Agenda item

Deferred at Council in December 2023

With reference to Article 5 of the minute of its meeting of 14 December 2023, the Council had before it a report by the Interim Chief Officer - Governance (Assurance) which presented the annual effectiveness report for Council to enable members to provide comment on the data contained within, as well as the annual effectiveness reports of the various committees, which had been considered by those committees.

The report recommended:-

that the Council -

(a)           provide comments and observations on the data contained within the Council annual report as contained at Appendix A; and

(b)           note the annual reports of the various committees as contained at Appendices B to K.

Councillor Allard moved, seconded by Councillor Yuill:-

          That the Council -

(a)       note the Council annual report as contained at Appendix A; and

(b)       note the annual reports of the various committees as contained at Appendices B to K.

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

          That the Council -

(a)       note the contents of the report;

(b)       note Aberdeen Labour’s amendment at the Anti-Poverty and Inequality Committee in November 2023 in relation to its Annual Effectiveness Report;

(c)       agree that anti-poverty is already dealt with by Community Planning Aberdeen and that eradication of poverty involves many differing agencies all of which are part of Community Planning Aberdeen; and

(d)       agree that the Anti-Poverty and Inequality Committee should be disbanded as part of the next review of the Scheme of Governance in 2024.

On a division, there voted:-

For the motion  (31)  -  Lord Provost; Depute Provost; and Councillor Al-Samarai, Allard, Alphonse, Boulton, Bouse, Brooks, Hazel Cameron, Clark, Cooke, Copland, Cormie, Cross, Davidson, Farquhar, Greig, Henrickson, Houghton, Hutchison, Kusznir, MacGregor, McLellan, McLeod, Massey, Mennie, Nicoll, Radley, Mrs Stewart, van Sweeden and Yuill.

For the amendment  (10)  -  Councillors Ali, Blake, Bonsell, Crockett, Graham, Grant, Lawrence, Macdonald, Thomson and Watson.

Absent from the division  (1)  -  Councillor Tissera.

The Council resolved:-

to adopt the motion.