Public Platform: Have your say at scrutiny committees
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Public Platform is an opportunity for people who live or work in the council’s district to put their point of view to a scrutiny committee about matters on its agenda. The first fifteen minutes of each meeting of the scrutiny committees will be available for Public Platform. Public Platform will be conducted as set out below.
- The chairman will begin the meeting by inviting any person (other than a councillor) who is present at the meeting and lives or works in the council’s district to address the committee about any item or items on the agenda for the meeting.
- No person may address the meeting for longer than three minutes, even if he wishes to talk about more than one item on the agenda.
- The committee will listen to a speaker in silence and may address any point raised by a speaker when the item to which it relates is discussed.
- The chairman may require a person addressing the meeting to stop speaking if he considers that the speaker is behaving in a manner that is insulting, offensive or inflammatory.
- The chairman may extend the time allocated for Public Platform if he considers that doing so would assist the committee in its deliberations.
