At the beginning of August due to unforeseen circumstances our Scottish Welfare Fund team found itself with one person holding the fort rather than a team of 6. Our staff worked very hard to try and alleviate the situation but they were working against the odds and this meant that some of our most vulnerable citizens saw significant delays in receiving their community care grant.
Full council, 25 September 2019: a named vote between a motion and an amendment.
For the motion 12, For the amendment 11, Abstained 0.
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 (12)
- Alan Nimmo (No party recorded)
- Allyson Black (No party recorded)
- Dennis Goldie (No party recorded)
- Jim Blackwood (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)
- William F Buchanan (No party recorded)
For the amendment (11)
- 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)
- Niall Coleman (No party recorded)
- Robert J Spears (No party recorded)
From the minutes
the Support and Advice Hubs at the December 2019 meeting of the Executive. In terms of Standing Order 22.1, the vote was taken by roll call, there being 23 members present with voting as undernoted:- For the motion (12) – Provost Buchanan, and Councillors Black, Blackwood, Coombes, Goldie, Harris, McLuckie, Munro, Nicol, Nimmo, Patrick and Reid. For the amendment (11) – Depute Provost Ritchie, and Councillors Alexander, Balfour, Binnie, Bouse, Coleman, Collie, Hughes, Meiklejohn, Murtagh and Spears. Decision Council agreed the motion. Councillors Goldie and Nicol left the meeting prior to consideration of the following item. (c) Council considered the following motion b
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.