part in consideration of application.

Councillor Cleaver also disclosed an Other Disclosable Interest in the two funding applications submitted by Rolleston Primary School as she was a School Governor at the school, and she would not take part in consideration of the applications.

In accordance with the Council’s new Code of Conduct these interest were not considered so significant that they were likely to prejudice Members’ judgement of the public interest.  The Members were not, therefore, required to withdraw from the meeting during discussion on these items.