Agenda item

Grant of Dispensations and Renewal of Grants Under Section 81(4) of the Local Government Act 2000

Minutes:

(At this point in the meeting Councillor S.Freeguard and Mr C.Jones reaffirm their interests in this item and leave the meeting for the discussion and voting – Resolution 4 (a) below)

 

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 explained that an extra request for dispensation in the categories of Employment and School Reorganisation Dispensations had been received from Councillor Rob Jones (Leader of the Council) as his daughter had recently been employed as a teaching assistant at Ysgol Maes Y Coed. Members approved the grant of the additional Dispensations.

 

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 2018;

 

(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 2018;

 

                                       (c)     that the Grant of General Dispensations: School Governors, to speak and vote, as detailed in the report, be further granted until the Standards Committee which follows the Annual Meeting of Council 2018;

 

(d)     that the Applications for School Reorganisation 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 2018;

 

(e)     that Standards Committee Application 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 2018.

 

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