Agenda and draft minutes

To receive any disclosures of interest from councillors in accordance with the Council’s Code of Conduct for members.

There were none.

To consider the report of the Investigating Officer and determine whether the complaint against Councillor A amounts to a breach of the Members’ Code of Conduct and whether any sanctions are appropriate.

The procedure to be followed at the hearing follows.

The Standards Sub-Committee (Hearings), having reviewed the evidence before it, RESOLVED that:

1. Spelthorne Borough Councillor Jo Sexton had breached paragraph 1.2 of the Council’s Member Code of Conduct which relates to treating local authority employees with respect to the role they play and abiding by the Member -Officer Relations Protocol set out in Part 5c of the Constitution.
2. Spelthorne Borough Councillor Jo Sexton had not breached paragraph 2.1 of the Council’s Code of Conduct which relates to bullying any person.

The Sub-Committee considered the sanctions available and decided that

1. Councillor Jo Sexton should issue a private apology to the complainant; and
2. the Monitoring Officer to publish the Sub-committee’s findings in respect of Councillor Jo Sexton on the Council’s website.