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As part of their alternative budget, the two Labour and one LibDem councillors propose 1.99% increase as opposed to the 4.99% increase being proposed by the Conservative UKIP Alliance.
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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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With the Isle of Wight council elections less than a year away, OnTheWight asked leaders of all the political groups for their “view on how things have been since the last election and your hopes for the next 11 months”. Here’s what Liberal Democrat Reg Barry had to say.
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Chairmen and chairwomen that is, all elected at the Annual Council meeting held on Wednesday night.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Lib Dem Cllr Reg Barry's budget speech given at Wednesday's full council budget meeting.
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Island Liberal Democrats aren't impressed with the results of the four year Youth Services Review.
