Committee Administrator – Andrea Lisseter ( 823289         [email protected]

To:       Independent Members :

 

Mr B Claxton, Mrs J Harding, Mr G Hibberd, (Four Vacancies)

 

Representative of Town and Parish Councils :

 

Awaiting Nominations

 

Isle of Wight Council Members :

 

Mr M Cunningham, Miss H Humby.

Deputies: Awaiting Nominations (All are invited to attend (including Deputies) but if there is a vote only the first two (or their deputies) can vote).

 

NB.     Any other member of the Council may attend the meeting and may speak with the permission of the Chairman provided that notification has been given to the Committee Services section before the commencement of the meeting, such notification to detail which items the member is attending for.

 

Meeting :

Standards Committee

Date :

Tuesday 5 July 2005

Time :

6.00 pm

Place :

Committee Room 2, County Hall, Newport, Isle of Wight

 

AGENDA

 

1.                  MINUTES

 

To confirm the Minutes of the meeting held on 8 February 2005 (Paper A).

 

2.                  DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST

 

To invite Members to declare any interest they might have in the matters on the agenda.

 

3.                  REPORTS OF THE MONITORING OFFICER

 

Ethical Audit Phase 3 (Paper B)

 

4.                  REGIONAL INDEPENDENT MEMBERS FORUM - RECEIPT OF MINUTES

 

Minutes of Regional Independent Members Forum in Crawley (Paper C)

 

5.                  WORK PROGRAMME FOR THE COMING YEAR :

 

Meeting

Agenda Item

To be confirmed

·            Determination of Complaint

Wednesday 14 September 2005 Full Council

·            Ethical Audit/Debate

Tuesday 11 October 2005

·            Ethics and Probity in Town and Parish Councils

·            Standards Board National Conference

·            The Role of the Monitoring Officer

·            Role of Standards Committee members.

Tuesday 24 January 2006

·            Members Attendance Figures

·            Confidential Reporting Code

·            Revisions to Members Code

Tuesday 2 May 2006

·            Members access to information

·            Annual Report

Wednesday 24 May 2006  Annual Council

·            Receipt of Annual Report

September 2006

·            Guidelines on Members criticism of authority and officers

·            Ethical Audit- one year on.

Standing items

·            Report on Standards Board activity including guidance; statistics; analysis; case reports.

·            The Committee’s Work Programme

Other meetings as necessary

·            Training for new and returning members (not necessarily formal meeting of the Committee).

·            Allegations referred by the Standards Board for England and Wales for local determination.

·            Requests for dispensations.

·            Urgent ethical and probity issues as they arise.

 

6.                  The formal business for the meeting having now ended Members are invited to stay for an informal discussion on procedures to be adopted for the consideration of a case referred to the Committee by the Standards Board.


 

Details of this and other Council committee meetings can be viewed on the Isle of Wight Council's web site at :  http://www.iwight.com/council/meetings/meetings.asp

 

The information contained in this agenda is available in Braille, large print, tape and community languages.  Please contact Andrea Lisseter F 823289, for details.