Issue - meetings

To submit the report of the Chair of the Chief Officer Appointments Committee.

To adopt the Council Workforce's Pay Policy for 2025/26.

The Chair of the Chief Officers Appointment Committee, Councillor Ioan Thomas, presented a report recommending that the Council approved the recommendation of the Chief Officers Appointment Committee to adopt the Pay Policy for 2025/26.

Members were given an opportunity to ask questions and offer observations.

Referring to the observations of the statutory officers at the end of the report, a member questioned whether it would have been appropriate to seek legal and financial opinion from outside this authority in this instance, given the Monitoring Officer and Statutory Finance Officer's interest in the matter?  In response, the Chief Executive noted that it was not the Monitoring Officer nor the Statutory Finance Officer who had submitted the observations in this case, but their deputies, but this should have been made clear in the report.

A member asked if the Council should be adopting the Pay Policy if there was a point of concern around propriety? In response, the Chief Executive noted that there was no concern around propriety, and that the record of this item would state clearly that the observations had been submitted by the deputies of the two statutory officers.

RESOLVED to adopt the Council Workforce's Pay Policy for 2025/26.