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Lib Dems release their amendments to the alternative budget proposed by the Independent Group
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Cllr Reg Barry's budget speech
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LibDems say there's "still a lot of confusion surrounding the PFI proposals"
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Island Liberal Democrats aren't impressed with the results of the four year Youth Services Review.
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Lib Dem Cllr Reg Barry's budget speech given at Wednesday's full council budget meeting.
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An unknown IWC Constitution procedural rule has been discovered after two pages that were stuck together have been prised apart. Tories say they will co-opt LibDems onto ruling party and form a coalition. No elections are necessary as the ruling party are given permission to do as they wish.
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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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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.
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An amendment to the proposal that an Executive Committee system be acknowledged as the preferred option means members of the public will be asked to consider the merits of three options of council governance rather than one.
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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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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.
