Issue - meetings

At this juncture, Councillor Malik moved an urgent motion asking the Committee to consider the following:-

That Committee:-

(a)            notes that Aberdeen has been well served by having a member on the Local Authority Pension Fund Forum;

(b)            notes that the forum is made up from 83 local authorities throughout the UK;

(c)            notes that councillor Malik represented Aberdeen as Executive member on the LAPFF from 2020 to 2022 and was the only ethnic minority voice on the forum; and

(d)            agrees that Aberdeen City Council is a diverse Council that respects diversity as an inclusive organisation therefore agrees to endorse Councillor Malik as the LAPFF representative and amend the budget forecasts to reflect this position.

The Convener did not accept that the matter was urgent and therefore in terms of Standing Order 36.3, ruled that it would not be put before the Committee for consideration. 

Councillor Tissera stated that she wished to record her dissent at the decision.