Issue - meetings

No petitions have been received for presentation at this Council meeting.

A report by the Head of Democratic Services updating Council on petitions received by this Council is attached.

Council at its Annual Meeting in May 2010 adopted a new Petition Scheme, details of which had now been added to the Council’s website. The report of the Head of Democratic Services was considered which updated Council on the Petition Scheme and gave details of the four petitions received since the Petition Scheme was introduced.

The Chairman confirmed that no petitions had been received for presentation at this meeting.

Resolved:

That Council

(a)               note the report, the petitions received and the actions being taken as set out in the Appendix to the report presented and

(b)              note the proposed piloting of the E-Petitions Scheme with effect from mid September 2010.