Issue - meetings

Councillor Brett moved and Councillor Taylor seconded a proposal to change the order of business on the agenda under paragraph 2.2 (page 4-5) of the Council’s procedure rules to enable the meeting to take the following as the next items of business:

·              Item 14: Annual Public Health Report

·              Item 17.1: Motion in the name of Councillor Hamilton on reductions in the emergency services

The change in order of the agenda was agreed without a vote.

Please note the minutes reflect the order in which the items were dealt with at the meeting.

Councillor Taylor moved and Councillor Georgiou seconded a proposal to change the order of business on the agenda under paragraph 2.2 (page 4-5) of the Council’s procedure rules to enable the meeting to take the following as the next items of business:

·              Item 12.1: Motion in the name of Councillor Charalambous on Olympic & Paralympic Games

·              Item 12.4: Motion in the name of Councillor Hamilton on funding for North London Rape Crisis Centre and police numbers

·              Item 12.3: Motion in name of Councillor Neville on Sunday parking charges in Enfield Town.

·              Item 12.6: Motion in name of Councillor Bond on impact of EU budget on Enfield residents.

·              Item 12.5: Motion in name of Councillor McGowan on impact of reduction in local authority funding.

·              Item 12.7: Motion in name of Councillor Taylor on Council Tax and the removal of damping mechanism.

·              Item 12.2: Motion in name of Councillor Lavender on Council Tax freeze.

Whilst this was agreed without a vote, the Leader of the Opposition expressed concern about the management of the Council agenda in this way. He pointed out that the submission of an urgent Opposition question on Sunday parking charges had been rejected by the Mayor, on the basis that there would be opportunities to raise the issue elsewhere on the agenda.  These options had included Supplementary Council Questions as well as Motion 12.3 but it was felt the change in order of agenda would now prevent use of these, given the remaining time available at the meeting.

Please note the minutes reflect the order in which the items were dealt with at the meeting.

Councillor Brett moved and Councillor Constantindes seconded a proposal to change the order of business on the agenda under paragraph 2.2 (page 4-5) of the Council’s procedure rules to enable the meeting to take the following as the next items of business:

·              Item 20.3: Motion in the name of Councillor Hamilton (Police numbers within the borough)

This was agreed with the following result:

For: 30

Against: 25

Abstentions: 0

Please note the minutes reflect the order in which the items were dealt with at the meeting.