Agenda item

Members' Allowances: Report of the Independent Remuneration Panel

To approve, with or without amendment, the recommendations in the report of the Executive Director, Resources published with this agenda setting out the recommendations from the Independent Remuneration Panel on the Members’ Allowances Scheme.

 

 

Minutes:

11.1

RESOLVED: On the motion of Councillor Terry Fox, formally seconded by Councillor Julie Grocutt, that the City Council:-

 

 

 

(a) notes the report of the Independent Remuneration Panel and its recommendations, as set out in the report of the Executive Director, Resources, published with the agenda for this meeting;

 

 

 

(b) approves the removal of the Special Responsibility Allowance (SRA) for Local Area Partnership Chairs and the addition of an SRA for Local Area Committee Chairs atBand C (£5,688.55 per annum) in the Schedule of Special Responsibility Allowances in the Members’ Allowances Scheme as recommended by the Independent Remuneration Panel (IRP);

 

 

 

(c) notes that the Members’ Allowances Scheme approved by Council at its Special (Budget) Meeting on 3 March 2021 rolled forward the existing scheme which was approved in 2017/18; and

 

 

 

(d) notes that, following the outcome of the Sheffield City Council Governance Referendum, further work will be carried out by the IRP to consider changes to the Members’ Allowances Scheme, including a review of the Special Responsibility Allowance for Local Area Committee Chairs and that the outcome of this work will be submitted to a future meeting of Council for consideration.

 

 

 

 

 

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