[council] Council procedures
To make all our
lives simpler and in particular to make constituency consultation practical,
could we desist from the recent practice of posting multiple contradictory
motions on the same topic before a meeting ?It is less than helpful to have
motions that have not even been seconded placed on the wiki and then discussed
at a meeting. This is especially true when the same proposer has posted
other motions on the same topic !
If a motion has any
merit, then it should have found at least one other poor soul on Council to
support it before it makes an agenda. To seek a seconder at the meeting itself,
detracts from our credibility as a decision making body. Too often a motion
seems to have been seconded at the last moment more on the grounds of "I like so
and so and thus I will be nice and support their motion", rather than based
on a rational view of the content of the motion itself as discussed with
constituents.
Focus, efficiency,
progress, - let these be our resolutions for 2009.
Philip