Appointments Committee - Monday 29 October 2007

Minutes of the Appointments Committee from Monday 29 October 2007.

Present at the meeting:

  • Councillor P R C Smith (Chairman)
  • Councillor J A O'Neill (Vice Chairman)
  • Councillor J B Baldwin
  • Councillor B J Fagan
  • Councillor C Ready
  • Councillor R T Splaine
  • Councillor M W Winstanley

5 Exclusion of the public - Section 100a Local Government Act 1972: Resolved: The public is excluded from the meeting when the Committee discusses the following item for the reason set out below:

 Agenda item no. Title of report   Minute No.    Description of exempt information by reference to the paragraph number in Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972  
 E1 Business Support Services and Chief Executive’s Departments  6

1 (Information about any named person)

The public interest in making the exception is that it is not conducive to proper interview if details of candidates' confidential life and terms of employment are to be made public.

6 Business Support Services and Chief Executive’s Departments: The Committee interviewed the shortlisted candidates for the following posts:-

  • Service Director - Corporate Services, Business Support Services Department;
  • Service Director - Customer Services, Business Support Services Department; and
  • Service Director - Customer Transformation, Chief Executive's Department.

Resolved: (1) Subject to the Chief Executive notifying every Member of the Executive of the name of the candidate (and any other relevant particulars) and the period within which any objection is to be made by the Executive Leader, and no objection being received, the Committee authorises:-

  • the offer of the post of Service Director - Corporate Services, Business Support Services Department to Paul McKevitt, presently Head of Performance and Resource Management Division, Environmental Services Department at Wigan MBC;and
  • the offer of the post of Service Director - Customer Transformation, Chief Executive's Department to Steve Peddie, presently Assistant Director, Performance and Delivery, Adult Services Department at Wigan MBC.

(2) The Committee makes no appointment to the post of Service Director - Customer Services, Business Support Services Department.

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