On Monday night around 50 residents attended the JPC meeting to listen to the debate on the complaint about the behaviour of certain councillors in respect of the curtain shop. During the meeting the parish clerk read out a statement which she first said was on behalf of the Council but, when challenged, said it was a personal statement on behalf of a Councillor.
The Chairman, Cllr L Goodman, then held a vote on the motion to continue the debate in a private session from which the residents would be excluded. The motion to exclude the residents was passed, with the two councillors (Cllr C Goodman and Cllr C Milsom) who were involved in the incident voting for secrecy. If the councillors involved had not been been allowed to vote by the Chairman, the motion would have been lost and the discussion would have continued in public.
Most of the residents left in disgust having expected that such an important issue would be debated in public. It has been reported to Henley NEWS On-line that 2 complaints have so far been sent to the Straford District Council's Monitoring Officer for consideration by the Standards and Ethics Committee. One of these complaints is reproduced below.
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