Committee Administrator – Chris Mathews ( 823280        chris.mathews@iow.gov.uk

 

To:       Independent Members :

 

Mr Claxton, Mrs J Harding, Mr G Hibberd, Mrs J Scott, Mr D Watson, (Two Vacancies)

 

Representative of Town and Parish Councils :

 

Mr D Russell and Mr R Mew (Deputy)

 

Isle of Wight Council Members :

 

Mr M Cunningham, Mr V Morey, Mrs M Jarman (1st Deputy), Mr K Pearson (2nd Deputy), and Mrs M Miller (3rd Deputy). (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 8 February 2004

Time :

9.30 am

Place :

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

 

 

AGENDA

 

1.                  MINUTES

 

To confirm the Minutes of the meeting held on 19 October 2004 (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

 

(a)               Ethical Audit

 

To consider the attached report of the Monitoring Officer on the proposed arrangements to conduct a similar exercise for the Parish and Town Councils on the Island (Paper B).

 

(b)               Review of Terms of Reference

 

To consider the attached report of the Monitoring Officer on the Terms of Reference of the Committee (Paper C).

 

(c)               Review of Induction Programme for the May 2005 Elections

 

To consider the attached report on the proposed induction programme for the new Council to be elected in May 2005 (Paper D).

 

(d)               Appointment of Independent Members

 

To discuss the process for the appointment of Independent Members following the May 2005 elections.

 

(e)               Annual Report

 

To consider the attached draft Annual Report of the Committee (Paper E).

 

(f)                 Matters from the Standards Board

 

To receive an oral update on a number of complaints to the Standards Board.

 

4.                  Work programme for the coming year :

 

Meeting

Agenda Item

Tuesday 12 April 2005

·            Issues arising from Annual Conference

·            Report on the Review of ethics and probity in Parish/Town Council context.

Tuesday 5 July 2005

·            Review of the publication of Members Attendance figures

Tuesday 6 September 2005

·            To be determined

Tuesday 8 November 2005

·            To be determined

Standing items

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

·            The Committee’s Work Programme

Other meetings as necessary

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

·            Requests for dispensations.

·            Urgent ethical and probity issues as they arise.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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