Agenda
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Meeting |
Standards and Governance Committee |
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Venue: |
Meeting Room 3, County Hall, Northallerton, DL7 8AD |
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Date: |
Friday, 15 March 2024 |
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Time: |
10.00 am |
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Councillors: Nick Brown, Sam Cross, Melanie Davis, Clive Pearson (Chairman), Heather Phillips, Monika Slater, David Ireton, Nigel Knapton, Andy Solloway and Peter Wilkinson. Independent Persons for Standards: Gillian Baker, Hilary Gilbertson, Louise Holroyd, Roy Martin, James Nelson and Richinda Taylor |
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Recording is allowed at North Yorkshire Council, committee and sub-committee meetings which are open to the public, please give due regard to the Council’s protocol on audio/visual recording and photography at public meetings, a copy of which is available from Democratic Services. Anyone wishing to record is asked to contact, prior to the start of the meeting, the Democratic Services Officer whose details are at the foot of the first page of the Agenda. We ask that any recording is clearly visible to anyone at the meeting and that it is non-disruptive.
Please note: This agenda was updated on Tuesday 12 March to include the covering report and Appendix 1 for item 10 – Code of Conduct Complaints.
Business
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Welcome, introductions and apologies
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Minutes of the Meeting held on 13th December 2023 and the Special Meeting held on 17th January 2024
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(Pages 3 - 14) |
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Declarations of Interest
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Public Questions or Statements |
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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 Steve Loach of Democratic Services (contact details at the foot of page 1 of the agenda sheet) by midday on Tuesday 12th March 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); or
when the relevant Agenda item is being considered if they wish to speak on a matter which is on the Agenda for this meeting.
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Feedback from Independent Persons re external training attended - Independent Persons for Standards
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6. |
Local Ethical Framework - Report of the Monitoring Officer
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(Pages 15 - 18) |
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Annual Report of the Standards and Governance Committee - Report of the Monitoring Officer
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(Pages 19 - 26) |
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Review of Standards Complaints' Process - Report of the Monitoring Officer
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(Pages 27 - 50) |
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Protocol for relationship between Code of Conduct complaints and local authority grievance procedures - Report of the Monitoring Officer
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(Pages 51 - 54) |
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Code of Conduct Complaints - Statistics and Themes – Report and Presentation by the Monitoring Officer
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(Pages 55 - 76) |
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Temporary appointments to Kirby Grindalythe and Duggleby Parish Council - Report of the Assistant Chief Executive (Legal and Democratic Services)
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(Pages 77 - 82) |
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Community Governance Review of Dishforth Parish Council - Report of the Assistant Chief Executive (Legal and Democratic Services)
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(Pages 83 - 86) |
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13. |
Standards Bulletin - Report of the Monitoring Officer
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(Pages 87 - 96) |
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Standards and Governance Committee Work Programme - Report of the Assistant Chief Executive (Legal and Democratic Services)
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(Pages 97 - 102) |
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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