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Originally Posted by garinda
Was it mentioned that there might be a conflict of interest, with the butties and buffets coming from a firm closely associated with someone who's now a councillor?
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Cllr Hurn and Cllr Pam Barton left the chamber through a personal and prejudicial interest in the matter. The situation with buffets does not sit well with me for various reasons, plus it is what I consider to be a non-essential item of council spending. I'm sure someone will bring up Daltons but printing council literature is a little bit more important than feeding the councillors in my opinion.
It would appear that at least 17 members of the council are averse to either making their own lunch or paying for it themselves based on last night's vote. In order to have lost that motion at least one of the Independent councillors would seem to have voted against it as I don't recall any abstentions.
That surprises me most of all as they accused Labour of not cutting back far enough in our budget.