Council Appoint Independent Investigator Over Out of Court Payout

Labour Councillors walked out of a Special Town Council Meeting on 20th December 2018. The press and public were recommended to be excluded from the main business to be discussed, but all the councillors decided to hold the meeting in public. The meeting was held to appoint an independent investigator to probe into the circumstances which lead to the Town Council making an out-of-court settlement of £28,000 to a former contractor who provided youth services and whose contract was scrapped in 2015. The decision to appoint an independent investigator was made in principle at the 8th October meeting, in which the three Labour councillors attending (Slough, Swain, and Welsh) all voted for the motion. 41 minutes into the recording of this week's meeting, and before a vote was taken on the resolution below, the four Labour councillors in attendance (Kennedy, Welch, Slough, and Dixon-Wilkinson) walked out, after saying they were unhappy with the resolutions. Cllr Kennedy, for