Agenda

Standards Committee
Thursday, 15th October, 2015 7.00 pm

Venue: Civic Centre, High Road, Wood Green, N22 8LE. View directions

Contact: Clifford Hart  X2920

Items
No. Item

1.

FILMING AT MEETINGS

Please note this meeting may be filmed or recorded by the Council for live or subsequent broadcast via the Council’s internet site or by anyone attending the meeting using any communication method.  Although we ask members of the public recording, filming or reporting on the meeting not to include the public seating areas, members of the public attending the meeting should be aware that we cannot guarantee that they will not be filmed or recorded by others attending the meeting.  Members of the public participating in the meeting (e.g. making deputations, asking questions, making oral protests) should be aware that they are likely to be filmed, recorded or reported on.  By entering the meeting room and using the public seating area, you are consenting to being filmed and to the possible use of those images and sound recordings.

 

The Chair of the meeting has the discretion to terminate or suspend filming or recording, if in his or her opinion continuation of the filming, recording or reporting would disrupt or prejudice the proceedings, infringe the rights of any individual, or may lead to the breach of a legal obligation by the Council.

2.

Apologies for Absence

3.

Urgent Business

The Chair will consider the admission of any late items of urgent business. (late items will be considered under the agenda items where they appear).  New items which are non-exempt will be dealt with at item 8, and those which are exempt will be dealt with at item 12.

 

4.

Declarations of Interest

A member with a disclosable pecuniary interest or a prejudicial interest in a matter who attends a meeting of the authority at which the matter is considered:

 

(i) must disclose the interest at the start of the meeting or when the interest becomes apparent, and

(ii) may not participate in any discussion or vote on the matter and must withdraw from the meeting room.

 

A member who discloses at a meeting a disclosable pecuniary interest which is not registered in the Register of Members’ Interests or the subject of a pending notification must notify the Monitoring Officer of the interest within 28 days of the disclosure.

 

Disclosable pecuniary interests, personal interests and prejudicial interests are defined at Paragraphs 5-7 and Appendix A of the Members’ Code of Conduct.

5.

Minutes pdf icon PDF 83 KB

To confirm and sign the minutes of the meetings of the Standards Committee held on 15 June 2015.

6.

Verbal report of Assistant Director Corporate Governance & Monitoring Officer

Report of the Assistant Director Corporate Governance and Monitoring Officer - To receive a summary of information about complaints received by the Monitoring Officer to date that a Member had breached the Member’s Code of Conduct, since the commencement of the 2015-16 Municipal Year.

 

7.

Recruitment of Independent Members for Standards Committee and Staffing and Remuneration Committee pdf icon PDF 130 KB

Report of the Assistant Director Corporate Governance & Monitoring Officer

Additional documents:

8.

any other unrestricted items of business the Chair considers to be urgent

9.

Dates of Next Meetings

10.

EXCLUSION OF THE PUBLIC AND PRESS

The following item is likely to be subject of a motion to exclude the press and public from the meeting as it contains exempt information as defined in Section 100a of the Local Government Act 1972; namely information relating to any individual, and information which is likely to reveal the identity of an individual.

 

11.

Consideration of the outcome of investigations in respect of Standards Assessment Sub-Committee Complaint referral No. SC005/1415

12.

any other exempt business the Chair considers to be urgent