A TOWN councillor has insisted that he has been wrongly excluded from meetings. Cllr Peter Yeo has been forced from online meetings of Shaftesbury Town Council on several occasions since town council meetings switched to online. He claims the town council has used the wrong standing orders to exclude him – designed for unruly members of the public, rather than councillors. The town council has insisted that the legislation it is using is correct and legal. Cllr Yeo told the March online meeting of the town council that there is no legislation which can exclude him, or other councillors, from digital meetings of the council.
Shaftesbury Town Hall and Cllr Karen Tippins and Cllr Peter Yeo Two Shaftesbury town councillors have been told their actions have brought the council into disrepute. Peter Yeo and Karen Tippins have been ordered to make a full apology at the next town council meeting and attend an approved code of conduct course. A Dorset Council hearing heard that Cllr Peter Yeo had been excluded from meetings five times in the past year after trying to question the council’s spending. He was also found to have made an obscene gesture to a committee chairman and repeatedly mouthed a rude word after his microphone was turned off at one online meeting.
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Shaftesbury Town Hall and Cllr Karen Tippins and Cllr Peter Yeo TWO Dorset town councillors who are claimed to have insulted colleagues will face a code of conduct hearing this week. Both Cllr Peter Yeo and Cllr Karen Tippins will face claims on Friday that they breached the councillors code of conduct at Shaftesbury Town Council. At a meetings last year Cllr Tippins described fellow councillor Michael Welch as ‘an idiot’ refusing to retract the remark. Shortly after she describes him as ‘thick’. In response to the jibe Cllr Yeo says “she’s got a point,” although he denies this was referring to the remark Cllr Tippins had just made.
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