Agenda item

Members were requested to intimate any declarations of interest in respect of the items on today’s agenda, thereafter, the following declarations of interest were intimated:-

(1)       Councillor Nicoll declared an interest in items 9.3 (Review of Sports Organisations) and 9.9 (Arm’s Length External Organisations – Review of Repair and Maintenance Compliance in Leased Properties) by virtue of his Council appointment as a Board member of Garthdee Alpine Sports, in this regard, a specific exclusion applied as the body was a company established wholly or mainly for the purpose of providing services to the local authority and which had entered into a contractual arrangement with that local authority for the supply of goods and/or services;

(2)       the Convener declared a non-financial interest in item 9.3 (Review of Sports Organisations) by virtue of his appointment as a Board member of Garthdee Alpine Sports, although he indicated that he had received no contact from the organisation, had not attended any meetings of the Board and according to Companies House, he had not been formally appointed by their Board, therefore he considered that the nature of his interest would not require him to leave the meeting during deliberations thereon;

(3)       the Vice-Convener declared an interest in items 9.3 (Review of Sports Organisations) and 9.9 (Arm’s Length External Organisations – Review of Repair and Maintenance Compliance in Leased Properties) by virtue of his Council appointment as a Director of Sport Aberdeen, in this regard, a specific exclusion applied as the body was a company established wholly or mainly for the purpose of providing services to the local authority and which had entered into a contractual arrangement with that local authority for the supply of goods and/or services;

(4)       Councillor Nicoll and Councillor Cameron declared an interest in item 8.6 (Enforcement of the Private Rented Housing Sector) by virtue of them being Private Landlords, they considered that the nature of their interest would not require them to leave the meeting during deliberations thereon;

(5)       Councillors Yuill and Houghton declared an interest in items 8.15 and 9.13 (Aberdeen Art Gallery Redevelopment and Provost Skene’s House Refurbishment and Museum Progress) by virtue of them being Council appointed members of Robert Gordon’s College Board of Governors, which was a neighbouring property of the Art Gallery, they considered that the nature of their interest would not require them to leave the meeting during deliberations thereon;

(6)       Councillors Flynn and Macdonald declared an interest in items 8.14 and 9.1 (Disposal of Former Victoria Road School) by virtue of them being Council appointed members of Shaping Aberdeen Housing Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) Management Board, they considered that the nature of their interest required them to leave the meeting and they took no part in the Committee’s deliberations thereon; and

(7)       Councillor Laing declared an interest in item 8.3 (City Events 2018-2019) by virtue of her Council appointment as a Board member of Aberdeen Inspire, she considered that the nature of her interest required her to leave the meeting and she took no part in the Committee’s deliberations thereon.