Issue - meetings

Appointments to the Standards Committee

Meeting: 25/02/2021 - Council (Item 15.)

Appointments to the Standards Committee

To consider nominations to the Liberal Democrat vacancy on the Standards Committee, and to appoint a substitute member. 

 

·         Councillor Dean has been nominated for the substantive vacancy

·         Councillor Loughlin has been nominated as a substitute member.

 

 


Meeting: 23/02/2021 - Council (Item 15)

Appointments to the Standards Committee

To consider nominations to the Liberal Democrat vacancy on the Standards Committee, and to appoint a substitute member. 

 

·         Councillor Dean has been nominated for the substantive vacancy

·         Councillor Loughlin has been nominated as a substitute member.

 

 

Minutes:

Councillor Dean had been nominated to the Liberal Democrat vacancy on the Standards Committee; Councillor Loughlin had been nominated to the substitute vacancy.

 

Councillor Dean proposed approval of the nominations; Councillor Sell seconded.

 

Councillor Driscoll requested that each appointment was taken separately.

 

Councillor Sell this was against protocol; the appointment was reserved to the Liberal Democrats and it was for the Group Leader to put forward nominations. The convention was for such appointments to go ahead unopposed.

 

Councillor Asker said she respected the convention but she objected to the appointment on the grounds the members had recently resigned and now had decided to return to the Committee.

 

There was dissent to Councillor Dean’s nomination.

 

The vote was carried 24 for, 12 abstentions.

 

Councillor Loughlin’s appointment was carried unanimously. However, she resigned as a substitute of the Committee immediately, due to the treatment of Councillor Dean’s appointment.

 

RESOLVED to appoint Councillor Dean to the Liberal Democrat vacancy on the Standards Committee.