Decision details

It was moved by Councillor J.R. Boughtflower and seconded by Councillor J. McIlroy to appoint the members to serve on the Committees as shown in Appendix B, including Mr. Murray Litvak as the non-elected Chairman of the Members’ Code of Conduct Committee.

Councillor S. Dunn proposed the following amendment which was seconded by Councillor C. Bateson

“That the Council agrees the Councillors to serve on Committees as shown on Appendix B which can be found on page 5 of the supplementary agenda; and the Council notes that recommendation 8 in the report of the Committee for Standards in Public Life (January 2019) calls for limiting the length of appointments of Independent Persons to a “fixed term of two years, renewable once”.  The Council instructs officers to prepare amendments to Spelthorne’s constitution to incorporate the recommendation and to take action to ensure that a new Independent Person is appointed at the ACM in 2021.”

The amendment was carried and the substantive motion put to the vote.

Resolved that the Council agrees the Councillors to serve on Committees as shown on Appendix B which can be found on page 5 of the supplementary agenda; and the Council notes that recommendation 8 in the report of the Committee for Standards in Public Life (January 2019) calls for limiting the length of appointments of Independent Persons to a “fixed term of two years, renewable once”.  The Council instructs officers to prepare amendments to Spelthorne’s constitution to incorporate the recommendation and to take action to ensure that a new Independent Person is appointed at the ACM in 2021.