Hampshire County Council HIWFRA 3SFire CIC Stakeholder Committee Meeting

Apologies were received from Councillor Carpenter and Councillor Huggins. Councillor Drew attended as Deputy.

Members were mindful of their duty to disclose at the meeting any disclosable pecuniary interest they had in any matter on the agenda for the meeting, where that interest was not already entered in the Authority's register of interests, and their ability to disclose any other personal interests in any such matter that they might have wished to disclose.

There were no declarations.

Councillor Goodfellow advised that she was missing from the attendance list on the minutes. With the amendments, the minutes from the meeting held on 7 November 2024 were noted and approved.

There were no deputations for the meeting.

The Chairman advised that Rob Goldsmith, the Managing Director, plans to reduce his hours gradually and retire from the business over the next couple of years. The 3SFire Board has agreed on transition arrangements after detailed discussions about succession planning and business continuity risks. The HIWFRA 3SFire CIC Stakeholder Committee will be briefed on these arrangements at the next meeting.

It was resolved that the public be excluded from the meeting during the following items of business, as it was likely, in view of the nature of the  business to be transacted or the nature of the proceedings, that if members of the public were present during the items there would be disclosure to them of exempt information within Paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972, and further that in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information, for the reasons set out in the reports.