Decision Maker: Chief Executive Officer
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
The Chief Executive Officer considered the
report on the Member’s Allowances Scheme presented to Members
at the informal meeting of the County Council Members held on 17
November 2021 and, having taken into account the comments made by
Members at the informal meeting and all relevant information,
agreed, under his emergency delegated powers:
• An increase of 1.75% to the Basic Allowance and all
unit-based Special Responsibility Allowances for the 2022/23
financial year; and
• That, if there are any increases in the travel and
subsistence rates payable to staff, a similar increase be made to
the rates in the Members’ Allowances Scheme, to come into
effect at the same time.
By whom: Richard Flinton, Chief Executive Officer, under his
emergency delegated powers and after consultation with Members at
the informal meeting of the County Council held on 17 November
2021.
Under his delegated decision making powers in
the Officers’ Delegation Scheme in the Council’s
Constitution, the Chief Executive Officer has power, in cases of
emergency, to take any decision which could be taken by the
Council, the Executive or a committee.
Following on from the expiry of the Local Authorities and Police
and Crime Panels (Coronavirus) (Flexibility of Local Authority and
Police and Crime Panel Meetings) (England and Wales) Regulations
2020 (“the 2020 Regulations”), which allowed for
committee meetings to be held remotely, the County Council resolved
at its meeting on 5 May 2021 that, for the present time, in light
of the continuing Covid-19 pandemic circumstances, remote
live-broadcast committee meetings should continue, with any formal
decisions required being taken by the Chief Executive Officer under
his emergency decision making powers and after consultation with
other Officers and Members as appropriate and after taking into
account any views of the relevant Committee Members. This approach
has been periodically reviewed since that time and will be further
reviewed by full Council at its February 2022 meeting.
The Chief Executive Officer took all relevant information into
account in exercising his emergency delegated powers in this
matter, including considering the views of the Members at the
informal meeting of the County Council Members held on 17 November
2021.
The reasons for the decision in this matter are as detailed in: IRP
Report.pdf (northyorks.gov.uk)
N/A.
Publication date: 19/11/2021
Date of decision: 17/11/2021