Issue - meetings

To provide members with an update on Wisbech Port.

AGREED to:

·         note the issues and options outlined, acknowledging and balancing the competing financial and statutory obligations and liabilities identified; and

·         authorise officers to act accordingly to the recommendations agreed and a further report be brought back to the July Cabinet meeting.

Members considered an update and options relating to investment and repair of the suspended quay at Wisbech Port presented by Councillor Boden.

Members made comments, asked questions and received responses.

Proposed by Councillor Boden, seconded by Councillor Mrs French and AGREED to:

·         note the issues and options outlined, acknowledging and balancing the competing financial and statutory obligations and liabilities identified; and

·         authorise officers to act accordingly to the recommendations agreed and a further report be brought back to the July Cabinet meeting.

(Members resolved to exclude the public from the discussion on this item of business on the grounds that it involved the disclosure of exempt information as defined in Paragraphs 3 and 5 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended))

(Councillors Boden, Christy and Tierney declared that they had been contacted by an interested party but had not entered into any discussions with them)