Councillor Fleming proposed and Councillor Firth seconded that the Monitoring Officer’s Annual Report be endorsed.

The purpose of the Monitoring Officer’s report was to provide an overview of the work of the Monitoring Officer, the work of the Standards committee and the general governance arrangements within the Council in the past year.  The report summarised how the duties of the Monitoring Officer had been discharged during 2012 in accordance with the Council’s Constitution and legislative requirements.

Resolved: That the Monitoring Officer’s Annual Report be endorsed.