Issue - meetings

note the annual report of the Finance and Resources Committee.

The Committee had before it a report by the Director of Corporate Services which presented the annual report of the Finance and Resources Committee to enable Members to provide comment on the data contained within.

The report recommended:-

that the Committee –

(a)      provide comments and observations on the data contained within the annual report; and

(b)      note the annual report of the Finance and Resources Committee.

The Convener, seconded by the Vice Convener, moved:-

that the Committee note the annual report of the Finance and Resources Committee.

Councillor Malik, seconded by Councillor Watson, moved as an amendment:-

that the Committee –

(1)    agree that governance of the Council and its committees has gone backwards following the recent changes to Standing Orders;

(2)    agree that it is Aberdeen Labour Group's opinion that the Committee dealt with a matter on the City Centre and Beach Masterplan that was out with the remit of the Committee on the basis that Council had not approved the transfer of the City Centre and Beach Masterplan to the Committee, they only referred it to the Committee; and

(3)    remind  members that, at the Finance and Resources Committee meeting on 7 August 2024, Councillor Watson is on record reporting that he was having online technology difficulties, but agrees that not enough was done about this by the Convener, meaning transparency and scrutiny was revoked in favour of a 30-minute meeting of committee thus denying the full voice of the Committee to be heard.  

On a division there voted:- for the motion (7) – the Convener, the Vice Convener and Councillors Allard, Brooks, Farquhar, Greig and Radley; for the amendment (2) – Councillors Malik and Watson.

The Committee resolved:-

to adopt the motion.