Decision details

Council AGREED:

(1)        Pending the next review of South Cambridgeshire District Council’s Members’ Allowance Scheme, that any changes to current Special Responsibility Allowance payments deemed necessary to reflect changes in Member roles and responsibilities should be made by a re-allocation of current Special Responsibility Allowance payments without increasing the Council’s overall Special Responsibility Allowance cost envelope.

(2)        That the Members’ Basic Allowance be increased by the equivalent percentage amount that the Council agrees to apply to the pay rates of Council staff, effective from 1 April 2016, and that thereafter the Basic Allowance is increased annually on the same indexed basis pending the next review of the Members ’Allowance Scheme.

(3)        That where a Councillor in receipt of the allowance fails to attend 50% of the meetings for which that allowance is paid in any six-month period, that Councillor be invited to repay an appropriate sum of the allowance received during that period.

(4)        That there should be no increase to the Independent Person’s or their Deputy’s annual allowance payment, given that the additional commitment involved is intrinsically ad hocand may never be performed during their period of office.