The Inverclyde Council

Monday 27 October 2003 at 4.00 pm

Present:   Provost Rebecchi, Councillors Blair, Forbes, Fyfe, Gallacher, Hill, Hunter, McCabe, McCormick (M), McCormick, (P), Mitchell, Moran, Nimmo, Roach, Robertson, Snoddy, Stewart, Tucker.

Chair:  Provost Rebecchi presided.

In attendance:  Chief Executive, Depute Chief Executive, Director of Community & Protective Services, Director of Finance, Director of Legal & Support Services, Head of Property Services and Managing Solicitor (Committees/ Contracts).

Apologies:  Councillors McKenzie and White.

The Council adjourned its meeting immediately to allow the deliberations of the Special Waterfront Working Group to continue and re-convened at 5.20 pm.

It was agreed in terms of Section 50(A)(4) of the Local Government Act (Scotland) 1973 as amended, that the public and press be excluded from the meeting for the following item on the ground that the business involved the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraph 6, 8 and 12 of Part 1 of Schedule 7(A) of the Act.

745(A)

Waterfront Leisure Complex

Arbitration Proceedings: Mowlem -v- Inverclyde Council

745(A)

There was submitted a list of written recommendations following on the deliberations of the Special Waterfront Working Group and the Council agreed to grant authority to the Chief Executive in accordance with the written list, all as detailed in the Appendix.