The issue of the moving the Fire Control Centre off the Isle of Wight will be up for debate again next week.
Discussion of the motion on last month’s agenda put forward by Cllr Geoff Lumley was stalled due by procedural rules, which meant it had to go to Cabinet before being discussed by full council.
As VB reported last month, the Cabinet voted to vote against the motion when it goes to full council on the 20th July (Next Wednesday).
Details of the motions below and agenda embedded for your convenience.
Motion submitted under Procedure Rule 16 (1) of the Council’s Constitution signed by Cllrs Jonathan Bacon, Reg Barry, Vanessa Churchman, Rodney Downer, John Howe, Patrick Joyce, David Knowles, Geoff Lumley, Colin Richards, Ian Stephens, Chris Welsford, Wayne Whittle and subsequently moved at the last Council meeting by Councillor Geoff Lumley.
Council resolves, in the light of increasing public concern, to reverse the 2011 Budget decision and subsequent delegated decision (15/11) to transfer the Isle of Wight Fire Control service to Surrey Fire and Rescue Service. Further it agrees that any future alternative provision of this service must be Island based.
In accordance with Procedure Rule 11 this motion was adjourned at the last Council meeting and considered by the Cabinet at its meeting on 21 June 2011 (Paper B). Cabinet considered the attached report (Paper B) and made the following recommendation :
To recommend to Council to vote against the motion to recommend Cabinet to reverse the decision to merge fire control with Surrey and therefore to affirm the Cabinet decision to merge fire control with Surrey and furthermore that the report to the cabinet of Tuesday, 21 June 2011 and the delegated decision of 3 May 2011 (Paper C) previously considered be included in the papers for the council meeting to which this recommendation returns.
All being well, we’ll be attending the meeting and will report back. Live updates through Twitter/Facebook on the night.
