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Declarations of personal and prejudicial interests Members are invited to declare at this stage of the meeting, any relevant financial or other interest in the items on this agenda. Minutes: None declared. |
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Procedural motion Minutes: Councillor Moloney moved a procedural motion.
RESOLVED:
that the Leader or a representative of each political group be invited to speak for up to three minutes each and at the conclusion of the contributions a vote shall be taken on the motion submitted and any amendments submitted. |
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Motion - School crossing service PDF 35 KB To consider the motion set out in the requisition submitted by Councillors Allie, Castle, Cheese, Cummins, Hashmi, Hunter, and Lorber for an Extraordinary meeting (see attached). Minutes: Upon receiving a requisition from five members of the Council, the Mayor had called the Extraordinary Council meeting to consider the motion submitted on the school crossing service.
In moving the motion, Councillor Lorber stated that he had wanted overview and scrutiny to consider the decisions of the Executive because he was not sure how many councillors understood what had been agreed. He felt it was confusing and, in describing the outcome, asked what it was thought the response would be when a school crossing patrol was removed. He believed there to be four vacancies at the present time but was unsure when the new scheme was due to become operational. Councillor Lorber felt it would have been better if he had been allowed to call-in the decisions so that non-Executive members could properly discuss the issues in the way it was envisaged when overview and scrutiny was introduced. He felt the overview and scrutiny process was not used properly in Brent and if it had been on this occasion it would have come up with a better result than the Executive had.
Councillor HB Patel stressed the importance of the school crossing service in looking after young children who did not have much road sense. He submitted that the schools would not support the funding of the service and so it was important that the Council did. He supported the view that the proposals should have been subject to greater scrutiny and expressed support for the motion before the meeting.
Councillor J Moher stated that he would have been happy to discuss the proposals at overview and scrutiny but the terms of the request had not passed the protocol for calling-in decisions. He reminded the meeting that the views of those that had responded to the consultation and from fellow councillors had resulted in the proposals being changed, but not abandoned. Each location had been looked at and where it was clear that road safety improvements meant there was no longer a need for a crossing patrol it would be withdrawn. This would also help with the current recruitment difficulties experienced. Schools were being asked if they would share in the provision of patrols and these discussions were continuing at a senior level. Councillor Moher stated that the motion pretended that the Council had not listened to the views of local people when in fact it had and for that reason he opposed it.
The motion was put to the vote and declared LOST. |