Agenda

Meeting	Standards Committee
Venue:	The Brierley Room, County Hall, Northallerton, DL7 8AD
Date:	Friday, 16 September 2022
Time:	10.00 am
County Councillors: Nick Brown, Sam Cross, Melanie Davis, Clive Pearson (Chairman), Heather Phillips and Monika Slater.
Independent Persons for Standards: Hilary Gilberstson (Independent Member) and Holroyd (Independent Member).

Business

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1.	Training - Code of Conduct and Standards Complaint handling	(Pages 3 - 38)
	Prior to the start of the meeting Members will be provided with a training session on the Code of Conduct and Standards Complaint handling.

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2.	Welcome, introductions and apologies

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3.

Minutes of the meeting held on 11th March 2022

(Pages 39 - 42)

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4.	Declarations of Interest

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5.

Public Questions or Statements

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 Melanie Carr of Democratic Services (contact details at the foot of page 1 of the Agenda sheet) by midday on Tuesday 13th September 2022. 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); 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 Chairman who will instruct those taking a recording to cease while you speak.

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6.

Update - Revised Code of Conduct for Members - Report of the Monitoring Officer

(Pages 43 - 100)

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7.

Local Ethical Framework Developments - Report of the Monitoring Officer

(Pages 101 - 106)

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8.

Standards Committee Annual Report 2021/22 - Report of the Monitoring Officer

(Pages 107 - 112)

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9.

Dispensation Requests - Report of the Monitoring Officer

(Pages 113 - 116)

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10.

Complaints Update - Report of the Monitoring Officer

(Pages 117 - 118)

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11.

Standards Bulletin - Report of the Monitoring Officer

(Pages 119 - 128)

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12.	Such other business as, in the opinion of the Chairman should, by reason of special circumstances, be considered as a matter of urgency

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Barry Khan

Assistant Chief Executive

(Legal and Democratic Services)

County Hall

Northallerton

8^th September 2022

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