Issue - meetings

The Lord Provost advised that he had accepted the referral from the Guildry and Mortification Funds Committee as a matter of urgency in terms of Section 50B(4)(b) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, due to funding being required from the 2024/25 budget, and that it would be considered later in the meeting.

Councillor Ali moved as a procedural motion, seconded by Councillor Tissera:-

That item 10.1 (Notice of Motion by Councillor Ali) be taken earlier on the agenda as a result of the number of people in the public gallery who were in attendance for that item.

On a division, there voted:-

For the procedural motion   (18)  -  Councillors Ali, Blake, Bonsell, Boulton, Brooks, Crockett, Cross, Graham, Kusznir, Lawrence, Macdonald, McLeod, Malik, Nicoll, Mrs Stewart, Thomson, Tissera and Watson. 

Against the procedural motion  (22)  -  Lord Provost; Depute Provost; and Councillors Al-Samarai, Allard, Alphonse, Bouse, Hazel Cameron, Clark, Cooke, Copland, Cormie, Davidson, Fairfull, Greig, Henrickson, Hutchison, MacGregor, McLellan, Mennie, Radley, van Sweeden and Yuill.

Absent from the division  (1)  -  Councillor Grant.

The Council resolved:-

to reject the procedural motion.