Issue - meetings

The Director of Legal and Democratic Services introduced a report, which had been circulated in advance of the meeting, seeking approval for proposed amendments to the Council Procedure Rules for inclusion in the Constitution.

It was explained that the report had been proposed and seconded by Councillors B Lewis and S Spencer at the previous meeting of Council so Members were invited to debate the report.

An amendment was moved by Councillor Gillott and duly seconded in the following terms:

To add the words “except for the proposals contained in paragraphs 9.2 and 11.1 to extend the deadline for submitting questions to 10 working days which should remain instead at 12 noon on the Friday before the Council meeting” to the end of the recommendation

Following debate, the amendment to the motion was duly voted on and declared to be LOST.

There followed a debate on the original motion moved at the previous meeting by Councillor B Lewis that had been duly seconded it was

RESOLVED to:

Approve the Council Procedure Rules, as set out in Appendix 2 to the report, for inclusion in the Constitution.