Issue - meetings
Appointment of Standards Hearings Sub-Committee
Meeting: 18/10/2023 - Audit and Governance Committee (Item 230)
230 Appointment of Standards Hearings Sub-Committee 
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Purpose
To invite the Committee to appoint members to the Standards Hearings Sub-Committee.
Recommendations
That the Audit and Governance Committee resolves to:
1. Agree to establish the Standards Hearings Sub-Committee.
2. Appoint the three members of the Audit and Governance Committee named in Annex A to the Standards Hearings Sub-Committee for the remainder of the current municipal year, in accordance with political proportionality (2 Liberal Democrat, 1 Conservative).
3. Delegate authority to the Director of Governance and Development to determine who will be the Independent Person at a Standards Hearings Sub-Committee meeting and, where relevant, who will be the Town and Parish Council representative attending in an advisory capacity.
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Minutes:
The Chair introduced the item and highlighted the membership of the Committee as; Patrick Coleman (Liberal Democrat), Clare Muir (Liberal Democrat) and Len Wilkins (Conservative).
The purpose of the item was to invite the Committee to appoint members to the Standards Hearings Sub-Committee.
The Chair invited the Director for Governance to address the Committee. The Director for Governance explained that the Independent Person in the report was different from the Independent Member on the Audit and Governance Committee, and was to ensure independence and fulfil a ‘critical friend’ function.
RESOLVED: To;
1. Agree to establish the Standards Hearings Sub-Committee.
2. Appoint three members of the Audit and Governance
Committee named in Annex A (Councillors Coleman, Muir and Wilkins) to the Standards Hearings Sub-Committee for the remainder of the current municipal year, in accordance with political proportionality (2 Liberal Democrat, 1 Conservative).
3. Delegate authority to the Director of Governance and Development to determine who will be the Independent Person at a Standards Hearings Sub-Committee meeting and, where relevant, who will be the Town and Parish Council representative attending in an advisory capacity.