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Island Independents, Labour and Liberal Democrat councillors have called for an Extraordinary meeting of the full council to be held to revisit last week's "bulldozed through" vote to not appoint a Chair of Scrutiny.
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Leaders of all the groups who worked on and submitted budgets have shared their full speeches with OnTheWight.
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Lib Dem Cllr Reg Barry's budget speech given at Wednesday's full council budget meeting.
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Councillors debated and voted on next year's budget, which sees £5.5m of cuts/savings to public services including a 2.99 per cent increase to Council Tax, £1 overnight parking across the Island and 5% increase in crematorium and cemetery charges.
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Cllr Reg Barry's budget speech
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OnTheWight has invited members from each political group or party on the Isle of Wight council to share their impressions of how the first six months of an Independent-led Isle of Wight council is working.
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The Conservatives tried to get a Motion through Full Council - praising themselves for the whole Island’s handling of Covid-19. Unsurprisingly, there was a significant pushback. All the details are in this report, for those who really want to understand what happened
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A council officer was tasked with making sure public money didn't go a company that went bankrupt over a year ago. Instead they paid them over half a million pounds.
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The need for Isle of Wight councillors to declare if they are Masons was explicitly written into the IW council’s constitution in 2001. OnTheWight can reveal this practice was undone last Summer under the last Conservative administration. Why was it undone and under whose authority?
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A discussion about the dress code for councillors attending meetings - largely referencing jackets and ties - was branded misogynist by a female councillor last night
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Chairmen and chairwomen that is, all elected at the Annual Council meeting held on Wednesday night.
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Readers may remember Retired Hack's article which revealed that the need for councillors to declare their membership of the Freemasons on the Members’ Register of Interests was removed during changes made by a delegated officer last summer.
