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to have a seat on the appeals committee? How aren't they meant to have a seat on that committee? But I didn't think that's... I mean, when I worked at Safeways, when you turned up for your shift, you couldn't go, Oh, actually, I don't fancy being in the bakery this week. Can I go on the checkouts or can I just not do the bakery? Isn't it just the same? Thanks. Thanks, Councillor Sammon, and I think this is part of the point I was making about how local government works, that unfortunately we're not as clever as Safeways off the time. There we go. Never. Right, okay. So... Sorry? I'll be carrying on with this. Councillor Rhampton, a different point I'm assuming. Sorry, thank you, Chair. I didn't hear you. I just want you to say, I think it's entirely inappropriate to be having this conversation. I think we can all see that the one member of Pull Engage who's here tonight is actually quite unwell, and this is really embarrassing and humiliating for her. She's taken up her right not to take that seat, and I'm sure as the, I don't know if I'm current Chair or previous Chair or whatever, but I'm sure that Councillor Riggby, who has been an asset to the Appeals Committee, will be an asset in the forthcoming municipal year. Thank you. Thank you, Councillor. Was there any... Oh, Councillor Riggby? Sorry, Chair. I thought I might as well speak, just while my name has been bandied around everywhere tonight. Yeah, so we voted on Math Council for the Green Party to take the seat, which Pull Engage didn't want to take up, and we were happy to do it because we were the one political group which wasn't already represented on the Appeals Committee. I put my name forward to fill it, and I've done two meetings so far, and it's been all right, but honestly, if anyone else wants it, and this is a problem, please put someone else's name there, and let's talk about them. But for now, for the smooth run of Council, we're happy to continue having it as the Green Group. We're happy if someone else wants it, but if you want me to, I'm happy to also continue and sit on that committee. Thanks. Yes, do come forward. Hi, as Vice Chair of the Appeals Committee, I would like to second Councillor Rampton's nomination for Councillor Rigby to stay on the Appeals Committee. Thank you. I think the officer thinks that doesn't need doing. I don't think it was. So I think we need a seconder for Councillor Slade's amendment to table three. Yes, we're now going to this amendment for table three. I'll second Councillor Slade's amendment. Thank you. Thank you, Councillor Coxe. I was just going to say we need a seconder, but now we have one in Councillor Coxe. Thank you. Right, no further debate on this. I'll wait till Councillor Farr resumes his seat. We all sit in comfortably. Now, we've had a full debate on that. I don't think anybody can be confused or shouldn't be by now. Councillor Coxe, you're seconding. Did you want to speak? No. Certainly not. Thank you. So members, we are... The Councillor's saying all the summer. Oh, I'm so sorry. Well, I thought Councillor Stade had summed up originally. She'd summed up something else. Councillor Slade, sum up please. I have nothing to add. Thank you. Right, so members, we are now voting on the amendment which we now understand, I hope, to the amendment on table three, which is on C. Can I just have clarification from the chief exec or the monitoring officer that we're doing the right thing? All right, that's right. So members, would it be best with a share of hands on this or do we have consensus that we agree? Phew. Thank you. Well done, everybody. Right, so that was item C, I think. Good. So just getting item C and its amendment. Item D, the allocation of seats to each political group. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. That's really good work. And E, subject to D, requested to approve the appointment of unaligned members to the relevant outside bodies. Not needed. Okay, that's good. We don't even need E, so we've finally finished. Okay, back to the script. Right, that seems a long time ago that we started on agenda item five. It's now, oh, close the meeting. Thank you, members. Yes. Oh, we have another apology, which we need to know, which was Councillor Pete Miles, who is unable to attend. Okay, thank you, members. Can you remain seated until the live stream has earned it? And then I will. Okay.