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Standards Committee - 11 February 2011

Penn Chamber, Three Rivers House11th February 2011

NOTICE AND AGENDA

For a meeting to be held in the Penn Chamber, Three Rivers House, Rickmansworth on Friday, 11 February 2011 at 10am.

Members of the Committee:-

Independent Members: Nigel Gates (Chairman), Malcolm Sniders (Vice-Chairman). Stephanie Caplan, Haydn Illingworth and Peter Ratcliffe.

Councillors: Amrit Mediratta, Peter Wakeling and Ron Spellen.

Parish Councils’ representatives: Parish Councillors John Gell (Sarratt Parish Council) and Michael Morton (Abbots Langley Parish Council).

David Gardner, Director of Corporate Resources and Governance
3 February 2011

The Committee welcomes contributions from Members of the public to its discussion on agenda items.  Contributions will be limited to one person speaking for and one against each item for not more than three minutes.  Please note that in the event of registering your interest to speak on an agenda item but not taking up that right because the item is deferred, you will automatically be given the right to speak on that item at the next meeting of the Committee.  Details of the procedure and the list for registering the wish to speak will be available for a short period before the meeting.

1.

APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE

2.

MINUTES

 

To confirm as a correct record the Minutes of the meeting held on 15 October 2010.

10 10 15 ST mins (doc)

3.

NOTICE OF OTHER BUSINESS

 

Items of other business notified under Council Procedure Rule 31 to be announced, together with the special circumstances which justify their consideration as a matter of urgency.  The Chairman to rule on the admission of such items.

4.

DECLARATION OF INTEREST

 

To receive any declarations of interest.

5.

CHANGES TO THE STANDARDS REGIME IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT

 

To inform Members of the proposals contained in the Localism Bill as they affect the current standards regime.

11 02 11 ST i - (05) changes to the stds regime in local gov (doc)

6.

FUTURE OF STANDARDS REGIME

 

Councillor Ann Shaw, Leader of the Council will be in attendance to discuss the future of the Standards regime in Three Rivers District Council.

7.

WORK PROGRAMME / DATE OF NEXT MEETING

 

To agree the Committee’s work programme and the date of next meetings.

11 02 11 ST i - (07) work prog (doc)

8.

OTHER BUSINESS - if approved under item 3.

9.

EXCLUSION OF PRESS AND PUBLIC

 

If any confidential business is approved under Item 3, it will also be necessary to specify the class of exempt or confidential information in the additional item(s) and a resolution to be passed in the following terms:-

 

 

“that under Section 100A of the Local Government Act 1972 the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the following item(s) of business on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined under Paragraphs 1 to 7 of Part I of Schedule 12A to the Act.  It has been decided by the Council that in all the circumstances, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.”


 

(Note:  If other confidential business is approved under item 3, it will also be necessary to specify the class of exempt or confidential information in the additional items).

1.

OTHER BUSINESS - if approved under item 3.