2020-11-10 Services & Organisation Committee Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA   10 NOVEMBER 2020




                                                       Page 47 of 131

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                          10 NOVEMBER 2020

           28.   Motion to be Seconded
           28.1 A motion or an amendment to a motion shall not be debated at a meeting of Council unless or
                 until the motion or the amendment is seconded, with the exception of Mayoral minutes.
           28.2 A motion or an amendment which does not receive a seconder shall lapse.

           29. Amendment of Motion
           29.1 An amendment to a motion shall be in terms which retain the identity of the original motion and
                 does not directly negate the motion.
           29.2 No more than one motion or one proposed amendment to a motion may be put before a
                 meeting of Council at any one time.
           29.3 Where an amendment to a motion is before a meeting of Council, no other amendment to the
                 motion shall be considered until after the first amendment has been determined.
           29.4 A Councillor who moves or seconds a motion may not propose or second an amendment to
                that motion.
           29.5 Any amendment to a motion must be proposed before the mover of the motion has exercised
                their right of reply.
           29.6 Where an amendment is carried, the original motion cannot become a further amendment.

           30.   Speaking to Motions and Amendments
           30.1 The mover of a motion or amendment shall read it and shall state that it is so moved but shall
                 not speak to it until it is seconded.
           30.2 The Chairperson will manage the debate by allowing the Councillor who proposed the motion
                the option of speaking first on the motion. The Chairperson will then call on any other Councillor
                who wishes to speak until all Councillors who wish to speak have had the opportunity.
           30.3 A Councillor may make a request from, or through, the Chairperson for further information or
                 ask a question:
                a)    before the motion or amendment is seconded; and
                 b)   after the motion or amendment is seconded once the Councillor who moved the motion
                      has been given the opportunity to speak.
           30.4 A motion or amendment may be withdrawn or modified by the mover thereof with the consent
                 of the seconder and Council, which shall be signified without debate, and a Councillor shall not
                 speak upon such motion or amendment thereof after the mover has been granted permission
                 by the seconder and Council for its withdrawal.
           30.5 The mover of a motion or amendment shall have the right to reply with the exception of the
                 procedural motion ‘that the motion be put’. Each Councillor shall speak no more than once to
                the same motion or same amendment except as a right of reply.
           30.6 Once the right of reply has been exercised, the debate is closed
           30.7 Each speaker shall be restricted to not more than five (5) minutes unless the Chairperson rules
                 otherwise.
           30.8 Where two or more Councillors indicate they may wish to speak at the same time, the
                 Chairperson shall determine who is entitled to priority.
           30.9 In accordance with Section 254H of the Local Government Regulation 2012, if a decision made
                 at a meeting is inconsistent with a recommendation or advice given to Council by an advisor
                 of the Council, the minutes of the meeting must include a statement of the reasons for not
                 adopting the recommendation or advice.

           Standing Orders for Council Meetings                                                   Page 14

                                                                                                 Page 47 of 131