Agenda and minutes

Venue: Remote Meeting - MS Teams

Contact: Felicity Foley, Acting Committees Manager 

Note: The meeting will start at 7.30pm or on the rising of the Standards Committee, whichever is later. This meeting will be webcast - use the link on the agenda frontsheet or copy and paste the following link into your internet browser: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ZThkMWFlNGEtODg3ZS00MDQ4LTg3MDctMDVlMjkxMzdjYjUw%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%226ddfa760-8cd5-44a8-8e48-d8ca487731c3%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22515ca3a4-dc98-4c16-9d83-85d643583e43%22%2c%22IsBroadcastMeeting%22%3atrue%7d&btype=a&role=a 

Items
No. Item

44.

ELECTION OF CHAIR FOR THE DURATION OF THE PROCEEDINGS

Minutes:

Councillor Opoku was elected Chair of the meeting.

45.

APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE

To receive any apologies for absence.

Minutes:

Apologies for absence were received from Councillor Gunes.

46.

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

 

Minutes:

None.

47.

URGENT BUSINESS

The Chair will consider the admission of any late items of Urgent Business. (Late items will be considered under the agenda item where they appear. New items will be dealt with under item 6 below).

Minutes:

None.

48.

ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE HANDLING OF COMPLAINTS pdf icon PDF 284 KB

To note the arrangements for the handling of Standards Complaints.

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Raymond Prince, Assistant Head of Legal Services, drew Members attention to the procedures for handling complaints.

49.

NEW ITEMS OF URGENT BUSINESS

To consider any items of urgent business as identified at item 4.

Minutes:

None.

50.

EXCLUSION OF THE PRESS AND PUBLIC

Items 8-9 are likely to be subject to 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 (as amended by Section 12A of the Local Government Act 1985); paras 1 and 2; information relating to an individual or likely to reveal the identity of an individual.

Minutes:

RESOLVED that the press and public be excluded for the consideration of items 8 and 9 as they contained exempt information as defined in Section 100a of the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended by Section 12A of the Local Government Act 1985); paras 1 and 2; information relating to an individual or likely to reveal the identity of an individual.

51.

STANDARDS COMPLAINT SC002/2021

To consider a complaint received in relation to the Members’ Code of Conduct.

Minutes:

The Committee considered standards complaint SC002/2021.

52.

NEW ITEMS OF EXEMPT URGENT BUSINESS

Minutes:

None.