Issue - meetings

The material relevant to this item is the report on pages 29 to 32 of the agenda considered by the Cabinet at its meeting on Tuesday 2 October 2018.

RECOMMENDATION TO THE COUNCIL

That authority be delegated to the Deputy Leader to vote in accordance with Cabinet’s decision in relation to the Alteration Ballot.

[Note Immediately prior to the start of this item Mr A Dignum (Leader of the Council and Cabinet Member for Growth and Place) and Mrs J Kilby (Cabinet Member for Housing Services) withdrew from their places on the dais and sat in the public seating area, in accordance with their respective declarations of having a prejudicial interest as recorded in minute 35 above, and they played no part in the discussion of and decision on this matter]

The Council considered the recommendation made to it by the Cabinet at its meeting on Tuesday 2 October 2018, as set out in the Cabinet report (pages 29 to 32 of the Cabinet agenda).  

At the invitation of the Vice-Chairman, Mrs E Lintill (Deputy Leader of the Council and Cabinet Member for Community Services) informed the Council that there was an amendment to the Cabinet’s recommendation as set out in the agenda, namely that after the final word ‘Ballot’ and before the ensuing full stop the following words were now inserted: ‘if the request to hold the Ballot is formally confirmed by the BID’, so that the full text of the recommendation, as amended, now read:

‘That authority be delegated to the Deputy Leader to vote in accordance with Cabinet’s decision in relation to the Alteration Ballot if the request to hold the Ballot is formally confirmed by the BID.’

Mrs Lintill formally moved the Cabinet’s recommendation and this was seconded by Mrs S Taylor (Cabinet Member for Planning Services).

Mrs Lintill presented the Cabinet’s recommendation by summarising sections 3, 4 and 5 of the report; the purpose was to delegate authority to Mrs Lintill to vote on behalf of CDC as a BID levy payer because Mr A Dignum (Leader of the Council) could not do so as he was a member of the BID board. 

Decision

On a show of hands the members voted in favour of the Cabinet’s recommendation with no votes against and no abstentions. 

RESOLVED

That authority be delegated to the Deputy Leader to vote in accordance with Cabinet’s decision in relation to the Alteration Ballot if the request to hold the Ballot is formally confirmed by the BID.

[Note At the end of this item Mr Dignum and Mrs Kilby returned to their places on the dais for the remainder of this meeting]