Agenda item

Five valid Motions on Notice, signed by at least three Members of the Council, have been received for consideration at this meeting.

It was moved by Councillor L Bartoli and seconded by Councillor L Bones that:

Recording of Cabinet and Council Committees

Since the introduction of the recording and publication of Full Council meetings there has been an increased level of scrutiny and accountability. As more residents are able to see discussions for themselves, political debate within the borough has been enriched.

North Tyneside Council would like to further increase levels of transparency and accountability and therefore asks the Mayor and Council to:

1. Commit to the recording and publishing online of all Cabinet meetings and Council committee meetings, before the start of the new municipal year in May 2023, subject to the Members attending those meetings not passing a resolution to exclude the public from such meetings.

2. Invite the Monitoring Officer to advise Members on any copyright issues that might arise from all recordings of public meetings being made available to Members, the public and the press in relation to the sharing of extracts from Cabinet or Council Meetings on Social Media and anywhere else.

An amendment was moved by Councillor C Johnson and seconded by Councillor W Samuel as follows:

In paragraph 1, to add the following after Council Committee Meetings: ‘when the new technology which the council is in the process of installing is up and running and fully tested which is due to be May 2023’, and remove ‘before the start of the new municipal year in May 2023’.

To add the following sentence to the end of paragraph 2:  ‘Furthermore, invite the monitoring officer to advise of any legal or standards issues which may arise from sharing edited clip or taking clips out of context while sharing them.’

The amended motion therefore read:

Recording of Cabinet and Council Committees

Since the introduction of the recording and publication of Full Council meetings there has been an increased level of scrutiny and accountability. As more residents are able to see discussions for themselves, political debate within the borough has been enriched.

North Tyneside Council would like to further increase levels of transparency and accountability and therefore asks the Mayor and Council to:

1. Commit to the recording and publishing online of all Cabinet meetings and Council committee meetings when the new technology which the council is in the process of installing is up and running and fully tested which is due to be May 2023, subject to the Members attending those meetings not passing a resolution to exclude the public from such meetings.

2. Invite the Monitoring Officer to advise Members on any copyright issues that might arise from all recordings of public meetings being made available to Members, the public and the press in relation to the sharing of extracts from Cabinet or Council Meetings on Social Media and anywhere else.  Furthermore, invite the monitoring officer to advise of any legal or standards issues which may arise from sharing edited clip or taking clips out of context while sharing them. 

The amendment, on being put to the meeting, was approved unanimously.

The substantive motion, on being put to the meeting, was approved unanimously.