Agenda, decisions and minutes

Mike Lewis, Independent Member elected Chair.

Resolved that Mike Lewis, Independent Member be elected Chair.

Mike Lewis, Chair Presided

Janet Pardue-Wood, Independent Member elected Vice Chair.

Resolved that Janet Pardue-Wood, Independent Member be elected Vice Chair.

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None.

In accordance with the Code of Conduct adopted by the City & County of Swansea, no interests were declared.

The Chair welcomed Mark Rees, Independent Member to his first meeting of the Standards Committee.

Approved.

The Committee was requested to exclude the public from the meeting during the consideration of the item(s) of business identified in the recommendation to the report on the grounds that it involved the likely disclosure of exempt information as set out in the exemption paragraph of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972, as amended by the Local Government (Access to Information) (Variation) (Wales) Order 2007, relevant to the item(s) of business set out in the report.

The Committee considered the Public Interest Test in deciding whether to exclude the public from the meeting for the item(s) of business where the Public Interest Test was relevant as set out in the report.

Resolved that the public be excluded for the following items of business.

(Closed Session)

Deferred.

The Deputy Monitoring Officer presented a report to consider whether to allow personal attendance on an appeal under the Unreasonable Customer Behaviour Policy.

Resolved that the Monitoring Officer write to the appellant again, requesting a response to previous correspondence within a 2 week period.