 Ddiw i'r gweithio siŵr i siŵr i siŵr a sydd wedi'i gweithio'r gweithio'r fawr i'ch bod yn ymwneud fy rhai gŵr teimlo y gweithio.deniho'i gweithio'r gweithio'n Llywodraeth Cymru ar 14 o March. My name is London Councilor Peter Feine, ac rwy'n sefydlu'n ei fod y gallu'r gweithio. Rydym y fformlaen Llunodau o Gweithio Paeth, mae'n gwaith y Gweithio i review'r Cymru, ar eich rheswm yn anhygoel, ac ar gyfer y cyflinio i gweithio'nSome ethical sydd. I will start with a few household announcements which may be familiar to you. For those present in the Chamber, as you know everything on your desk including your laptop screen, it may be broadcast at some point. The camera follows the microphone being switched on so if councillors and officers would wait a couple of seconds before am gweithio i'r ffordd o'r cymdeithas iawn. Felly, o'r ffordd o'r gweithio ar y ffordd o'r gweithio, felly, i chi, os ydych, mae'n pwylltu'n ddiddordeb, ond, sy'n gweithio ar y ffordd, mae'n ffordd o'r gweithio. mae'n gweithio ar gyfer y ffordd o'r gweithio, mae'r gweithio ar y ffordd. We have apologies from my vice-chair and councillor Paul Beehr Park. Could I invite somebody to take the vice-chair, if there's any need to physically move positions. But if members would forgive me, I'm going to ask councillor van der Venn if she were acting as vice-chair. Not a very demanding role for this meeting, but she has a certain amount of experience with this committee in the past. So, ydyn, a ffordd? Thank you, take indeed. Thank you. Perhaps the officers would just keep an eye on whether somebody does choose to join us online, in which case I would revert to the relevant section. But for the moment I'm not proposing to go through all that. It's all very familiar to those present. So item one on our agenda is Apologies for absence. ddweudodd a'r ddweudio'r cyfnodd dynion. So, dweudwch, fel cyfnodd, ddim ddweudwch mewn ddweudwch hefyd. Ddweudwch hefyd, ddweudwch hefyd, Henry Bachelor, Amber Heddych Smith. A ddweudwch hefyd Dr Tumihawr Kins i'ch ddweudwch hefyd o ddweudwch hefyd. A'r ddweudwch hefyd, Llywydd. Ie, ddweudwch, Llynan Mieto. Wnaeth hynny'n gweithio gydig i'w hynny'n deall. 2. Does any members have interest in declaring any item of business on this agenda? It is good, to be frank, but… Now we come to item 3, minutes. Before I take approve of these minutes, I am going to unusually ask the democratic… sorry, I am monitoring officer to update us a couple of things in the minutes. I will also do so, assuming we approve the minutes. A, gynnwch am ydych chi'n bwysig o fawr, os ydych chi'n bwysig, gynnwch, gallwch eu rhai gwynnol yn y pwyllffol? Mae hwn i, gyda fydd New jusquod â rhoi, тоa ddim yn ymddangos ar y bwrdd hyn rydych chi'n cael ei gweithio ar honno. Mae'r amser yn y gyfan diwrnod i'n hoffi. Mae'n sgwrs. Mae gweithio, mae'n amlwy o'i bethau, ac mae'n iddo blwyddyn ar y mawr. ddiolch yn ddarparu i gyffrattwch. Felly, dwi'n rhaid i ymhellwch y 5, ymhellwch yn ddweud bod ni'n gwybod i'n gwybod, ond rwy'n gweld i'r ddweud i'r defnyddio'r cyfnod, dyma'r cyfnod i'r CEDC. Gwyddo'n gwybod i'r ffael mwy o rhof, I might know someone at Basinbourne, so just to cover those grounds, Chair. I'm going to take it as read that without knowing the names of those involved since a number of them are councillors, they may possibly be known to all of us. I think that's a reasonable assumption, but no further declaration is necessary in that case, and I don't see the marching officer arguing with that. Good, thank you. So, can we take the approval of those minutes by affirmation with the understanding that certain members weren't here, and I have a proposal agreed. Thank you. At this point, I'd like to just ask the monitoring officer to update us on a couple of points if you like arising out of these minutes. We don't have matters arising, but hopefully I think to do that if you would. Thank you, Chair. Just very quickly for the committee today. On point five, with regard to the independent member for the Audit and Corporate Governance Committee, that has now progressed through the system, and Democratic Services did publish a fresh wording for our constitution to include the provision of the independent member, so thank you for your help on that process. And then with regard to point seven, the update on code of conduct complaints to keep this committee informed, my work on the report regarding a potential change to the procedure for handling a code of conduct complaint is ongoing with regard to consultations perhaps taking a bit longer than expected and I continue to do research. But when I feel like I do have a strong enough report to bring to this committee, I shall do so. And the final paragraph of the report, I can confirm that I've got a number of dates now fixed in the diary for me to attend with Kapalk, so I will raise my profile and reach out to parish councils who do tend to call me on an ad-hoc basis to discuss governance matters and more particularly potential code of conduct complaints. Thank you. Thank you. And perhaps I could briefly update us on item six, the 50th anniversary, which is of course next week on the 20th. Just to say that the event will be attended by Deputy Lieutenant for the Lord Lieutenant, I don't think any of our MPs have been able to accept. I know we've had refusal from doing a quite short position as with Daniel Zeichner, who we also invited. At the meeting last time, there was some very useful suggestions on democracy and diversity, which I hope you will hear in a minute, we have incorporated in the event. I have to admit that I hope joint values and respect will be promoted in everything that we do. I don't have any specific report on how we're going to do that in this event. There will be a display of sorts in the swansley run. We have a history of the district council, which has been put together by democratic services looking at the, and we will highlight certain events from the last 50 years because it's actually somebody has taken the effort to go through all of the minutes. It's Patrick who's done it. We'll go through all of the past minutes and summarise what we've decided and what has affected us over the years. I think we need to highlight certain points in that. At the behest of the chief executive, we also commissioned Anthony Carpin to write a short history from a differing perspective. There are some very interesting visuals resulting out of that that I thought should be displayed. Again, highlights will be circulated to all members. We said we would try to involve young people in this. I've invited those who came to the annual meeting from Campbell Youth Partnership. I haven't sought to widen it out to the whole district because it was difficult to know where to stop and start. But one particular event is that our youngest member of the council will be seeing us out at the end of the evening with a very party political piece, I think, from Gilman Sullen. So I don't think anyone will be offended by it. Sadly, the Labour Party has not mentioned, but that's not our fault that they didn't exist at the time. And then former leaders and indeed former chairs have been invited. I found it difficult to invite young potential future leaders simply that wasn't quite sure how we would set about identifying them. So I have to admit I've rather failed on that point, or the working group has. Local music groups are shrobona bacharia has kindly taken charge of that. I can't tell you quite what form it will take at this moment, and it will be followed, as I said, by Ariel Kahn, seen from Gilman Sullen. We have sought to invite certain groups who've received funding from the council in the past in relation to sporting events, and I again need to update you. The reason I wanted to update you was particularly because we agreed that we would refer this to this committee, but also because I'm going to ask members of this committee to act as sort of informal hosts as well. So I will circulate to you, or ask Democratic Service, circulate to you those who have accepted to come, I believe 120 now. Peter Sanford advice to you will be hosting the Deputy Lieutenant. Before the event we will be planting a tree to commemorate this, and the Deputy Lieutenant will do that together with one of our apprentices. Again at this stage I can't tell you which of the apprentices, but Chief Executive was very keen that we should involve the younger generation within the council. I think that's all I can usefully tell you except to say I will be circulating a little bit more information to members of this committee as individuals. No specific role, but if you feel able to join us in hosting the event, that would be much appreciated. Shall we then move on to the agenda item 4? Update on code of contact complaints. I'm going to ask John Murphy to introduce this item please. Thank you Chair. It's a very short report for members. It's just a quick standard update on ongoing matters, and then I've put on the end quick annual summary which I'll speak to in a moment. In short though, the existing complaints that I've received have been progressing, albeit I will be honest with the committee, somewhat slower over this December, January, February period, a mixture of Christmas, one party to a conjoined complaint, requiring hospital attention, slowed that matter down. One of my independent persons took her very well deserved but at the season extended holiday, but they've reported back and I'm working with them on another matter. But things have progressed. To refer you to the annual summary, I just thought it would be useful. I joined South Cambridgeshire District Council as your monitoring officer in May last year, so these figures show anything that has started since I've arrived. In total, I recorded 12 for which pertain to South Cambridgeshire members. Eight arose from parish councils. As an observation in my previous authority which had a similar number of parish councils, these numbers are lower than what I previously worked on. So I take that as there is a good standard of behaviour in the South Cambridgeshire area. The other figures, the zeros if you may, I'm not alarmed by them because standards complaints, they are what they are and if a matter has merit it will progress. But just to simplify those figures, in short, the 12 that came in, I either looked at them and rejected them on the basis of the facts presented or I consulted with the independent person, one of the two established and experienced independent persons that we have, and the outcome was that they were not deemed sufficient to progress. So I don't read anything into it in terms of a wider trend, it just on the facts as presented, none of the 12 were deemed sufficient to progress, which is a good thing. It shows evidence of a good atmosphere, a standard of behaviour from members. Beyond that chair, I don't think I've got anything to add at the stage, if anyone has any questions. Thank you. Thank you chair, and thank you Mr Murphy for your report. In the past, one of the feedback that I've had from people who've raised complaints is that we just let it slide and the council doesn't actually do a lot about complaints that are, and they feel that they've been had done. I don't know what we can do about that, I don't know what the threshold is, but looking at these figures again and you go, yeah, no one. And that's why sometimes people don't even bother to complain and just sort of abuse us online. Chair, good question. And I think I share a lot of what, share the sentiment a lot of what you say there. But as the Bonding Officer, all I can say is I have to follow the procedure and the cutting to the chase, the sanctions that exist are set by statute. So I can only deal with complaints as the procedure is set out and even those that have merit, the sanctions are something which I can't invent or make up or I can't extend to bring proportionality or severity to them. All I can say is I do get a lot of people contact me this week I've had a clerk from a parish council, no names of course, ring me to explain that they are very unhappy with the conduct of a councillor that they work with. And I have given them good council, I have explained that I have talked to them and I've tried to explain that the pros and cons and the risk to them and potential outcomes. I've tried to make them fully informed and I've finished the conversation by emphasising that they've got my details, we've spoken, I am here, talk to me. So I try to be as available and encouraging and as informative as I can to anyone who wishes to make complaints but ultimately people take a view. All I can say is if I receive them I progress them according to procedure. Any other questions? I think then that brings us to the end of this meeting and in closing it I'd just like to remind us that the next meeting will be on 9th of July, so 10 o'clock. So with that I close this meeting at 10.20am. Thank you by the way for coming in August way.