120 Petition on 2017 Parking Charges PDF 107 KB
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A Member asked whether the Chairman would be allowing public speaking during discussion of this item as there was some public interest. In response the Chairman advised Members that although initially there had been some interest from the public to speak on the parking item, they later declined to take up the opportunity. This meant that only the organiser of the petition would be speaking to any of the items.
The discussion of the item then began with Mr Roy Irving being invited by the Panel Chairman to address the meeting at which point Mr Irving presented the petition on 2017 parking charges.
Thereafter the Panel discussed the petition as requested by Full Council and Members made the following comments:
Councillor Brimm, Cabinet Member for Operational Services suggested that in debating the petition, the Panel should consider the proposals that were included in the briefing note that was tabled at the meeting.
The Chairman then gave Members a moment to study the proposals outlined within the briefing note, which are attached at Annex 1 to the minutes. Further debate was had and Members made the following comments:
In response to Gavin Waite, Director of Operational Services gave the following response:
· The 2017/18 fees and charges were considered by the Overview & Scrutiny Panel before Cabinet recommended these to Full Council for adoption;
· Through the briefing note tabled at the Panel meeting (Annex 1 to the minutes) the Executive had offered option 1 and option 2 from which the Panel could recommend a new charge structure for the five parks referred in the note;
· Option 1 would lead a loss of income of £10,000 and option 2 would cost council £20,000;
· Officers could not give guarantees that savings could be found within Operational Services to absorb the loss if Council reverted the parking charges to the ... view the full minutes text for item 120