Minutes – Full Council (Extra ordinary meeting) – 2 April 2025
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EXTRA ORDINARY MEETING OF COUNCIL
Minutes
Date: 2 April 2025
Time: 4.30pm to 5.21pm
Location: The Council Chamber – The Council House • North Street • CHICHESTER • West Sussex • PO19 1LQ
PRESENT: The Mayor, Councillor Quail (SQ), the Deputy Mayor, Councillor Loxton (SL), Councillors Apel (CA), Butler (AB), Chant (RC), Corfield (MC), C Gershater (CG), J Gershater (JG), McHale (SM), Miall (RMi), Pramas (LP), Scicluna (AS) and Vivian (JV).
ALSO IN ATTENDANCE: Town Clerk (TC), Deputy Town Clerk (DTC), Council Services and Support Manager (CSSM), West Sussex County Councillor Simon Oakley
108. APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE
Apologies were noted from Councillors Knight, Kondabeka and Squire.
Councillor Moore was absent.
109. DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST BY MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL IN MATTERS ARISING ON THE AGENDA FOR THIS MEETING
No declarations were made.
110. LOCAL GOVERNMENT DEVOLUTION IN ENGLAND
Council considered the recommendations from the Devolution Working Group in order to agree the City Council’s response to HM Government’s consultation regarding the proposed Sussex and Brighton Strategic Mayoral Authority.
The Mayor read out the proposed responses in order and asked Members for feedback on the draft document.
Council AGREED to submit the response as presented in the report circulated before the meeting, subject to the following changes:
Q1) Change the response to Don’t Know.
Q2) Change the response to Strongly Disagree.
Q5) Change the response to Disagree.
Q6) Change the response to Strongly Disagree.
Q7) Change the response to Strongly Disagree.
Members further AGREED to make the following changes to the text of the draft response:
To add an introduction highlighting the City Council’s concerns regarding the lack of a robust evidence or rationale for the proposed devolution model.
Q6 – text to be added highlighting concerns about water quality.
RESOLVED that the Town Clerk would make the agreed changes and submit the response to the consultation on behalf of the City Council.
111. COMMON SEAL
RESOLVED that the Common Seal be affixed to any documents necessary to give effect to the resolutions passed at this meeting.
DATE OF NEXT ORDINARY MEETING: 30 April 2025 at 6.00pm
The meeting closed at 5.21pm
ACTIONS ARISING FROM THIS MEETING
| Minute ref. | Action | Assigned to: |
| 110 | Amend City Council response to the consultation as agreed by Councillors and submit the response to the Government | Town Clerk |