Agenda and draft minutes

There were no apologies for absence.

To receive any declarations of interest Members may wish to make including the term(s) of the Grant of Dispensation(s) by the Standards Committee.

There were no declarations of interest.

            RESOLVED:

That the minutes of the Independent Remuneration Panel meeting held on 8 May 2007 be confirmed.

The Panel were asked to consider and approve their report, which presented the results of their review of Dartford Borough Council’s Members’ Allowances Scheme, and refer the report to the General Assembly of the Council for consideration.

The Panel highlighted two typographical errors in their report and asked that they be corrected in the version that is presented to the General Assembly of the Council.

The Panel agreed the content and confirmed the recommendations contained within their report.

The Panel wished to pass their thanks to those officers who had been involved in the review process for the time that they had spent preparing material and providing the necessary facilities to enable the review to be carried out.

            RESOLVED:

1.         That the ‘Review of the Members’ Allowances Scheme for Dartford Borough Council’, attached at Appendix A to the report, as amended by the above minute, be approved.

2.         That the report be referred to the General Assembly of the Council for consideration.