Agenda
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Meeting |
Standards and Governance Committee |
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Venue: |
Brierley Room, County Hall, Northallerton |
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Date: |
Monday, 6 January 2025 |
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2.00 pm |
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Councillors: Clive Pearson (Chairman), Heather Phillips (Vice-Chair), Nick Brown, Sam Cross, Melanie Davis, David Ireton, Nigel Knapton, Monika Slater, Andy Solloway and Peter Wilkinson. |
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Independent Persons for Standards: Gillian Baker, Hilary Gilbertson, Louise Holroyd, James Nelson and Richinda Taylor. |
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Business
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1. |
Welcome and Introductions
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Apologies for Absence
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Minutes from the Meeting on 18 November 2024
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(Pages 3 - 6) |
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Declarations of Interest
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Public Participation |
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Members of the public may ask questions or make statements at this meeting if they have given notice (including the text of the question/statement) to Christine Phillipson of Democratic Services (contact details below) by midday on Tuesday 24th December 2024. Each speaker should limit themselves to 3 minutes on any item.
Members of the public who have given notice will be invited to speak
· at this point in the meeting if their questions/statements relate to matters which are not otherwise on the Agenda (subject to an overall time limit of 30 minutes)
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· when the relevant Agenda item is being considered if they wish to speak on a matter which is on the Agenda for this meeting.
If you are exercising your right to speak at this meeting, but do not wish to be recorded, please inform the Chair who will instruct those taking a recording to cease whilst you speak.
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6. |
Local Government Association. Proposed Changes to the Local Government Standards Framework
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(Pages 7 - 12) |
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Complaints Update Report
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(Pages 13 - 24) |
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8. |
Review of Standards Documentation and Proposed Changes
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(Pages 25 - 68) |
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Exclusion of the Press and Public |
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To consider passing a resolution to exclude the press and the public from the meeting during consideration of the following item. The report and its appendices contain exempt information as described in paragraphs 1 and 2 and 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended) and it is considered that the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.
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Consultation Under Standards and Governance Committee on Unreasonably Persistent or Vexatious Complainant Behaviour Protocol (Pages 69 - 80) 1, 2, 3
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Urgent Business |
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Any other business which the Chairman agrees should be considered as a matter of urgency.
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Date of the Next Meeting |
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The next meeting will be held on 14 March 2025 at 10am in The Brierley Room, County Hall.
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Barry Khan
Assistant Chief Executive