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Councillor King, Portfolio Holder for Business and Resources, proposed that the recommendations contained in draft minute 536 of the Cabinet meeting of 27 January 2021 together with the recommendations contained in the reports entitled Supplementary Budget report and Precept and Council Tax Levels 2021/22 be approved and adopted.
Main amendments
Councillor Buston moved a main amendment as follows:-
That the recommendations contained in draft minute 536 of the Cabinet meeting of 27 January 2021 and the recommendations contained in the reports entitled Supplementary Budget report and Precept and Council Tax Levels 2021/22 be approved and adopted by Council, subject to the following supplementary note applied to Appendix G, Community, Bereavement Services:
That this Council recognises increasing Bereavement Services costs by 3x the current rate of inflation during a pandemic is unreasonable and does not reflect well on the Council or its Members. Therefore the 2.7% across the board increase in Cemetery and Crematorium is abandoned for the financial year (21/22). That the anticipated £39,000 revenue loss from Appendix G – General Fund Budgets, Bereavement Services is balanced by Use of Reserves for FY 21/22.
Councillor King indicated that the main amendment was not accepted.
Councillor Barber moved a main amendment as follows:-
That the recommendations contained in draft minute 536 of the Cabinet meeting of 27 January 2021 and the recommendations contained in the reports entitled Supplementary Budget report and Precept and Council Tax Levels 2021/22 be approved and adopted by Council, subject to the following change to Appendix I:
That Item 7 of Appendix I – Allocation of New Homes Bonus; Support to Tendring Colchester Borders and Local Plan is reduced from £500,000 to a total of £450,000. A new Item 7A is added as follows:
7A Support for full Feasibility Study to construct a workable proposal for a revised allocation at Middlewick enabling the creation of a Country Park between Abbot’s Road and Birch Brook Cost: £50,000
Councillor King indicated that the main amendment was not accepted.
Councillor Willetts moved a main amendment as follows:-
That the recommendations contained in draft minute 536 of the Cabinet meeting of 27 January 2021 and the recommendations contained in the reports entitled Supplementary Budget report and Precept and Council Tax Levels 2021/22 be approved and adopted by Council, subject to the following amendment by appending of words:
“and Council, noting that during the summer of 2020 the fish in Lexden Lake died, it was enveloped by invasive weed and it emitted a foul odour which constituted a public nuisance to surrounding dwellings, allocates in this budget £97,000 to facilitate proper remedial work to the lake. Furthermore that corresponding adjustments are made to reserves to ensure a balanced budget, or by such other virements that Cabinet shall take to balance the budget.”
Councillor King indicated that the main amendment was not accepted.
Voting
On being put to the vote the main amendment proposed by Councillor Buston was lost (TWENTY THREE voted FOR, TWENTY FIVE voted AGAINST, TWO ABSTAINED from voting).
Further to the provisions of Council Procedure 15(3) a named vote was taken and the voting was as follows:-
FOR: Councillors Arnold, Barber, Bentley, Buston, Chapman, Chillingworth, Crow, Dundas, Elliott, Ellis, Goacher, Hayter, Hazell, Jarvis, Jowers, Lissimore, Loveland, Luxford Vaughan, F. Maclean, J. Maclean, Moore, Willetts and Wood.
AGAINST: Councillors Barlow, Barton, Bourne, Chuah, Coleman, Cope, Cory, Fox, Goss, Harris, Higgins, Hogg, King, Liddy, Lilley, McCarthy, B. Oxford, G. Oxford, P. Oxford, Pearson, Scordis, Scott-Boutell, Warnes, Whitehead and J. Young.
ABSTAINED: Councillors Davidson (The Mayor) and T. Young (The Deputy Mayor)
Councillor Barber proposed an alteration to his main amendment to add the words “and/or Nature Reserve” after the words “creation of a Country Park”. On being put to the vote this was agreed and the main amendment was deemed altered accordingly (TWENTY THREE voted FOR, TWENTY TWO voted AGAINST and FIVE ABSTANED from voting).
Further to the provisions of Council Procedure 15(3) a named vote was taken and the voting was as follows:-
FOR: Councillors Arnold, Barber, Bentley, Buston, Chapman, Chillingworth, Crow, Dundas, Elliott, Ellis, Goacher, Hayter, Hazell, Jarvis, Jowers, Loveland, Lissimore, Luxford Vaughan, F. Maclean, J. Maclean, Moore, Willetts and Wood.
AGAINST: Councillors Bourne, Chuah, Coleman, Cory, Fox, Goss, Harris, Higgins, Hogg, King, Liddy, Lilley, McCarthy, B. Oxford, G. Oxford, P. Oxford, Pearson, Scott-Boutell, Warnes, Whitehead, J. Young and T. Young (The Deputy Mayor).
ABSTAINED : Councillors Barlow, Barton, Cope, Scordis and Davidson (The Mayor).
On being put to the vote the main amendment proposed by Councillor Barber was lost (TWENTY THREE voted FOR, TWENTY FIVE voted AGAINST and TWO ABSTAINED from voting).
Further to the provisions of Council Procedure 15(3) a named vote was taken and the voting was as follows:-
FOR: Councillors Arnold, Barber, Bentley, Buston, Chapman, Chillingworth, Crow, Dundas, Elliott, Ellis, Goacher, Hayter, Hazell, Jarvis, Jowers, Lissimore, Loveland, Luxford Vaughan, F. Maclean, J. Maclean, Moore, Willetts and Wood.
AGAINST: Councillors Barlow, Barton, Bourne, Chuah, Coleman, Cope, Cory, Fox, Goss, Harris, Higgins, Hogg, King, Liddy, Lilley, McCarthy, B. Oxford, G. Oxford, P. Oxford, Pearson, Scordis, Scott-Boutell, Warnes, Whitehead and J. Young.
ABSTAINED: Councillors Davidson (the Mayor) and T. Young (the Deputy Mayor)
On being put to the vote the main amendment proposed by Councillor Willetts was lost (TWENTY TWO voted FOR, TWENTY SIX voted AGAINST and TWO ABSTAINED from voting).
Further to the provisions of Council Procedure 15(3) a named vote was taken and the voting was as follows:-
FOR: Councillors Arnold, Barber, Bentley, Buston, Chapman, Chillingworth, Crow, Dundas, Elliott, Ellis, Goacher, Hayter, Hazell, Jarvis, Jowers, Lissimore, Loveland, F. Maclean, J. Maclean, Moore, Willetts and Wood.
AGAINST: Councillors Barlow, Barton, Bourne, Chuah, Coleman, Cope, Cory, Fox, Goss, Harris, Higgins, Hogg, King, Liddy, Lilley, Luxford Vaughan, McCarthy, B. Oxford, G. Oxford, P. Oxford, Pearson, Scordis, Scott-Boutell, Warnes, Whitehead and J. Young.
ABSTAINED: Councillors Davidson (the Mayor) and T. Young (the Deputy Mayor).
On being put to the vote the motion proposed by Councillor King was carried (TWENTY NINE voted FOR and TWENTY ONE voted AGAINST).
Further to the provisions of Council Procedure 15(3) a named vote was taken and the voting was as follows:-
FOR: Councillors Barlow, Barton, Bourne, Chuah, Coleman, Cope, Cory, Fox, Goacher, Goss, Harris, Higgins, Hogg, King, Liddy, Lilley, Luxford Vaughan, McCarthy, B. Oxford, G. Oxford, P. Oxford, Pearson, Scordis, Scott-Boutell, Warnes, Whitehead, J. Young, T. Young (the Deputy Mayor) and Davidson (the Mayor).
AGAINST: Arnold, Barber, Bentley, Buston, Chapman, Chillingworth, Crow, Dundas, Elliott, Ellis, Hayter, Hazell, Jarvis, Jowers, Lissimore, Loveland, F. Maclean, J. Maclean, Moore, Willetts and Wood.