Issue - meetings

Further to Minute 9 of the meeting held on 13^th October 2020, the Committee gave further consideration to a proposed amendment to the Committee’s report submitted to the Council meeting on 9^th September 2020 and which had been referred by the Council to the Committee for consideration.  The Committee was advised that, further to the submitted report, no suggested names for inclusion in the amendment had been received from political groups in response to correspondence forwarded.

A Member noted that the Committee’s report considering the Council’s actions related to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals had been under consideration for several months prior to the submission of the report to the Council and that the issues raised in the amendment had not been raised in that time.

RESOLVED that the inclusion of the Amendment to the report be not agreed or commended to Council.

Note: The Chair requested that the minutes record that Councillors Byrne and Hamblett were not present in the meeting at the time the vote was taken.

The Committee was advised that the Council, at the meeting held on 9^th September 2020, had received a report of the Overview and Scrutiny Board and the Health Scrutiny Committee in respect of a Council Motion related to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.  On consideration of that report an amendment, as detailed in a submitted report, had been moved and seconded.  The Council had determined that the amendment be referred to the Overview and Scrutiny Board and the Health Scrutiny Committee for their consideration in the first instance.

It was noted that the amendment had been introduced by the Liberal Democrat Group and it might be the case that other political groups might wish to add to the list of bodies referenced in the amendment.

RESOLVED – that the amendment be circulated to the other political groups on the Council, and to other groups as might be appropriate, to consider any additions to the organisations listed within the amendment.