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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=875412413-07012009>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 ?</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial
size=2><SPAN class=875412413-07012009>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 ! </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=875412413-07012009>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.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=875412413-07012009>Focus, efficiency,
progress, - let these be our resolutions for 2009.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=875412413-07012009>Philip</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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