Extraordinary Full Town Council Agenda 04-03-2021
Notice is hereby given of an extraordinary meeting of the Newmarket Town Council
Thursday 4th March 2021 at 07:30pm on Zoom
The link to join the meeting is:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89385754445?pwd=Y1JveWRBRGR1b3dzZVdMYXpodmMzUT09
Meeting ID: 893 8575 4445 & password: Or by telephone: +441314601196
The meeting will be conducted in the usual way with one person speaking at a time, those wishing to speak putting their hands up and the Mayor determining whose turn it is to speak. Voting will be orally, by roll call. Occasionally matters relating to contractual or staffing issues have to be held in the confidential part of the meeting.
The meeting is open to the public who are encouraged to join and participate at the appropriate time
Members of the public and press may not report or comment about a meeting as it takes place if present at a meeting of the Council, but otherwise may:
a. film, photograph or make an audio recording of the meeting;
b. use any other means for enabling persons not present to see or hear proceedings at a meeting as it takes place or later;
c. report or comment on the proceedings in writing, during or after a meeting or orally after the meeting.
The meeting will be recorded. Any member of the public in attendance who does not wish to be included in the recording can disable their video although this would prohibit their ability to participate in the meeting at the appropriate time.
Councillors are hereby summoned to attend for the purpose of transacting the business that follows
1. Welcome – The Mayor to announce that this meeting is being recorded and to ask whether anyone else intends to record the meeting
2. Apologies for absence
3. Declaration of interests
a) Councillors are invited to raise any declarations of interest concerning items on the agenda
b) To consider any requests for dispensation
4. Public participation – an invitation to members of the public to make representations to Councillors. Resolutions can only be made on items on the agenda
Rules of public participation: no person may speak on more than two items and for no longer than 3 minutes in total. The maximum time permitted for this item is 15 minutes. This is the only opportunity during the meeting, for members of the public to address Councillors.
5. Exclusion of the press & public – To resolve that under the Public Bodies (Admissions to Meetings) Act 1960, the public and press be excluded for the remainder of the meeting because of the likely disclosure of private and commercially sensitive information
6. Town Museum – To consider a possible site for a Town Museum
Signed: D.Baines
Debbie Baines, Town Clerk 26th February 2021
The Local Authorities and Police and Crime Panels (Coronavirus) (Flexibility of Local Authority and Police and Crime Panel Meetings) (England and Wales) Regulations 2020 came into force on 4th April 2020, permitting local authority meetings to be held remotely, including by video and telephone conferencing. This arrangement is currently in effect until May 2021.