Issue - meetings

Consideration was given to a letter received from Tewkesbury Borough Council seeking support for motions agreed by that authority with regard to flood defence funding and its call for the Government to create a single organisation with overarching responsibility for flooding.

Officers advised that at the meeting of the Scrutiny Steering Board the previous evening it had been suggested that the Cabinet might wish to defer consideration of the motions until the outcomes of the joint countywide scrutiny exercise on flooding, for which agreement in principle had been reached at the informal meeting of Scrutiny Members from each authority on 26th November 2007, were known.  

RESOLVED:

(a)       that the Cabinet defer consideration of the motions agreed by Tewkesbury Borough Council until the outcomes of the joint countywide scrutiny exercise on flooding were known; and

(b)       that officers write to Tewkesbury Borough Council to advise them as to the position.