Councillors cut

Warrington Borough Council has passed a recommendation to cut the number of councillors required to attend a meeting from 38 to 29.

There are currently 57 members on the council.

Government recommendations had suggested that only one quarter of the whole number of members was required for a full council meeting. But when the council considered it a recommendation was proposed that the figure of one quarter was too low and that three quarters of members (38) should attend meetings.

But, recently the council has had to arrange a number of meetings within a short space of time.

On occasions it has been noted that this requirement has only just been met and councillors were concerned that if the required amount of councillors had not been able to attend, they would have not been able to conduct council business.

Warrington Borough Council has reviewed the meeting quorum of other councils and could not find any others that required three quarters of mem

-bers to attend meetings.

The proposals were contained within a report on the constitutional task group put forward to the Executive board at a meeting last Monday where further recommendations on council affairs were put forward.