Agenda item

To consider a report (to follow) of the Monitoring Officer.

The Monitoring Officer submitted a report advising that the Standards Sub-Committee, at its hearing meeting held on 28 January 2016, had considered a report by the Investigating Officer which had concluded that Councillor J Cartwright had breached the Authority’s Code of Conduct in relation to the matters identified.  The Standards Sub-Committee had decided that the Member had failed to comply with the Code and decided that formal censure by motion was appropriate.

Councillor C Woodward moved, and Councillor B Deering seconded, the motion of censure.

Council approved the censure motion as now detailed.

RESOLVED - that Councillor James Cartwright be censured for his conduct in respect of the matter detailed by the Investigating Officer in his report to the Standards Sub-Committee meeting of 28 January 2016.