Issue - meetings

Report number CEX379 by the Chief Executive.                      (Enclosure)

DECISION:

1.                To not appoint a new District Council representative to the South Lincolnshire Blind Society at the present time.

2.                To request that representatives from the South Lincolnshire Blind Society be asked to attend a meeting of the District Council’s Scrutiny Committee.

The Council had before them report number CEX379 by the Chief Executive. The report had been written in response to a letter received from South Lincolnshire Blind Society requesting the replacement of the District Council’s representative on the body.

In accordance with Council Procedure rule 9, as the meeting was nearing being in progress for three hours, the majority of members present voted for the meeting to continue.

Members heard various items of correspondence relating to the body and the appointment.

It was proposed and seconded that Councillor Ray Wootten be appointed as the District Council’s representative on the South Lincolnshire Blind Society. Members discussed the merits of making a new appointment.

An amendment was proposed, that no appointment should be made by the District Council pending a recommendation of the Scrutiny Committee, who should consider points raised in the correspondence that was read at the meeting. This was seconded and voted upon. The vote was carried and the amendment became a substantive motion. The substantive motion was put to the vote and was carried.