Proposed by Councillor Blakeley

Seconded by Councillor Leah Fraser

(1)  This Council notes that the Housing and Community Safety Overview and Scrutiny Committee, at its meeting on 18 November 2008, was not aware of the proposals with regard to the Strategic Asset Review (SAR), and the potential loss of many public buildings, when it considered this budget saving.

(2)  Council notes that, as a consequence of the SAR, there is potentially the loss of many locations, such as libraries, leisure centres, community centres and other public buildings that would have otherwise made available to the public the weekly Wirral Homes advert.

(3)  Therefore, Council believes that those people who are looking for housing, and who rely on the Wirral Homes advertisement being freely available, will be severely disadvantaged.

(4)  Council therefore does not accept the Cabinet’s recommended budget saving of £10,000.

Having applied the guillotine, the Council did not debate this matter and it was –

Resolved (24:39:2) – That the objection be not approved.

NB.  The following Councillors requested that their vote in favour of the objection be recorded:

Councillors T Anderson, C Blakeley, SL Clarke, WA Duffey, DM Elderton, GJ Ellis, Mrs L Fraser, JE Green, J Hale, Karen Hayes, Paul Hayes, AC Hodson, PSC Johnson, J Keeley, I Lewis, SD Moseley, SR Mountney, C Povall, A Pritchard, Mrs LA Rennie, SL Rowlands, Sue Taylor, GCJ Watt, and Mrs K Wood.

Councillor Kirwan requested that his abstention be recorded.