Council Meeting
Jan 21st, 2010 by bobdootson
Chorley Council will be having a full Council meeting on Tuesday the 26th Jan/2010.
The meeting will be at the Town Hall, Market St, Chorley, commencing at 6-30pm
Ourselves and an individual objector will be submitting questions to the Council.
The rules state that we can only ask one question each, covering no more than Three minutes. following the Councils reply, we can then ask a supplementary question.
How do you compile 18 months into 3 minutes?. If I can do that, I should be able to walk on water.
The public can attend, but can’t make any comment.
It could be a very interesting and informative meeting.
Well we attended the meeting, and what a waste of time. We where allowed 3 minutes to ask a question (which we had to provide 2 working days before the meeting), then the Leader of the Council responded with a prepared reply. We weren’t allowed to respond to his reply.
Then we could ask a supplementary question (but only in the time left over from the original 3 minutes). The Leader of the Council again gave a reply, and again we weren’t allowed to respond.
We were not allowed any form of dialogue. (not very democratic if you ask me).
I accept that there must be some sort of time scale, but this is ridiculous. There was approx 47 Councillors in attendance and none of them with the exception of the Leader could make comment.
In all a very boring meeting with no outcome………