[council] Council procedures

["Philip Sheppard" <philip.sheppard@xxxxxx>]

To make all our lives simpler and in particular to make constituency 
consultation practical,
could we desist from the recent practice of posting multiple contradictory 
motions on the
same topic before a meeting ?It is less than helpful to have motions that have 
not even been
seconded placed on the wiki and then discussed at a meeting.  This is 
especially true when
the same proposer has posted other motions on the same topic ! 
 
If a motion has any merit, then it should have found at least one other poor 
soul on Council
to support it before it makes an agenda. To seek a seconder at the meeting 
itself, detracts
from our credibility as a decision making body. Too often a motion seems to 
have been
seconded at the last moment more on the grounds of "I like so and so and thus I 
will be nice
and support their motion", rather than based on a rational view of the content 
of the motion
itself as discussed with constituents.
 
 
Focus, efficiency, progress,  - let these be our resolutions for 2009.
Philip