Appointment Panel – Head of Corporate Communications

Monday 4 December 2006 at 10.30 am

Present:  Councillors Blair, McKenzie, Nimmo, Chief Executive, Corporate Director Improvement & Performance and Corporate Director Education & Social Care.

Chair:  Councillor Blair presided.

In attendance:  Mr K Dalgleish and Mr D O’Brien, Munro Consulting.

The following paragraphs are submitted for information only, having been dealt with under the powers delegated to the Panel.

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

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Appointment of Head of Corporate Communications

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The Panel interviewed four candidates and, following a voting process, agreed to appoint Mr Stuart Wilson to the post of Head of Corporate Communications, all as detailed in the appendix.