As we reported last week SCDC councillors voted overwhelmingly to congratulate the campaign and to support its aims but only after voting to remove the part of the original motion which deplored their cabinet's decision to instruct officers to close the park if no suitable partnership to take on the management of the park could be arranged or appeared likely by 31st August.
Many of our supporters had emailed councillors before the vote encouraging them to vote for the original motion. Afterwards some councillors mailed the supporters back to say that they had voted for the motion. What they didn't say is that many of them also voted for the amendment which turned the motion into something which was hard for anyone to vote against. For us that was the key section, so anyone who voted for this amendment is not helping the campaign to save the Park.
So today we're publishing a list of who voted for and against the amendment which removed the section deploring the cabinet's action.
| For | Against | Abstained |
|---|---|---|
|
Cllr Vicky Ford Cllr Richard Barrett Cllr Brian Burling Cllr Nigel Bolitho Cllr Dr David Bard Cllr Sandra Doggett Cllr Simon Edwards Cllr Thomas Bygott Cllr James Hockney Cllr Caroline Anne Hunt Cllr Ray Manning Cllr Roger Hall Cllr Mike Mason Cllr David McCraith Cllr Charles Nightingale Cllr Tony Orgee Cllr David Morgan Cllr Deborah Roberts Cllr Neil Scarr Cllr Susan Ellington Cllr Daphne Spink MBE Cllr Bunty Waters Cllr Janice Guest Cllr Peter Johnson Cllr Tim Wotherspoon Cllr Nicholas Wright Cllr Ray Matthews Cllr Robert Turner Cllr Philippa Corney |
Cllr John Batchelor Cllr Bob Bryant Cllr Jonathan Chatfield Cllr Ann Elsby Cllr Stephen Harangozo Cllr Janet Lockwood Cllr Liz Heazell Cllr Anthony Berent Cllr Helen Kember Cllr Sebastian Kindersley Cllr Robin Martlew Cllr Trisha Bear Cllr James Stewart Cllr Richard Summerfield Cllr Dr Susan van de Ven Cllr John Williams Cllr Hazel Smith |
Cllr Mark Howell |
If you live in SCDC and one of your councillors appears in the first column then they voted to remove the part of the motion deploring the cabinet's actions from the motion. You might like to ask them why they did that?
On the "substantive" motion, with the part deploring the cabinet's actions removed, unsurprisingly almost everyone who voted voted in favour. The exceptions were Cllr John Batchelor and Cllr Trisha Bear who voted against and Cllr Mark Howell who again abstained.
Written: 31/01/07
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