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