Good morning,

The Committee has requested that you all read the following proposed changes to the Committee Charter, created in 1932.

(1) An authority must ensure that -

(a) where its standards committee has more than three members, at least 25% are independent members; and

(b) where it is operating executive arrangements under Part II of the Act, no more than one member of its standards committee is a member of the executive.

(2) Where an authority is a responsible authority, it must ensure that -

(a) if its standards committee has appointed a sub-committee under section 55(3) of the Act, that standards committee includes at least one member of any of the parish councils for which the authority is the responsible authority; and

(b) a member of its standards committee, or sub-committee of the standards committee, appointed under sub-paragraph (a), or under section 55(6)(a) or 55(7)(b) of the Act, is not also a member of that responsible authority.

The Committee requests that you respond with either a ‘yea’ or a ‘nay’ to the proposed amendment. All ‘nays’ must be accompanied with four details supporting the suggested changes.

Once that has been finished, we can again all expect to have a day that even surpasses yesterday’s awesomeness. In fact, if you were to reference the PSA from Monday, it says, and I quote: “Thursday? Gonna make Wednesday look like a big pile of....uh, not very good.”

So, you know. There it is.

The deceptively knowledgeable in Committee by-laws and regulations Decider