Agenda

Note: This meeting will be followed by a short training session, for all members of the Standards Committee, on delivering local determinations and setting sanctions.  Exercises for this session will be circulated to members at the meeting.

At this point, members are asked to declare any personal or prejudicial interests they may have in the business on this agenda.

To approve and sign the minutes of the meeting of the Standards Committee held on 19 September 2008.

At this point in the meeting, members of the public who have registered their wish to speak, regarding an item on the agenda or an issue within the remit of the Standards Committee, may do so.  The deadline for registering is 10 am on Thursday 13 November 2008.

To receive a verbal report from the Chair and the Monitoring Officer on the Seventh Annual Assembly of Standards Committees, held at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham on 13-14 October 2008.

To discuss and agree a response to a government consultation paper seeking views on proposed changes to the Members’ Code of Conduct and the introduction of a model Officers’ Code of Conduct.  A copy of the consultation paper, together with a response prepared by Peter Keith Lewis, an expert in this field, is attached.

To review the work plan for the Standards Committee for the 2008/09 Municipal Year.  A copy of the latest approved work plan is attached.

Democracy Officer:

Name: Fiona Young

Contact Details:

·           Telephone – (01904) 551027

·           E-mail – fiona.young@york.gov.uk