Consideration of Investigating Officer's Final Reports - Complaint References: 07/10, 08/10 and 09/10
[To consider the Investigating Officer's Final Reports into three linked complaints against Clent Parish Councillors J. Skelding, Mrs. M. Hobbis and R. Waldron.]
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Further to a referral from the Standards Assessment Sub-Committee in September 2010, the Committee was asked to give consideration, under Regulation 17 of the Standards Committee (England) Regulations 2008, to a complaint made against three Parish Councillors who had allegedly failed to declare prejudicial interests at meetings of the Parish Council between April 2007 and September 2010 in relation to a project to build social housing in Clent.
The Investigating Officer had produced three separate reports, one for each Subject Member concerned. Members were requested to consider the Investigating Officer’s reports and findings of no failure to follow the Code of Conduct in relation to the complaints refs 07/10, 08/10 and 09/10.
RESOLVED that the Investigating Officer’s findings of no failure (“a finding of acceptance”) in relation to the allegations against all three Parish Councillors, as detailed in the Investigating Officers final reports, to comply with the codes of conduct of Clent Parish Council in relation to their actions at Parish Councils meetings between April 2007 and September 2010 be accepted.