Meeting documents

+     Cllr Miss Gibson

+     Present

-     Apologies for absence presented

The minutes of the last meeting of the Sub-Committee held on 20th November 2001 were confirmed and signed by the Chairman.

PART A

(for decision)

no items

PART B

(for information)

The Sub-Committee reviewed the information which had been made available to the meeting following the exclusion of the members of the press and public, as it had involved the likely disclosure of exempt information, and made decisions upon that information (if any) relating to this information or the decisions taken thereon which could be regarded as being available to the public.

In accordance with Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the public, including the press representatives, were excluded from the meeting for the consideration of the following items of business on the ground that they involved the likely disclosure of exempt information as set out in paragraph of Part I of Schedule 12A as set out below:

The following is a summary of a matter contained in Part C of the agenda, the minute of which it is considered should remain exempt at the present time.

The Local Government Act 2000 required the Council to establish a Standards Committee and required that at least one quarter of the membership of that Committee was independent of the Council.  The Council had decided that the councillor membership would be six, and therefore two independent members would need to be appointed.  As only one independent member had been appointed to date, the Committee had not yet met.  The independent members had to be appointed by full Council.

The Sub-Committee interviewed two applicants for the position of independent member of the Standards Committee.  The Council was recommended that, following the interview of the applicants, the appointment of an independent member of the Standards Committee be made.

CHAIRMAN