Issue - meetings

Adoption of New Code of Conduct for Members

Recommended:

That the Council adopt the Model Code of Conduct attached as APPENDIX 1, (version of May 2021) together with the amendment resolved at the Joint Standards Committee on 8 February 2022 to include ‘or well-being’ in Appendix B, paragraph 9 (a) of the code and that the code take effect by 1 November 2022 unless brought into effect prior by the Monitoring Officer depending on when Essex County Council bring into effect the New Code of Conduct.

Councillor M G Bassenger, Chairman of the Joint Standards Committee presented the following recommendation coming forward from the last meeting of the Joint Standards Committee and set out on the Council agenda. 

Adoption of New Code of Conduct for Members

Councillor Bassenger moved the recommendation, this were duly seconded and agreed.  Councillor C Morris asked that his dissent in respect of this be noted.

RESOLVED that the Model Code of Conduct attached as Appendix 1 to the Council agenda, (version of May 2021) together with the amendment resolved at the Joint Standards Committee on 8 February 2022 to include ‘or well-being’ in Appendix B, paragraph 9 (a) of the code be adopted and that the code take effect by 1 November 2022 unless brought into effect prior by the Monitoring Officer depending on when Essex County Council bring into effect the New Code of Conduct.