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Originally Posted by claytonender
The Leader has put pressure on council officials to change the meeting to the date and time he wanted. The latest date that the AGM of the Council had to be held (as per the constitution of HBC, which state that the AGM must be held no later than 21 days after the election) was Thursday 27 May.
......If officers have acted outside the constitution the facts can be reported to the Monitoring Officer, who has a duty under Section 5A of the 1989 Local Government and Housing Act to investigate contraventions of the council's rules and codes of practice. However, no matter how blatant the contravention is, there is no guarantee that the Monitoring Officer will find that there has been any wrongdoing.
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Could you possibly say exactly what pressure was applied by Britcliffe on to the council officials? I don't think he has the power to give 'em P45's, so it would be interesting to know what he did in order to get this meeting rearranged to the time and date.
Other than that, how much will it cost the ratepayers of Hyndburn for this nonsense?