Agenda item

To receive a report containing the recommendations of the Independent Remuneration Panel which undertook a review of Rushmoor’s Members Allowances Scheme in April 2018 (copy attached - Annex 2).

It was MOVED by Cllr J.E. Woolley and SECONDED by Cllr J.H. Marsh – That the proposals set out in the Independent Remuneration Panel’s Sixth Report be adopted.

During discussion, it was MOVED by Cllr Keith Dibble and SECONDED by Cllr A.J. Halstead – That the implementation of the proposals set out in the Report be deferred until June, 2019 to allow the new governance structure arrangements to be reviewed.  

On a Recorded Vote there voted FOR: Cllrs T.D. Bridgeman, Sophia Choudhary, A.K. Choudhary, Keith Dibble, Sue Dibble, Jennifer Evans, C.P. Grattan, A.J. Halstead, Nadia Martin and M.J. Roberts (10); AGAINST: Cllrs Diane Bedford, D.M.T. Bell, J.B. Canty, M.S. Choudhary, D.E. Clifford, R.M. Cooper, Liz Corps, P.I.C. Crerar, Veronica Graham-Green, Barbara Hurst, G.B. Lyon, Mara Makunura, J.H. Marsh, Marina Munro, K.H. Muschamp, A.R. Newell, M.L. Sheehan, M.D. Smith, P.G. Taylor, M.J. Tennant, B.A. Thomas, Jacqui Vosper and J.E. Woolley (23); and ABSTAINED: Cllr R.L.G. Dibbs and the Mayor (Cllr. S.J. Masterson) (2) and the Amendment was DECLARED LOST.

Following further discussion, the recommendations of the Independent Remuneration Panel were put to the meeting.  There voted FOR: 22; AGAINST: 9 and the Recommendations were DECLARED CARRIED.