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The Council Meeting 22nd September 2009 was the first to be held at the new time of 10:30am. The meeting was over in less than two hours and the public gallery was full. However it was clear that many in the gallery were labour party members and labour councillors' partners. The agenda consisted of 125 pages compared with the 259 pages of the epic meeting on the 30th of June,(the July agenda had 150 pages). See more details below.
Council Meeting Lengths
Date |
Agenda length, pages |
No of Items on Agenda |
Notes |
22nd Sept |
125 |
22 |
First Meeting at 10:30am, meeting finished in less than 2 hours. |
28th July |
150 |
19 |
Meetings changed to 10:30 am with usual 23 coalition members voting in favour of the change, all the opposition members present voting against. This meeting and all previous meetings for many years held at 5pm |
30th June |
259 |
30 |
This was the exceptionally long meeting described by the labour whip as " the straw that broke the camels back". However the agenda was by far the longest for many months, maybe ever, with a number of long financial reports. Members refreshments after meetings were discontinued with all members agreeing a recommendation by the leader. This hospitality had only been accepted by labour members since May 2008 election |
14th May |
63 |
17 |
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31st May |
87 |
23 |
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3rd Mar |
170 |
23 |
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On our blog topic " Is This The Last Nail in the Coffin of Democracy! " a contributor has said
"It is my opinion that the change of time is to restrict opposition attendence. The Labour/Plaid coalition have come close to losing a vote sometimes, when one of theirs is otherwise engaged (pulling pints at Glastonbury is a recent example of Plaid Councillor Fiona Cross)
Plaid continue to vote with Labour in every vote.
Plaid are laughed at by the Labour group & come the next election, will be disposed of. They will have cooked their goose with the general public because of their turncoat behaviour.
I voted for Plaid Cllr Rees BECAUSE he knocked my door & told me we needed to get the Labour group out of power. He then manouvers Plaid into receiving paid jobs for supporting Labour. DISGRACEFUL.....it has & will not be forgotten. EVER"
A reply is invited from Plaid Leader Jeff Rees.
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