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Item
1.
DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST
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All Members present are
required to declare, at this point in the meeting or as soon as
possible thereafter
(i)Any disclosable pecuniary interests and /
or
(ii)Other interests arising under the Code of Conduct in
respect of any item(s) of business being considered at this
meeting
NOTES:
·Members are reminded that they must not participate
in any item where they have a disclosable pecuniary
interest
·As well as an interest of the Member, this includes
any interest, of which the Member is aware, that relates to the
Member’s spouse or civil partner (or any person with whom the
Member is living as a spouse or civil partner)
·Members with a significant personal interest may
participate in the discussion and vote on that matter unless that
interest could be reasonably regarded as prejudicial.
2.
PROCEDURAL ITEMS
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2a
Members' Questions
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The deadline for Members’ questions is
12pm four working days before the meeting (17 March 2017).
2b
Public Questions
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The deadline for public questions is seven
days before the meeting (16 March 2017).
Decision:
Two questions were
received from members of the public. The questions and responses
are attached as annex 1.
3.
Petitions
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Notice of
Petition
Received from Mrs Janet Holah, 7060 signatures
The new recycling
and waste charges to be introduced on 1st September 2016 are
exorbitant and will mean that the problem of fly tipping will
increase. Only being able to take one bag per day will result in
people making daily trips. How environmentally friendly is that?
Hundreds of cars making additional journeys and sitting in queues
at the dump! I don't think this policy has been thought through as,
far from generating an income for the County Council, it will cost
them as much, if not more, in having to clear up all the fly
tipping which is sure to result.
A
response will be tabled at the meeting.
Notice of
Petition
Received from Mr Michael Gibson, 4250 signatures
The Council’s
plan to cut funding under its 50-year agreement with the Surrey
Wildlife Trust to zero by 2021 will result in all the jobs of the
Trust’s 16 rangers becoming redundant. Few of these very
experienced and dedicated staff are going to be re-employed in the
much smaller organisation that will replace them. The loss of
experience and capacity will be highly detrimental to
Surrey’s countryside - the likelihood is that footpaths and
bridleways will not be properly maintained; woodlands, downlands
and heaths will increasingly be taken over by scrub and invasive
plants, and sensitive habitats - heaths, chalk downland and
coppiced woodlands (homes to nationally rare and threatened species
such as the dormouse) will be lost. If we care about and enjoy the
places that make Surrey special, these unnecessary and damaging
funding cuts must be reversed. The funding to avoid these job
losses is small – less than 15p per head of population
– in comparison to the risk of the harm caused.
A
response will be tabled at the meeting.
Decision:
That the petition responses, attached as annex
1, be approved.
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