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Chapter 25: Licensing Committees and Sub-Committee
inform such applicant or agent or interested party/ objector that such approach should be made to officers or to elected Councillors who are not Councillors of the Licensing Committee;
Correspondence received by any Councillor (whether on the Licensing Committee or not), should be passed without delay to the Corporate Director so that all relevant views can be made available to those Councillors or officers responsible for determining the application. A reply by a Councillor should, as a rule, simply note the contents of the correspondence and advise that it has been passed to officers.
Generally, any contact with applicants and/ or objectors should only be conducted with and through officers and should always be reported to the Licensing Committee. Requests to a Councillor for a meeting should be passed to the Corporate Director.
Councillors of the Licensing Committee shall not attempt in any way to influence the terms of the officers’ report upon any application.
Councillors of the Licensing Committee shall refrain from personal abuse and party-political considerations shall play no part in the Committee's deliberations. Councillors shall be respectful to the Chair and to each other and to officers and Members of the public including applicants, their agents and objectors and shall not bully any person.
Councillors should be aware that an unreasonable decision taking into account the above criteria is unlikely to be sustained on appeal. In this instance, the authority foregoes the opportunity to attach terms and conditions to a licence and will likely have to pay costs. The role of officers is to point this out and advise Councillors as to the potential risk of losing an appeal and being required to pay the other parties costs as a consequence. This needs to be balanced with the Council’s fiduciary duty towards the local taxpayer in terms of the Council being a public body spending public money.
Respect the impartiality and integrity of the Council’s officers;
Chapter 26: Pensions Committee
In addition there are two co-opted non-voting members representing employer and Scheme member interests. Although the co-opted representatives do not have voting rights they are treated as equal members of the Committee, they have access to all Committee Advisers, officers, meetings and training as if they were Council Members and have the opportunity to contribute to the decision making process.
Agendas for meetings will be agreed with the Chair and will be circulated with supporting papers to all members of the Committee, officers of the Council as appropriate and the Fund's Investment Advisor.
Chapter 27: Standards Advisory Committee
Plus up to 5 independent co-opted members who are not Members or officers of the Council or any other relevant authority.