Issue - meetings

Final Determination of Allegations of Failure to Follow the Code of Conduct

 

 

Meeting: 23/11/2007 - Standards Committee (this Committee has now been combined wit the Audit, Standrds and Governance Committee and no longer meets) (Item 28)

28 Final Determination of Allegation of Failure to Follow the Code of Conduct pdf icon PDF 128 KB

            [Note:   the public will be formally excluded from the meeting at the                        point at which the Committee makes its deliberations on the above   matter and the following resolution will be passed:

 

            "RESOLVED: that under Section 100 I of the Local Government Act           1972, as amended, the public be excluded from the meeting during the           Committee's deliberations on the grounds that they will involve the             likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Paragraph 7C of             Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Act, as amended, and that it is in the             public             interest to do so."]    

Additional documents:

Minutes:

The Committee considered an allegation of failure to follow the Code of Conduct.

 

RESOLVED that Councillor Newnes be suspended as a Councillor for a period of two months, to take effect from 1st January 2008.  The suspension will be reduced to one month if Councillor Newnes completes training on the Code of Conduct by 31st January 2008.

 

(A copy of the full Committee's full decision, together with the reasons for it, is appended.)