Issue - meetings

To consider the initial report of the Independent Remuneration Panel on the Members Allowances Scheme to apply from April 2009.

Consideration was given to a report of the Borough Solicitor and Monitoring Officer relating to the initial report and recommendations of the Remuneration Panel on the Members Allowances Scheme which would apply from April 2009.

A scheme of Members Allowances was required for Day One, to apply for the whole of Year One and to form the basis of the Scheme thereafter.  On 1 December 2008, the Governance and Constitution Committee had formally appointed an Independent Remuneration Panel of five independent persons to consider and make recommendations on the Scheme’s provisions.

RESOLVED – That Council be recommended to adopt the recommendations of the Independent Remuneration Panel:

• by the adoption of the allowances arrangements as set out in Appendix 1 to the report;

• by the adoption of the Shadow Council’s current levels of travelling and subsistence allowances, outlined in Appendix 2 to the report, subject to an adjustment (if necessary) for inflation (RPI) with effect from 1 April 2009;

and that these arrangements should apply to the Council from 1 April 2009 for the year 2009/10.

Councillor A Ranfield (Chairman)