By Richard Whitehouse Cornwall Council has been criticised for a lack of transparency over the appointment of a new finance boss who had previously been censured for professional misconduct. Tracie…
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The appointment of the Chief Financial Officer (known as the Section 151 Officer) is a statutory officer position and is bound by a number of statutory and regulatory requirements, one of which is that the law stipulates that the appointment must be approved by full council.
A typical example why so many people are so utterly exasperated by Cornwall Councils modus operandi.