Anger after council leader fails to attend Kent Airport meeting
02.07.09
The leader of Kent County Council, Paul Carter, could be reported to the authority’s watchdog on standards after failing to show at a meeting about Kent International Airport (Manston), the Thanet Times reports. Councillor Carter was due to attend last Friday’s meeting of the Kent International Airport’s Consultative Committee. but pulled out at the last minute and did not send a replacement.
The committee, which includes airport management and representatives of the surrounding towns and villages, had rearranged its meeting especially to have Councillor Carter attend. Committee chairman Paul Twyman told the newspaper: ‘We were very keen to have him talk to us and deliberately rescheduled the meeting to accommodate him. I am not at all pleased at this development. What I suggest we do is that we raise the matter with the Standards Committee at Kent County Council as I find it inappropriate and actually quite offensive as we have gone to all this trouble to arrange this meeting then we suddenly have the man pull out.’
The group voted to report the matter to the standards committee, which looks into complaints against councillors and assesses whether they have breached the code of conduct.
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