Over the last year or so we have heard from local SNP and Lib Dem politicians how important it is that the Council does something to address the flooding problems in the area.
Today we had a special meeting of the Council's Safe, Sustainable Communities Committee to consider early action proposals from officers. The Opposition groups are entitled to five members on the Committee and the Administration six. While the Administration was able field six members for this important meeting there were no Opposition members present at all.
While I am sure that some Opposition members had legitimate reasons for their absence, the Council allows them to nominate substitutes from within their own group to stand in for them.
The fact that not one Opposition member turned up speaks for itself.
The quorum for a committee is six members, so if only five Administration members had turned up the meeting would have had to be postponed and the proposals within the report delayed.
So much for dealing with flooding being a high priority for the SNP and Lib Dems!
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Please provide names of all those in opposition who failed to attend.
ReplyDeleteThey should be named and shamed.
I'll re-phrase that.
ReplyDeletePlease provide the names of all those who were entitled to, and chose not to attend.
I will email each individually and ask why they chose not to play their part in making Inverclyde economincally viable.
This is unbelievable. Why is the Telegraph not reporting how ineffectual the Lib Dems and SNP are on the Council? The voters need to know who is doing the work and who is just sitting back and collecting their salary for doing nothing.
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