Agenda item
Grant of Dispensations and Renewal of Grants Under Section 81(4) Local Government Act 2000
- Meeting of Standards Committee, Friday, 16th March, 2018 9.30 am (Item 2.)
- View the background to item 2.
Minutes:
At
this point in the meeting Councillor A.L.Thomas
withdrew from the discussion and voting thereon, in order to maintain the
Quorum of the meeting (at least three Members including the Chairperson (or in
absence Vice Chairperson). At least half the Members present (including the
Chair) must be Independent Members. (e.g. if only two
Independent Members attend, there must only be two other Members of the
Committee present.).
Members
considered applications received for Miscellaneous Dispensations and Standard
Dispensations for School Reorganisation, as detailed in the circulated report.
Members
noted that since the report had been produced, Councillor S.K.Hunt
had withdrawn his application for Miscellaneous Dispensation as Vice Chair of
Friends of Cefn Coed
Colliery Museum, as he had resigned from his position on the Board.
Members
also noted that Councillor D.Whitelock had since
applied for a Standards Dispensation for School Reorganisation matters, as he
has grandchildren of school age.
RESOLVED: (a) That the applications for dispensations set
out in paragraph 1.2.2. (Councillor S.K.Hunt having
withdrawn his application) be approved in the circumstances set out in
Regulation 2 (d) of the Standards Committee (Grant of Dispensations) (Wales)
Regulations 2001 to speak and vote as set out in Paragraph 1.2.1. and that the
dispensation runs to the Standards Committee which follows the Annual Meeting
2018, and the following conditions be applied for the dispensations:-
·
That the matter under consideration is a
general report concerning the budget of the County Borough Council;
·
That the matter under consideration relates to
the funding of the Cefn Coed
Colliery Museum itself and not to the funding of the Friends of Cefn Coed Colliery Museum;
·
That the dispensation will only apply during
periods when the Cefn Coed
Colliery Museum is owned and operated by the County Borough Council.
(b) That the applications for dispensations set out in
paragraph 1.3.4. (including Councillor D.Whitelock)
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 1.3.2. to speak but not
vote and that the dispensations run to the Standards Committee with follows the
Annual meeting 2018.
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