Falkirk Council welcomes the joint commitment from COSLA and the Scottish Government to a national minimum clothing grant and the additional funding to support the commitment. Falkirk Council seeks to minimise the impact of poverty through the anti-poverty strategy and the additional £201,000 funding should be directed to this aim.
Full council, 27 June 2018: a named vote between a motion and an amendment.
For the motion 17, For the amendment 12, Abstained 1.
Party in overall control of the council on the date: No overall control. Each councillor's party is the one the council recorded for them at the time.
For the motion (17)
- Alan Nimmo (No party recorded)
- Allyson Black (No party recorded)
- David Aitchison (No party recorded)
- David Grant (No party recorded)
- Dennis Goldie (No party recorded)
- James Kerr (No party recorded)
- Jim Blackwood (No party recorded)
- Jim Flynn (No party recorded)
- Joan Coombes (No party recorded)
- John McLuckie (No party recorded)
- John Patrick (No party recorded)
- Lynn Munro (No party recorded)
- Malcolm Nicol (No party recorded)
- Nigel Harris (No party recorded)
- Pat Reid (No party recorded)
- Robert Bissett (No party recorded)
- William F Buchanan (No party recorded)
For the amendment (12)
- Adanna McCue (No party recorded)
- Ann Ritchie (No party recorded)
- Cecil Meiklejohn (No party recorded)
- David Alexander (No party recorded)
- David Balfour (No party recorded)
- Fiona Collie (No party recorded)
- Gary Bouse (No party recorded)
- Gordon Hughes (No party recorded)
- Laura Murtagh (No party recorded)
- Lorna Binnie (No party recorded)
- Paul Garner (No party recorded)
- Robert J Spears (No party recorded)
Abstained (1)
- Niall Coleman (No party recorded)
From the minutes
to the Budget Working Group to inform service budget planning assumptions. In terms of Standing Order 22.1, the vote was taken by roll call, there being 30 members present with voting as undernoted:- For the motion (17) – Provost Buchanan; and Councillors Aitchison, Bissett, Black, Blackwood, Coombes, Flynn, Goldie, Grant, Harris, Kerr, McLuckie, Munro, Nicol, Nimmo, Patrick and Reid. For the amendment (12) – Depute Provost Ritchie; and Councillors Alexander, Balfour, Binnie, Bouse, Collie, Garner, Hughes, McCue, Meiklejohn, Murtagh and Spears. Abstention (1) – Councillor Coleman. Decision Council agreed the motion. Prior to consideration of the following item Councillor Patrick left the meeting. (d) Council considered the following motion by Councill
The item in the council's own minutes. Names are matched to the councillors listed at the meeting. The names of people who aren't councillors are removed.