Agenda item - Chair's Communications

142.1    The Chair, Councillor Mac Cafferty, explained that exceptionally this meeting of the Committee was being held at Portslade Town Hall as the Council Chamber at Hove Town Hall, the usual venue for these meetings, was being used to process postal votes in connection with the forthcoming EU Election. Subsequent meetings would be held in Hove Town Hall. This meeting would not be webcast as was usually the case but detailed minutes of the meeting would appear on the Council website as soon as they were available.

142.2    The Chair went on to explain that there were fewer members present that would normally be the case as following the recent Council elections the Committee for 2019/20 had yet to be appointed. The Committee was operating well above the number required for it to be quorate and all members present had received the necessary mandatory training.