Issue - meetings

Meeting: 08/12/2022 - Council (Item 161)

Bus Passes (Minute 145 - 6 October 2022)

To receive and consider the recommendations of the Cabinet (Minute 239(a) as an amendment to the following Notice of Motion submitted previously to the Council by Councillor Brazil and referred thereto in accordance with Standing Order 8(2), namely 

 

‘Pensioners can travel free on buses after 9.30am. This council will introduce an enhanced bus pass which will allow those aged 80 and over or registered blind to travel free before 9.30am. A similar scheme is available in Plymouth’.

 

Having had regard to the aforementioned, any factual briefing/position statement on the matter set out in Report (CSO/22/16) and other suggestions or alternatives considered at that meeting the Cabinet subsequently resolved:

 

‘that the County Council keeps the time of free travel the same for all eligible residents as now – from 0930 Monday to Friday’.

Additional documents:

Decision:

Councillor Hart MOVED and Councillor McInnes SECONDED that the Cabinet’s advice be accepted and that the County Council keeps the time of free travel the same for all eligible residents as now – from 0930 Monday to Friday.

 

The amendment in the name of Councillor Hart was then put to the vote and declared CARRIED and subsequently thereafter also CARRIED as the substantive motion.

Minutes:

Pursuant to County Council Minute 145 of 6 October 2022 relating to the Notice of Motion set out below as previously submitted and formally moved and seconded by Councillor Brazil that: 

                       

‘Pensioners can travel free on buses after 9.30am. This council will introduce an enhanced bus pass which will allow those aged 80 and over or registered blind to travel free before 9.30am. A similar scheme is available in Plymouth’.

 

and having had regard to the advice of the Cabinet set out in Minute 239(a) of 9 November 2022:

 

Councillor Hart MOVED and Councillor McInnes SECONDED that the Cabinet’s advice be accepted and that the County Council keeps the time of free travel the same for all eligible residents as now – from 0930 Monday to Friday.

 

The amendment in the name of Councillor Hart was then put to the vote and declared CARRIED and subsequently thereafter also CARRIED as the substantive motion.