24 April (Part 1) - Secret sessions
If you go to council meetings regularly you will soon come to the conclusion
that they are held solely to satisfy statutory requirements and the real
business is done behind closed doors. Some committee chairmen are even honest enough, or
maybe that should be stupid enough, to spill the beans
as happened last January.
The revised Constitution gives some clues as to the procedure on Page 287 of
Volume 1. It says that the rules on public scrutiny fly out of the window if secret discussions are at least 28 days before a ‘key decision is taken’.
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