Issue - meetings

Minutes

Meeting: 09/05/2024 - Cabinet (Item 274)

Webcast for 09/05/2024 - Cabinet

To approve the minutes of the previous Cabinet meeting on 4 April 2024.

Additional documents:

Webcast for Minutes

Decision:

It was explained that on page 8, the third bullet point on the Fixed Penalty Notice Policy had been amended to state “Fixed penalties can be an effective and visible way of responding to environmental crimes and provide a quicker and proportionate alternative to prosecution through the courts. They allow the person believed to have committed an offence the opportunity to discharge their liability to conviction for that offence by the payment of a fixed penalty”.

RESOLVED that, subject to the amendment on page 8 the minutes of the meeting held on 8 April 2024 be approved as a correct record.

Voting Record

8 For, 0 Against, 0 Abstention, 0 Absent/Did not vote

Minutes:

The minutes of the Cabinet meeting on 4 April 2024 were presented as part of the document pack.

It was explained that on page 8, the third bullet point under the Fixed Penalty Notice Item, an amendment to the wording had been requested so that the wording read as follows:

“Fixed penalties can be an effective and visible way of responding to environmental crimes and provide a quicker and proportionate alternative to prosecution through the courts. They allow the person believed to have committed an offence the opportunity to discharge their liability to conviction for that offence by the payment of a fixed penalty”.