Issue - meetings
Monitoring Officer Annual Report
Meeting: 12/09/2018 - Audit & Governance Committee (Item 10)
10 Monitoring Officer Annual Report 
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Report by the Monitoring Officer
The Audit and Governance Committee is responsible for promoting standards of conduct for elected councillors and co-opted members and for ensuring the integrity of the democratic decision-making process. Consequently, the Monitoring Officer reports annually to this Committee on relevant actions and issues that have occurred in the previous year. This report therefore summarises certain activities for the year 2017/18 i.e. immediately before and following the May 2017 County Council Election.
The Committee is RECOMMENDED to consider and endorse the report.
Additional documents:
- AG_SEP1218R11 - Annex 1 Exempt Sessions, item 10
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- AG_SEP1218R11 - Annex 2 General Exceptions, item 10
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Decision:
Recommendations agreed.
Minutes:
Nick Graham introduced the report which included information on call-ins, election guidance issued and a submission on ethical standards.
Members noted that the submission identified a number of changes that could be made to the local Members’ Code of Conduct without having to wait for central government action. Nick Graham responded that all of the councils in the county share the same Code of Conduct and he had an initial discussion about the proposed changes in a meeting of the Monitoring Officers recently.
RESOLVED: to endorse the report.