Issue - meetings

Request for Dispensation – Yealand Redmayne Parish Council

Report of the Monitoring Officer

The Chairman reported that he had agreed to consider a request for dispensation from Councillor Glyn Harmer of Yealand Redmarsh Parish Council, which would enable him to speak and vote at parish council meetings relating to the Klargester drainage system.    

The appeal was received on 17^th January 2011, and authorised as an item of urgent business owing to the date of this meeting and the date of the next Parish Council meeting. 

It was noted that three similar requests for dispensations to take part in discussion and vote on matters relating to the Klargester drainage system were previously approved by the Standards Committee Dispensations Sub-Committee on 8^th January 2010.   The Sub-Committee determined that participation by Parish Councillors with prejudicial interests would not financially penalise other residents or damage public confidence in the Parish Council.

In the course of discussion, Members re-affirmed that the Klargester drainage system was a proper issue for Yealand Redmarsh Parish Council to discuss, and the importance of obtaining a quorum of Members at meetings in order to do so.

Resolved:

To grant a dispensation for Councillor Glyn Harmer of Yealand Redmarsh Parish Council to speak and vote at Parish Council meetings on matters relating to the Klargester drainage system.

The dispensation would remain in place until Parish Council elections were held in May 2011.