Report No. 196/2017 was received from the Monitoring Officer, the purpose of which was to obtain approval for extending the end date of the appointment of Mr Gordon Grimes and Mr Ian Shatford as Independent Persons to 1 May 2019.

Mrs Mogg, Director for Resources and Monitoring Officer, gave a brief introduction to the report highlighting that the appointment of at least one independent person was a statutory requirement under the Localism Act 2011 and that it had been practice to appoint two independent persons at Rutland in order to maintain resilience in this area. 

Mr Stewart moved the recommendations and Mr Mathias seconded the recommendations.

During debate of the recommendations, points raised included:

1. Mr Gale requested clarification as to whether there had been a recent recruitment exercise.  Mrs Mogg confirmed that historically it had been difficult to recruit to these appointments and that the current arrangements were working well.  It seemed appropriate to extend the existing appointments until the end of the current council and the Conduct Committee may want to consider the future recruitment of Independent Persons nearer to that time.

RESOLVED

To APPROVE the extension of Mr Gordon Grimes’ and Mr Ian Shatford’s appointments as Independent Persons to 1 May 2018.