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Simon Kirby
post Jul 26 2016, 10:50 AM
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http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/news/news/18...nsparency-.html


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post Jul 26 2016, 06:57 PM
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QUOTE (Simon Kirby @ Jul 26 2016, 11:50 AM) *



Swift Half complaining of lack of transparency? Really? How long has he been associated with our local authorities who are renowned for it? rolleyes.gif


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post Jul 27 2016, 05:56 AM
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Oh dear, not justice as he knows it!


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post Aug 1 2016, 03:27 PM
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So let me get this right, he asked the Council to do something, they are doing it (as requested), and he is now moaning because he wasn't informed they had started?
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post Aug 1 2016, 05:06 PM
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He seems to have a good point - how is a review happening at all without the knowledge of councillors?
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post Aug 1 2016, 06:08 PM
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QUOTE (blackdog @ Aug 1 2016, 06:06 PM) *
He seems to have a good point - how is a review happening at all without the knowledge of councillors?

Well, if the governance review had happened without the knowledge of councillors then that might well be a concern, but councillors were aware and informed. At the 13 April council meeting councillors discussed the issue and voted to commission a governance review, proposed by Cllr S Westbrook, seconded by Cllr Arthur Johnson, and passed unanimously. However JSH wasn't present at that meeting - he's missed two of the last three minuted meetings - so maybe he'd have been better informed if he'd actually been present.


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post Aug 1 2016, 06:38 PM
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While we're talking about governance, one of the quaint but prescriptive details of being a parish councillor is that you have to sign a declaration of acceptance of office (see here). The legislation (Section 83(4) of the Local Government Act 1972) says
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A person elected to the office of chairman of a parish or community council or parish or community councillor shall—

(a)in the case of the chairman, at the meeting at which he is elected;

(b)in the case of a councillor, before or at the first meeting of the parish or community council after his election; or

©in either case if the council at that meeting so permit, before or at a later meeting fixed by the council;

make in the presence of a member of the council or of the proper officer of the council and deliver to the council a declaration of acceptance of office in a form prescribed by an order made by the Secretary of State, and if he fails to do so his office shall thereupon become vacant.


So councillors must either sign their declaration of acceptance of office at the first meeting of the council or else sign their declaration before or at a later meeting if the council at that meeting so permit.

None of Cllrs Swift Hook, Johnson, or Drummond were present at the first meeting of the council after their election and so their declaration of acceptance of office had to be signed before or at a later meeting but only if the council at that [first] meeting so permit, and there is no minute of a such a resolution being made by the council. There is a note in the minutes under item 4 that "[t]heir Declarations of Acceptance of office can be completed at the next meeting if necessary", but that is not a resolution of the council (that requires a vote) and looks to me to be a mistaken belief that a councillor can sign their declaration of acceptance of office after the first meeting of the council without needing the council's permission.

Just my thoughts of course, but I wonder that a governance review might clarify the position.


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