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Good evening, everyone. It's seven o'clock. We're going to start meeting. I'd like to welcome everyone for this extraordinary meeting of the council, both councilors and officers, as well as members of the public that are watching tonight. This meeting is being live broadcast on YouTube for the public to view the proceeding. Please check if your mobile phone are switched off or on silent, and if they are not, please situate now. In the event of a fire alarm sounding, please follow the officers to the master point at the front of the building, and do not use the lift. As mayor, I'm entrusted to maintain decorum of this meeting, and I would like to remind councilors that respect should be shown to all members and officers in the chamber. When someone is speaking, I would ask that other member listen and do not hold their own private conversation, please. Any member who do not respect this will be reminded. As this is an extraordinary meeting, the business today will be confined to considering the specific issue for which it was called. I would therefore like to remind members not to stray away into any other matters. As you may see from time to time, I will be speaking to the officers on the days who will be guiding me through any procedural point. Point of order, I will now hand over to the deputy monitoring officer to deal with point of order to clarify legal points. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Councilors are reminded that a point of order may only relate to an alleged breach of council standing orders or the law. Any councilors raising a point of order must indicate the standing order or the point of law and the way in which they consider it has been broken. Councilors are also reminded that they are only to speak once on an matter and once on an amendment. To set out the statutory background for the consideration of the item on the agenda tonight, under section 15 of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989, the council has a legal duty to allocate seats based on political proportionality rules and once determined that allocation has to be implemented when reasonably practicable. Therefore, the council must make a decision on the report today and give effect to the new revised proportionality to comply with the legal requirements in order for the council to discharge its statutory functions. Thank you. Agenda item one, apologies. Do we have any apologies? Indeed, there are, Mr. Mayor. Apologies for absence have been received from Councillors Atwill, Councillors Bupari, Councillor Gich, Councillor Gale, and Councillor Saligopoulos. Thank you. Are there any other apologies? Councillor Rutherford. Councillor Rutherford. I'm sorry, Councillor Gertzky is just running a little bit like he'd be here by call post. Thank you. Councillor Brookhill. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Apologies from Councillor Buddy Wisinger. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We move on to item two, agenda item two, disclosure of interests. Do any members have any disclosure of interest in relation to the matters which are to be considered in this meeting aside from those members that are Surrey County Councillors? No, there's no hands up. Agenda item three, changes to the allocation of seats for committees. I will call upon Councillor Sexton to propose a motion. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I propose that the Council approve the revised allocations of seats and committees, chairs and vice chairs positions and the named substitutes as set out in supplementary agenda. Is that seconded? Councillor Beeson, do you wish to raise your right to speak? Thank you, Mayor. Could I ask, please, if there could be a named vote on the actual committee allocation, not the chairs, please? Yes. Thank you and I do second, Councillor, the leader's motion. Thank you. Councillor Sexton, do you wish to speak in support of your motion? No, thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you. Do any Councillors wish to speak about the motion? Councillor Sexton, do you wish to sum up? No, thank you, Mr. Mayor. Are the revised allocations agreed? Agreed. No, they are-- [ Inaudible Remark ] Yeah, just-- if you could just take-- just adjourn for a minute once we just consult how we're going to consult and do this. We can just adjourn, just one minute. Councillors, I'm going to adjourn the meeting for a minute just to consult with the officers. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and thank you, Mr. Mayor, for your time today and for all the work that you do. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and thank you, Mr. Mayor, for all the work that you do. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and thank you, Mr. Mayor, for your time today and for all the work that you do. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and thank you, Mr. Mayor, for your time today and for all the work that you do. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and thank you, Mr. Mayor, for your time today and for all the work that you do. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and thank you, Mr. Mayor, for your time today and for all the work that you do. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and thank you, Mr. Mayor, for your time today and for all the work that you do. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and thank you, Mr. Mayor, for your time today and for all the work that you do. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, for your time today and for all the work that you do. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and thank you, Mr. Mayor, for all the work that you do. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and thank you, Mr. Mayor, for your time today and for all the work that you do. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and thank you, Mr. Mayor, for all the work that you do. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and thank you, Mr. Mayor, for all the work that you do. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and thank you, Mr. Mayor, for all the work that you do. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and thank you, Mr. Mayor, for your time today and for all the work that you do. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, for all the work that you do. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and thank you, Mr. Mayor, for all the work that you do. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and thank you, Mr. Mayor, for all the work that you do. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and thank you, Mr. Mayor, for all the work that you do. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and thank you, Mr. Mayor, for all the work that you do. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and thank you, Mr. Mayor, for all the work that you do. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and thank you, Mr. Mayor, for all the work that you do. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and thank you, Mr. Mayor, for all the work that you do. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and thank you, Mr. Mayor, for all the work that you do. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and thank you, Mr. Mayor, for all the work that you do. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and thank you, Mr. Mayor, for all the work that you do. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and thank you, Mr. Mayor, for all the work that you do. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and thank you, Mr. Mayor, for all the work that you do. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and thank you, Mr. Mayor, for all the work that you do. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and thank you, Mr. Mayor, for all the work that you do. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and thank you, Mr. Mayor, for all the work that you do. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and thank you, Mr. Mayor, for all the work that you do. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and thank you, Mr. Mayor, for all the work that you do. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, for all the work that you do. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, for all the work that you do. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, for all the work that you do. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, for all the work that you do. Councillor Binggong. Four. Councillor Bortfahr. Four. Four. Councillor Brennan. Four. Councillor Burrell. Four. Councillor Button. Four. Councillor Kaplan. Abstain. Councillor Chandler. Four. Councillor Clarke. Four. Councillor Doran. Four. Councillor Dunne. Four. Councillor Gibson. Four. Councillor Grant. Abstain. Councillor Kelly-Wally. Four. Councillor Hawkins. Four. Councillor Islam. Four. Councillor Lee. Four. Councillor Mater. Four. Councillor Nichols. Four. Councillor Rutherford. Abstain. Councillor Rubinski. Four. Councillor Sexton. Abstain. Councillor Turner. Four. Councillor Williams. Abstain. Councillor Woodward. Four. Thank you. Our monitoring officer will now advise with a motion. It was carried. The results of the vote are as follows. 23, four, eight, abstain. Therefore, the revised allocation of seats is agreed. Thank you. Thank you. Now we are going to proceed for the vote for the vote of the chairs. And vice chairs. Over to the monitoring officer. We just asked them if they were supportive. Yeah. Do you support a named vote for this motion? No. Are the revised allocation agreed? Agreed. Thank you. Next agenda item. Agenda item four. Appointment of interim monitoring officer. I will call upon Councillor Sexton to propose a motion. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I propose that the council one designate Karen Limmer as monitoring officer. One, delegate Karen Limmer on an interim basis from the 1st of July, 2024. Delegate authority to the chief executive to make an interim appointment as group head of corporate governance. And three, delegate authority to the appointments and appeals committee to designate the next group head of corporate governance as monitoring officer. Thank you. Thank you. Is that seconded? Seconded. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I would like to second the motion. Thank you. Do you wish to reserve your right to speak? No, thank you, Mr. Mayor. Councillor Sexton, do you wish to speak in support of the motion? No, thank you, Mr. Mayor. Do any Councillors wish to speak about the motion? Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Just to say how great it is to see Karen Limmer return to the ranks and I'm sure she will do an excellent job in the interim period. Thank you. Thank you. Do any other Councillors want to speak on the motion? No. No, I can't see any hands. So Councillor Sexton, do you wish to sum up? No, thank you, Mr. Mayor. Does Council agree as to designate Karen Limmer as monitoring officer on an interim basis from the first July 2024? To delegate authority to the chief executive to make an interim appointment as group head of corporate governance and third, delegate authority to the appointment and appeal committee to designate the next group head of corporate governance as monitoring officer? I agree. That's it. Thanks. That's concluded the meeting. So I would say good night to any members of the public watching through the YouTube stream. through the YouTube stream.