Minutes for Council meeting, Oct 6 2010, 10.30AM official page

(i)         Friends of Union Terrace Gardens - in relation to item 8 (e)

In relation to item 5 (Allocation of Committee Places for the two Conservative Groups) on the Business Statement it has been agreed that the current allocations will continue.

Please note that this is an additional page circulated in connection with the main report

Please note that Councillor Corall has intimated that he will not be accepting a Senior Councillor allowance for the role.

Robert Gordon’s College have requested that the Council makes no appointment at this time.

For the avoidance of doubt, one supplementary question, limited to clarifying any answer given, may be asked by the original questioner and one further supplementary question may be asked by one other member.

To ask the Chair of the Pensions Panel, who if anybody, declared an interest at the Pensions Panel when discussing the pension arrangements for Oakbank School and to further ask, if nobody declared an interest at the Pensions Panel meeting, does the chair of the Pensions Panel remember an Elected Member declaring an interest at Council regarding Oakbank School by virtue of their position as Chairperson of the Pensions Panel and stated that he considered that the nature of that interest required the Elected Member to leave the meeting and take no part in the Council’s deliberations thereon and if so can he confirm if this Elected Member is also a member of the Pensions Panel and if so can he confirm the Elected Member’s name and the position he holds within the Pensions Panel?

 

 

Councillor Young has requested that the above question be placed on the agenda, in terms of Standing Order 20(2)(i), as he is of the opinion that that the elected member has not answered the question. Councillor Young stated that he specifically asked for the name and position the elected member holds within the Pensions Panel and this information is not contained within the answer. Councillor Young added that it would not be unreasonable to expect that the Chair of the Pensions Panel, who receives an enhanced payment from the Council for being the Chair of the Pensions Panel, should be aware of his brief and provide the name of the elected member.

“That this Council deplores Councillor Young’s remarks about the Lord Provost, reported in the ‘Evening Express’ on 18^th September, and calls upon Councillor Young to make an immediate public apology to the Lord Provost.”