Issue - meetings
Changing the Petitions Scheme to a Protocol
Meeting: 03/10/2013 - Council (Item 56)
56 Changing the Petitions Scheme to a Protocol 
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Minutes:
It was proposed by the Chairman, seconded by the Vice-Chairman and RESOLVED:
“THAT the recommendation as set out at paragraph 5.1 of the report be adopted, namely
That paragraphs 12.0 to 12.9 of the Council Procedure Rules be moved to Part 5 of the Council’s constitution and the following new paragraph 12.0 be added:
12.0 Petitions from the Public
The Council will receive, accept and deal with petitions from members of the public in accordance with the requirements of any Petitions Scheme from time to time adopted by the Council. The Council’s current Petitions Scheme is included in Part 5 of the Council’s constitution.”
Meeting: 04/09/2013 - Standards Committee (Item 59)
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Minutes:
The Standards Committee agreed that the Petition Scheme should become a Protocol rather than a Procedure and agreed to make the following recommendation to Council:
Moved: Cllr Lawson
Seconded: Cllr Roberts
Resolved: Recommendation to Council that paragraphs 12.0 to 12.9 of the Council Procedure Rules be moved to Part 5 of the Council’s constitution and the following new paragraph 12.0 be added.
“12.0 Petitions from the Public
The Council will receive, accept and deal with petitions from members of the public in accordance with the requirements of any Petitions Scheme from time to time adopted by the Council. The Council’s current Petitions Scheme is included in Part 5 of the Council’s constitution.”
Meeting: 21/08/2013 - Constitutional Review Committee (Item 13)
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Minutes:
It was AGREED TO RECOMMEND to Standards Committee:
THAT paragraphs 12.0 to 12.9 of the Council Procedure Rules be moved to Part 5 of the Council's constitution and that the following new paragraph 12.0 be added:
“12.0 Petitions from the Public
The Council will receive, accept and deal with petitions from members of the public in accordance with the requirements of any Petitions (singular in report rec) Scheme from time to time adopted by the Council. The Council’s current Petitions Scheme is included in Part 5 of the Council's constitution.”
It was NOTED that the Overview and Scrutiny Panel had, at its meeting on 20 August agreed:
“to refer the issue of the re-wording the Constitution in relation to debating of petitions at Council to the Constitutional Review Working Party”
and that a report on this matter would be brought to the next meeting of the Working Party.