Agenda

To elect a Chair of the Standards Committee for the Municipal Year 2010 -11.

To elect a Vice-Chair of the Standards Committee for the Municipal Year 2010 -11.

The Chair will consider the admission of any late items of urgent business.

A member with a personal interest in a matter who attends a meeting of the authority at which the matter is considered must disclose to that meeting the existence and nature of that interest at the commencement of that consideration, or when the interest becomes apparent.

A member with a personal interest in a matter also has a prejudicial interest in that matter if the interest is one which a member of the public with knowledge of the relevant facts would reasonably regard as so significant that it is likely to prejudice the member's judgment of the public interest and if this interest affects their financial position or the financial position of a person or body as described in paragraph 8 of the Code of Conduct and/or if it relates to the determining of any approval, consent, licence, permission or registration in relation to them or any person or body described in paragraph 8 of the Code of Conduct.

To confirm and sign the unrestricted minutes of the meeting of the Standards Committee held on 14 January 2010.

Oral Report of the Head of Legal Services and Monitoring Officer – advising of progress in respect of outstanding complaints.

Oral Report of the Head of Legal Services and Monitoring Officer – advising of the Annual return to the Standards Board for England submitted in May 2010.

See attached return

Report of the Head of Legal Services and Monitoring Officer - To advise the Committee of the Annual Report of the Standards Committee for 2009/10, for consideration and endorsement prior to its consideration by Full Council on 19 July 2010.

Report of the Head of Legal Services and Monitoring Officer – to note the resignation of an Independent Member of the Committee and to seek approval to recruit 2 independent members of the Committee with effect from November 2010 and May 2011 respectively.  

Report of the Head of Legal Services and Monitoring Officer – To propose a new procedure and “form” to facilitate the advance declaration of Members’ interests at meetings of the full Council.

Oral update by the Head of Legal Services and Monitoring Officer - To consider training and briefing arrangements with regards to Standards Committee for 2010/11.

Report of the Head of Legal Services and Monitoring Officer –  To propose amendments to the procedures for complaints against Members as contained within the protocol for Member/Officer Relations in the Council’s Constitution.

Report of the Head of Legal Services and Monitoring Officer - To propose amendments to provisions in the Council’s Constitution that prescribe the membership of the Standards Committee and its Sub-Committees

13 September 2010 *

20 December 2010

10 March 2011

*subject to rescheduling due to meeting clashes – proposed provisional dates 19 or 21 October 2010

The following items are likely to be subject of a motion to exclude the press and public from the meeting as they contain 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, information relating to the business or financial affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information), and information in respect of which a claim to legal professional privilege could be maintained in legal proceedings.  

To confirm and sign the EXEMPT minutes of the meeting of the Standards Committee held on 14 January 2010.