Agenda and decisions

An apology for lateness and possible non-attendance was received on behalf of Councillor Moema.

NOTED

The Chair will consider the admission of any late items of Urgent Business. Late items of Urgent Business will be considered under the agenda item where they appear. New items of unrestricted urgent business will be dealt with under Item 4 below. New items of exempt urgent business will be dealt with under Item 7 below.

There were no items of urgent business.

NOTED

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 8.1-15.2 of Section Two of Part 5 of the Constitution  and Appendix A of the Members’ Code of Conduct.

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 8.1-15.2 of Section Two of Part 5 of the Constitution  and Appendix A of the Members’ Code of Conduct.

There were no declarations of interests.

NOTED

There were no items of unrestricted urgent business.

NOTED

Note from the Governance Services Manager

Items 6-7 allow for the consideration of exempt information.

Proposed resolution:

THAT the press and public be excluded from the proceedings of the Standards Committee during consideration of Exempt items 6-7 on the agenda on the grounds that it is likely, in the view of the nature of the business to be transacted, that were members of the public to be present, there would be disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraph 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972 as amended.

RESOLVED

THAT the press and public be excluded from the proceedings of the Standards Committee during consideration of Exempt item 6 on the agenda on the grounds that it is likely, in the view of the nature of the business to be transacted, that were members of the public to be present, there would be disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraph 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972 as amended.

This report seeks the approval of the appointment of co-opted members to Standards Committee. The recommended appointments will require formal agreement of Full Council.

RESOLVED

i.  That approval be given to the appointment of

   two persons to fill two co-opted member vacancies

  to Standards Committee for a period of four years from their

   confirmed date of appointment by Full Council on

  22 January 2020;

ii.  That Full Council be recommended to confirm the appointment

 of the two persons as detailed in resolution i. above at its

meeting on 22 January 2020.

There were no items of exempt urgent business.

NOTED