Agenda for Standards Committee (this Committee has now been combined wit the Audit, Standrds and Governance Committee and no longer meets) on Friday 23rd November 2007, 4.00 p.m.

Agenda and minutes

Standards Committee (this Committee has now been combined wit the Audit, Standrds and Governance Committee and no longer meets) - Friday 23rd November 2007 4.00 p.m.

Venue: The Council House, Burcot Lane, Bromsgrove. View directions

Contact: Debbie Parker-Jones  Andy Jessop

Items
No. Item

25.

Apologies for absence

Minutes:

An apology for absence was received from Councillor C. R. Scurrell.

26.

Minutes pdf icon PDF 107 KB

Additional documents:

Minutes:

The minutes of the meetings of the Standards Committee held on 18th October 2007 and 9th November 2007 were submitted.

 

RESOLVED that the minutes be approved as correct records.

27.

Declarations of Interest

Minutes:

Councillor S. P. Shannon declared a personal interest in agenda item 4 (Final Determination of Allegation of Failure to Follow the Code of Conduct), as a member of Bromsgrove Rovers Football Club Supporters' Society.

 

Councillor E. C. Tibby declared a personal interest in agenda item 4 (Final Determination of Allegation of Failure to Follow the Code of Conduct), as Councillor Newnes was a member of the same political Group and a fellow Councillor.

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.)

Full decision pdf icon PDF 225 KB