Issue - meetings

Complaint Against a District Councillor

Meeting: 18/12/2012 - Standards Sub-Committee (Item 5)

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Minutes:

The Monitoring Officer submitted a report on a complaint alleging that Councillor M Newman had breached the Council’s Councillors Code of Conduct.

 

The Head of Democratic and Legal Support Services highlighted the Council’s assessment criteria for such complaints.  He invited the Sub-Committee to use the criteria to reach one of the following decisions on the complaint:

 

(A)      to refer it to the Council’s Monitoring Officer for investigation, or

 

(B)      to take no action.

 

The Sub-Committee agreed to refer the complaint to the Monitoring Officer for investigation.

 

           RESOLVED – that the complaint now submitted alleging that Councillor Newman had breached the Authority’s Code of Conduct be referred to the Monitoring Officer for investigation.