Agenda item
REPORT OF THE INDEPENDENT REMUNERATION PANEL
To consider the recommendations of the Independent Remuneration Panel with regard to the proposed Scheme of Member’s Allowances for the Central Bedfordshire Shadow Council for the year commencing 1 April 2008.
(Report of the Independent Remuneration Panel attached - pages 6.1 to 6.10)
Minutes:
The Council was invited to consider the recommendations of the Independent Remuneration Panel with regard to the proposed Scheme of Members’ Allowances for the Central Bedfordshire Shadow Council for the year commencing 1 April 2008. To assist with the conduct of this item of business, Members were provided with a summary of the Scheme of Members’ Allowances for 2008/09 for the authorities forming Central Bedfordshire Council.
Following the presentation of the report of the Independent Remuneration Panel by the Portfolio Holder for Corporate Resources, it was moved and seconded:-
“that the Shadow Council adopts a Scheme of Members’ Allowances for the year commencing 1 April 2008, in accordance with the recommendations made by the Independent Remuneration Panel, as set out in paragraph 13 in Appendix “A” to their report, subject to:-
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The rates specified for Travelling and Subsistence Allowances, within Schedule 3 to the Scheme (which are fixed at the same level as the rates prescribed by the National Joint Council for Local Government staff), being amended during the year ending 31 March 2009 in line with any change recommended by the National Joint Council, for the payment of local government staff;
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Payment of all Allowances within the approved Scheme being backdated to 1 April 2008.”
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As an amendment to the Motion, it was moved and duly seconded:-
“that the rate stated in Schedule 4 of the Members’ Allowances Scheme in respect of Dependents’ Carers’ Allowance where care is required for children or is of a non-specialist nature for dependent relatives be amended to read “£7.20 per hour”.
Upon being put to the vote, the amendment was lost.
As a further amendment to the Motion, it was moved and duly seconded:-
“that the rate payable in respect of Dependents’ Carers’ Allowance where care is required for children and is of a non-specialist nature for dependent relatives be set at the rate fixed by the Government as the national minimum wage, currently £5.52 per hour, and amended subsequently in line with any change made to that rate.”
Upon being put to the vote, the amendment was carried.
As a further amendment to the Motion, it was moved and duly seconded:-
“that the top rate of car mileage allowance, i.e. 58.7p for a car or motorcycle exceeding 1199cc, as indicated in Schedule 3 of the report of the Independent Remuneration Panel, be deleted.”
Upon being put to the vote, the amendment was lost.
RESOLVED
that the Shadow Council adopts a Scheme of Members’ Allowances for the year commencing 1 April 2008, in accordance with the recommendations made by the Independent Remuneration Panel, as set out in paragraph 13 and Appendix “A” to their report, subject to:-
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the rates specified for Travelling and Subsistence Allowances, within Schedule 3 to the Scheme (which are fixed at the same level as the rates prescribed by the National Joint Council for local government staff), being amended during the year ending 31 March 2009 in line with any change recommended by the National Joint Council, for the payment of local government staff;
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the rate payable for Dependents’ Carers’ Allowance where care is required for children or is of a non-specialist nature for dependent relatives be set at the rate fixed by the Government as the national minimum wage, currently £5.52 per hour, and amended in line with any change made to that rate; and
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the payment of all allowances within the approved Scheme being backdated to 1 April 2008.
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