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City of York Council |
Committee Minutes |
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Meeting |
Joint Standards Committee - Assessments Sub-Committee |
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Date |
23 April 2021 |
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Present |
Councillors Fisher and Douglas (Substituting for Cllr Carr) (CYC Members) Councillor Rawlings (Parish Council Member)
Ms Davies (Independent Person) |
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Apologies |
Councillor Carr (CYC Member) |
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9. Appointment of Chair
Resolved: That Parish Councillor Rawlings be appointed to act as Chair of the meeting.
10. Declarations of Interest
Members were invited to declare at this point in the meeting any personal interests not included on the Register of Interests, any prejudicial interests or any disclosable pecuniary interests which they might have in the business on the agenda. No interests were declared.
11. Exclusion of Press and Public
Resolved: That the press and public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the private report and annexes in respect of Agenda Item 4 (Code of Conduct Complaint Received in Respect of a Member of City of York Council), on the grounds that they contain information relating to an individual, which is classed as exempt under paragraph 1 of Schedule 12A to Section 100A of the Local Government Act 1972, as amended by the Local Government (Access to Information) (Variation) Order 2006.
12. Code of Conduct Complaint Received in Respect of a City of York Councillor
Members considered a report on a Code of Conduct complaint received in respect of a City of York Councillor. The matter had previously been referred for investigation following a meeting of the Assessments Sub-Committee on 26 October 2020.
Details of the complaint and circumstances were presented in the exempt report. The draft investigation report was attached as exempt Annex A. Members were asked to consider whether to:
1. Rule that the draft investigation report was not complete and that further investigation should take place;
2. Rule that the report was complete and that the finding made was accepted; or
3. Rule that the report was complete but that the finding made was not accepted.
Following discussion in private session in accordance with the resolution in Minute 11 above, it was
Resolved: That Option 1 be approved and that further investigations take place as discussed at the meeting.
Reason: To ensure that the Sub-Committee has all the information required to make a decision in respect of this complaint.
Cllr S Rawlings, Chair
[The meeting started at 2.00 pm and finished at 2.27 pm].