Issue - meetings

In accordance with Procedure Rules Nos.11 and 35 a period of 10 minutes is allocated for members of the public to address the meeting on any matter relevant to the work of the meeting. Individual members of the public may speak for up to 5 minutes but the Chairman will decide how the period of time allocated for public speaking will be apportioned where there are a number of speakers. Members of the public are not required to give notice to use this facility. However, as a matter of courtesy, a period of 24 hours’ notice is encouraged.

Members of the public wishing to ask a question at the meeting should provide three clear working days’ notice, in writing, in order for an informed answer to be given.

In accordance with Procedure Rules No. 11 and 35, a total period of 10 minutes was allocated for members of the public to address the Sub Committee on any matter relevant to its work.    

Councillor Moran, who declared his membership of the Council’s Governance and Constitution Committee, indicated that he wished to address the meeting before the debate commenced. 

In his opinion, Stage One of the consultation process had been confusing and was flawed; a view which he felt had been vindicated from the public responses received during Stage Two Consultation.  He considered that the whole of the borough of Cheshire East should be parished to ensure equality and prevent the raising of precepts (which he referred to as ‘double taxation’) in some areas but not others.  His final point referred to the Crewe Charter Trustees; a body which had the authority to raise taxes but was not, unlike a Town Council, accountable to the public as it was not a directly elected.