Present on the Standards Committee:
Independent Members
Brian Cummings (Chair),
Ken Harrison (Vice-Chair),
Stella Elliott
Conservative councillors
Cllr Chris Blakeley
Deputy Mayor Cllr Gerry Ellis
Cllr Les Rowlands
Labour councillors
Cllr John Salter
Cllr Denise Roberts
Cllr Bill Davies
Liberal Democrat councillors
Cllr Bob Wilkins
Cllr Mrs Pat Williams
Cllr Dave Mitchell deputising for Cllr Ann Bridson
Officers present
Mr. Bill Norman (Monitoring Officer)
Mr. Surjit Tour (Deputy Monitoring Officer, Head of Legal and Member Services)
Mr. Malcolm Flanagan (Head of Revenues, Benefits and Customer Services)
Mrs. Shirley Hudspeth (committee clerk)
The Chair welcomed people to the meeting and thanked them for their attendance. He asked for any declaraions of interest (item 1 on the agenda). None were declared.
He asked those present if they accepted the minutes of the last meeting held on the 4th July 2011. These were accepted.
Surjit Tour, Deputy Monitoring Officer introduced item 3 on the agenda entitled summary of complaints made under Member’s Code of Conduct. He said the code had been in effect since 2008, information had been redacted over confidentiality reasons. There had been problems over delay. In June further details had been requested as to how complaints were progressed. A summary was provided in Appendix 1. The required information had been updated and a draft protocol had been written for approval (Appendix 2).
