Agenda item

STANDARDS COMMITTEE

(Charles Edward Lord OBE, JP)

31st January 2014

 

Composition of the Standards Committee

 

Your Committee seeks approval to revise the composition of the Standards Committee with a small increase in the number of Common Councilmen appointments.  The revised membership would result in an increase from five to seven Common Councilmen appointed to serve on the Committee and would ensure that quorate sub-committees of the Standards Committee, for the purposes of considering complaints and requests for dispensations, could be formed whilst avoiding potential conflicts of interest amongst Members.

 

The current composition of the Committee, which includes 5 Common Councilmen, 1 Alderman, 4 Co-opted Members [and 3 Independent Persons]) has led to some difficulties in recent months in respect of convening sub-committees where Members’ conflicts of interest and date availability have inhibited the timely convening of quorate meetings. 

 

We therefore recommend that the Standards Committee’s composition be revised to include 7 Common Councilmen, 1 Alderman, 4 Co-opted Members [and 3 Independent Persons].

 

Minutes:

(Charles Edward Lord OBE, JP)

31st January 2014

 

Composition of the Standards Committee

Your Committee seeks approval to revise the composition of the Standards Committee with a small increase in the number of Common Councilmen appointments.  The revised membership would result in an increase from five to seven Common Councilmen appointed to serve on the Committee and would ensure that quorate sub-committees of the Standards Committee, for the purposes of considering complaints and requests for dispensations, could be formed whilst avoiding potential conflicts of interest amongst Members.

 

The current composition of the Committee, which includes 5 Common Councilmen, 1 Alderman, 4 Co-opted Members [and 3 Independent Persons]) has led to some difficulties in recent months in respect of convening sub-committees where Members’ conflicts of interest and date availability have inhibited the timely convening of quorate meetings. 

 

We therefore recommend that the Standards Committee’s composition be revised to include 7 Common Councilmen, 1 Alderman, 4 Co-opted Members [and 3 Independent Persons].

 

Read and agreed to.