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Report of the Independent Remuneration Panel on the Review of Members' Allowances

 

 

Meeting: 25/11/2013 - City Council (Item 62)

62 MEMBERS' ALLOWANCE SCHEME: REPORT OF THE INDEPENDENT REMUNERATION PANEL pdf icon PDF 41 KB

The Chief Executive will submit a report on the Members’ Allowance Scheme following a review of the scheme by the Independent Remuneration Panel. 

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Minutes:

The City Council considered the report of the Interim Director for Corporate Services together with the report and recommendations of the Independent Remuneration Panel on the Members’ Allowance Scheme.  

 

Councillor Peter Smith (Deputy Leader) proposed the Members’ Allowance Scheme as recommended by the panel which made only one change to the existing scheme to bring the allowances for the Lord Mayor and Deputy Lord Mayor into the scheme.

 

He also thanked members of the Independent Remuneration Panel and officers (Judith Shore (Democratic and Members’ Services Manager) and Amelia Boulter (Democratic Support Officer)) for their work.

 

The proposal was seconded by Councillor Bowyer who referred to an error in paragraph 7.11 of the panel’s report which stated that councillors had not received any increases to their allowances since 2009.  Councillors had received an increase from 1 April this year, in line with the local government’s pay award of one per cent.   

 

Agreed the Members Allowance Scheme as recommended by the Independent Remuneration Panel (see Appendix B of the report), to –

 

(1)

retain the existing level of the Basic Allowance and Special Responsibility Allowances subject to annual increase in line with the percentage increase of the local government pay award;

 

(2)

retain the existing level of allowances for the Lord Mayor and the Deputy Lord Mayor and include the allowances within the Members’ Allowance Scheme, subject to annual increase in line with the percentage increase of the local government pay award;

 

(3)

 

retain the existing travelling and subsistence arrangements and amend in line with any changes negotiated to the ‘Plymouth Book’;

 

(4)

 

retain all other arrangements (see the report of the Independent Remuneration Panel).