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To All Members of the County Council

Notice of a Meeting of the Council

Tuesday 20 November 2001 at 11.00 am

County Hall, Oxford

Chris Impey

Assistant Chief Executive & Solicitor to the Council

Contact officer: Ann Lowe (Tel: 01865 815384; E-mail: ann.lowe@oxfordshire.gov.uk)

Members are asked to sign the attendance book which will be available in the corridor outside the Council Chamber. A list of members present at the meeting will be compiled from this book.

A buffet luncheon will be provided

AGENDA

Minutes

To approve the Minutes of the meeting held on 16 October 2001 and to receive for information any matters arising therefrom.

Apologies for Absence

Declarations of Interest

Official Communications

Appointments

To appoint Martin Wilkinson of 78 Sandfield Road, Headington, Oxford OX3 7RL as a non-voting co-opted member of the Best Value Committee

Petitions and Public Address

Questions with Notice from Members of the Public

Report of the Executive

Questions with Notice from Members of the Council

Motions with Notice from Members of the Council

Motion from Councillor Brian Hodgson

This Council instructs the Democracy & Organisation Committee to draw up a clear protocol to cover the situation where Oxfordshire County Council officers work part-time and/or temporarily for, or provide consultancy to, other bodies or councils.

Motion from Councillor Brown

This Council reaffirms its commitment to consulting all members of the community and sharing information with them on any and all current issues.

Council therefore resolves to:

1. ask the political groups to consider the background briefing paper on Local Area Structures which the officers are already preparing;
2. take steps to ensure that other bodies such as the Police and the Primary Care Trusts are also invited to participate where appropriate; and
3. ask the Corporate Governance Scrutiny Committee to consider the options for local area structures and to bring forward proposals to the Executive and to the Council for consideration as part of the review of the new political management arrangements.

Motion from Councillor Margaret MacKenzie

Council notes the inconsistency, and hence unfairness, of the existing policy with regard to the provision of transport from Sutton Courtenay, on the one hand for all to their catchment area secondary schools in Abingdon, and, on the other, for half the village only, to their nearest secondary school in Didcot. Council therefore requests the Executive to review the existing policy with regard to the provision of school transport from and to Sutton Courtenay and, in so doing, to give a higher priority to using common sense in being fair to all pupils living in that village than to the application of blind equality to all, across the County.

Motion from Councillor Neil Fawcett

• to give early consideration to this issue in formulating their programme of work;
• to make arrangements for all Councillors to be consulted;
• to take into account the views expressed by members on ways in which County Councillors could strengthen links with the communities and constituents they represent.

November 2001