Issue - meetings

Report of the Staff and Support Services Committee

(Members will need to refer to the papers of the Staff and Support Services Committee – 14 February)

The following members were in attendance for this item: Councillors Garth Barnes, Ian Bickerton, Nigel Britter, Bernard Fisher, Jacky Fletcher, Wendy Flynn, Penny Hall, Diane Hibbert, Sandra Holliday, Peter Jeffries, Robin MacDonald, Paul Massey, Helena McCloskey, Heather McLain, Paul McLain, John Rawson, Malcolm Stennett, Charles Stewart, Klara Sudbury, Jon Walklett, Andrew Wall,  Paul Wheeldon, Simon Wheeler and Jo Teakle

In the absence of the Mayor and Deputy Mayor, the Chief Executive took the chair and invited nominations for a member to preside as set out in rule eight of the Council Procedure Rules.  Councillor Barnes took the chair.

The Council received a report from the Staff & Support Services Committee making a recommendation in response to a request for a discretionary allowance under the Local Government (Discretionary Payments) Regulations 1996.  The Council, having considered the request, the reports of the Staff& Support Services Committee and of the Assistant Director of Human Resources and Organisational Development which had been received, determined the request.  A discretionary allowance was approved subject to review in 2013.