Agenda item

Members considered renewals and applications received for Employment Dispensations, Miscellaneous Dispensations, Dispensations regarding School Governors, Standard Dispensations for School Reorganisation and Dispensations for Voluntary Sector Funding, as detailed in the circulated report.

The Head of Legal Services and Monitoring Officer discussed extending the dispensations concerning School Reorganisation to include ‘School Transport Matters’ also. Members were in agreement with this addition (show as bold and italics in decision (d) below).

The Head of Legal Services and Monitoring Officer would re circulate the offer of Dispensations to all Members, and explain which Dispensations could be applied for.

RESOLVED:                 (a)     that the Applications for Employment Dispensation as set out in paragraph 1.2.8. of the report, be approved in the circumstances set out in Regulation 2 (d) of the Standards Committee (Grant of Dispensations) (Wales) Regulations 2001 in the standard form as set out in Paragraph 1.2.6. to speak and vote and that the dispensations run to the Standards Committee which follows the Annual Meeting of Council 2017;

(b)     that the new applications and the applications for renewals of Miscellaneous Dispensations, as set out in paragraph 1.3.2. of the report, be approved in the circumstances set out in Regulation 2 (d) of the Standards Committee (Grant of Dispensations) (Wales) Regulations 2001 to speak or to speak and vote as set out in the Schedule as detailed within the circulated report, and that the dispensations run to the Standards Committee which follows the Annual Meeting of Council 2017;

                                       (c)     that the Grant of General Dispensations: School Governors, as detailed in the report, be further granted until the Standards Committee which follows the Annual Meeting of Council 2017;

(d)     that the Applications for School Reorganisation and School Transport Matters Dispensation as set out in paragraph 1.5.4 of the report, be approved in the circumstances set out in Regulation 2 (d) of the Standards Committee (Grant of Dispensations) (Wales) Regulations 2001 in the standard form as set out in Paragraph 1.5.2. to speak but not vote and that the dispensations run to the Standards Committee which follows the Annual Meeting of Council 2017;

(e)     that Standards Committee Applications for Voluntary Sector Funding Dispensation, as set out in paragraph 1.6.4 of the circulated report be approved in the circumstances set out in Regulation 2 (c), (d), (g) and (h) of the Standards Committee (Grant of Dispensations) (Wales) Regulations 2001 to speak only and that the dispensations cover all matters relating to the funding for the voluntary/third sector, and that the dispensations run to the Standards Committee which follows the Annual Meeting of Council 2017.

CHAIRPERSON