Issue - meetings
2012/2017 Legacy Report
Meeting: 22/02/2017 - Council (Item 1)
1 Aberdeen: The Smarter City - Progress Report 2012-2017 PDF 33 KB
Additional documents:
Decision:
(i) to note the content of the progress report; and
(ii) to agree to the inclusion of the report in Council Tax bills for 2017/18.
Minutes:
With reference to Article 12 of the minute of its meeting of 6 October 2016, the Council had before it a report by the Chief Executive which responded to the decision to present a legacy report on the work of the Council for the period May 2012 to present to be included in the Council Tax bills for 2017/18.
The report recommended:-
that the Council -
(a) note the content of the progress report; and
(b) agree to the inclusion of the report in Council Tax bills for 2017/18.
Councillor Flynn moved as a procedural motion, seconded by Councillor Yuill:-
That Standing Order 22(1) be suspended in order that there be no decision to present a legacy report to be included in the Council Tax bills, and therefore that the report not be considered this day.
On a division, there voted:-
For the procedural motion (20) - Councillors Cameron, Copland, Corall, Cormie, Delaney, Dickson, Jackie Dunbar, Flynn, Greig, Hutchison, Jaffrey, MacGregor, Malone, Nicoll, Noble, Samarai, Jennifer Stewart, Sandy Stuart, Townson and Yuill.
Against the procedural motion (21) - Lord Provost; Depute Provost; and Councillors Allan, Boulton, Carle, Cooney, Crockett, Donnelly, Lesley Dunbar, Finlayson, Graham, Grant, Ironside, Laing, Lawrence, Malik, Milne, Jean Morrison, Nathan Morrison, Taylor and Young.
The Council resolved:-
to reject the procedural motion and therefore consider the report this day.
At this juncture, Councillor Laing proposed that the report on the Common Good Budget 2017/18 to 2021/22 be referred simpliciter to the Finance, Policy and Resources Committee on 9 March 2017.
The Council further resolved:-
that the report on the Common Good Budget 2017/18 to 2021/22 be referred simpliciter to the Finance, Policy and Resources Committee on 9 March 2017.
The Council further resolved:-
to approve the recommendations in the report as outlined above.