Issue - meetings

To comply with the Local Government Act 2000 and the guidance provided by the Standards Board of England on composition of Committees, the Standards Committee should have a chair who is an independent Member.

Since the recruitment of the independent Members is being considered elsewhere on this Agenda, a Chairman needs to be appointed for this meeting and any subsequent ones before the independent members are in post.

Report of the Governance Group attached.

It was reported that in order to comply with the Local Government Act 2000, and guidance from the Standards Board for England, the Standards Committee should have a Chairman who was an Independent Member.  A Chairman was therefore appointed for the period prior to the recruitment of the Committee’s Independent Members.  

RESOLVED

That Councillor Lesley Smetham be appointed Chairman of the Cheshire East Standards Committee for this meeting and any subsequent meetings before the independent members are in post.