Issue - meetings
TO ANNOUNCE ANY URGENT BUSINESS AGREED BY THE CHAIR
Meeting: 20/09/2018 - Standards Committee (Item 15)
TO ANNOUNCE ANY URGENT BUSINESS AGREED BY THE CHAIR
The Chair will announce any items of urgent business accepted since the agenda was prepared under the Access to Information provisions.
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Minutes:
Training session
The Monitoring Officer asked the Chair if a short training session might be possible at the end of the meeting. Having sought the views of those present, who were in agreement, the Chair announced that there would be a training session.
Complaints procedure
The Monitoring Officer explained that as requested by the Standards Committee, the criteria for considering complaints had been amended to state:
If appropriate, the Monitoring Officer will then go on to apply the following criteria in deciding whether a complaint should be investigated, dealt with informally or rejected:
· Whether the complaint is about something that happened over 6 months ago as those involved are not likely to remember it clearly enough to provide credible evidence, or where the lapse of time means there would be little benefit or point in taking action now.
RESOLVED all to note.
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