Issue - meetings

Report of the Cabinet Member Corporate Services

The Cabinet Member Corporate Services introduced the report on the Council Diary September 2014 to August 2015. He proposed two amendments.

i)                    that the Council meeting on 6 October 2014 should be moved to 13 October 2014 in order to avoid the party conference dates.

ii)                  that the Council Tax Setting meeting planned for Friday 27 February 2015 should start at 6 p.m. rather than 2:30 p.m. to accommodate Members who work.

A Member felt strongly that the start time of the Council meeting had always been a 2.30 start and should remain so. Another Member disagreed and felt that it was important that meeting times were set to encourage more young people to stand for council. A Member suggested that the 6 p.m. start should be reviewed if it turned out there was additional business at the tax setting meeting. This was agreed to be a good way forward.

Upon a vote it was

Resolved that the draft Council diary of meetings for September 2014 to August 2015 be approved subject to the above amendments.

Voting: this was agreed with one abstention