tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post431303256952610111..comments2024-03-28T19:20:52.408+00:00Comments on WEMBLEY MATTERS: Cllr Duffy asks Standards Committee to defer his item to allow independent inputUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post-68840832287132897832017-09-28T15:57:04.128+01:002017-09-28T15:57:04.128+01:00Interesting.
We have seen (in a recent blog) the ...Interesting.<br /><br />We have seen (in a recent blog) the Chief Executive's advice to the Mayor over (not) holding the special Council meeting in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire, including the date and times of the emails between them.<br /><br />We know that, at the time of those emails, Cllrs. Pavey, Stopp and Warren had backed Cllr. Duffy's request for the Mayor to call a special Full Council meeting.<br /><br />We now know, from Cllr. Duffy's email above to the Chair of Standards Committee, that Cllrs. Chan and Hector also backed the request for a special meeting in emails. The information now needed is the dates and times of the emails which those two councillors sent.<br /><br />If at least one of those emails was sent, and received by the Mayor, before the Mayor (or whoever wrote the email on his behalf - see comments on the "Brent CEO's advice to Mayor" blog) accepted the advice from Carolyn Downs not to hold a special meeting, then the special meeting SHOULD have been held. <br /><br />Even though the Chief Executive may not have known about one or two of the councillors who had notified their support for calling a special meeting, if the Mayor had been notified by at least 5 members in time for a special meeting to be held, that should have been sufficient for the meeting to be called.<br /><br />If that was the case, the Chief Executive should not have stood in the way of a special meeting, even though it was inconvenient for her and other Council officers, and not the best use of Council resources (in her opinion). Depending on the facts over the timing of the emails from Cllr. Chan and Cllr. Hector, Cllr. Duffy may well have had good grounds for feeling frustrated that the special meeting he had called for was not held.<br /><br />Philip.Philip Granthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08216646114377430489noreply@blogger.com