Agenda item - Constitutional Matters

RESOLVED –

That the Audit, Standards, and General Purposes Committee:

1)       Note this Committee’s terms of reference, as set out in Appendix 1 to this report;

2)       Formally approve the establishment and membership of three Sub-

Committees: the Standards Hearings Sub-Committee, the Employment Sub-Committee, and (until the specified date) the Personnel Appeals Sub-Committee, this in accordance with the terms of reference outlined in Appendix 1; and

3)       Delegate authority to the Monitoring Officer to make any changes to the Procedure for Dealing with Allegations of Breaches of the Code of Conduct for Members and related documents considered necessary to enact recommendation.

7.1      The Committee considered a report of the Director of Corporate Services that provided members with information on the Committee's terms of reference and related matters, and to seek this Committee’s formal approval to the appointment of a Standards Hearings Sub-Committee, an Employment Sub-Committee and (until the specified date) the Personnel Appeals Panel Sub-Committee.

7.2      Councillors Guilmant, Mackey, Meadows, and Shanks asked questions and contributed to the debate of the report.

7.3      RESOLVED –

That the Audit, Standards, and General Purposes Committee:

1)       Note this Committee’s terms of reference, as set out in Appendix 1 to this report;

2)       Formally approve the establishment and membership of three Sub-

Committees: the Standards Hearings Sub-Committee, the Employment Sub-Committee, and (until the specified date) the Personnel Appeals Sub-Committee, this in accordance with the terms of reference outlined in Appendix 1; and

3)       Delegate authority to the Monitoring Officer to make any changes to the Procedure for Dealing with Allegations of Breaches of the Code of Conduct for Members and related documents considered necessary to enact recommendation.