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Motions received by the Head of Law and Governance in accordance with the rules in Section 11 of the Constitution by the deadline of 1.00pm on Wednesday 21 September 2022are listed below.

Cross party motions are taken first. Motions will then be taken in turn from the Green Group, Labour Group, Liberal Democrat Group, in that order.

Substantive amendments to these motions must be sent by councillors to the Head of Law and Governance by no later than 10.00am on Friday 30 September 2022so that they may be circulated with the briefing note.

Minor technical or limited wording amendments may be submitted during the meeting but must be written down and circulated.

Council is asked to consider the following motions:

a)    Declaring an ecological emergency (proposed by Cllr Pegg, seconded by Cllr Kerr)

b)    Tackling and Preventing Child Poverty (proposed by Cllr Djafari-Marbini)

c)    Providing funding for ‘Warm Spaces’ in the winter (proposed by Cllr Sandelson, seconded by Cllr Goddard)

d)    Fixing Oxford’s water (proposed by Cllr Jarvis, seconded by Cllr Muddiman)

e)    To Bring Back Water into Public Ownership (proposed by Cllr Hunt, seconded by Cllr Bely-Summers)

f)      Campsfield House (proposed by Cllr Gant)

g)    Plant-based Food and Sustainable Farming (proposed by Cllr Dunne, seconded by Cllr Hollingsworth)

Council had before it seven motions on notice submitted in accordance with Council procedure rules and reached decisions as set out below.

Motions agreed as set out below:

a)    Declaring an ecological emergency (proposed by Cllr Jarvis, seconded by Cllr Kerr) [amendment 1 proposed by Cllr Hunt, seconded by Cllr Thomas] [amendment 2 proposed by Cllr Thomas, seconded by Cllr Hayes]

b)    Tackling and preventing child poverty (proposed by Cllr Djafari-Marbini, seconded by Cllr Nala-Hartley) [amendment proposed by Cllr Smowton, seconded by Cllr Landell-Mills]

Motions not taken as the time allocated for debate had finished:

c)    Providing funding for ‘Warm Spaces’ in the winter (proposed by Cllr Sandelson, seconded by Cllr Goddard) [amendment proposed by Cllr Brown]

d)    Fixing Oxford’s water (proposed by Cllr Jarvis, seconded by Cllr Muddiman)

e)    To bring back water into public ownership (proposed by Cllr Hunt, seconded by Cllr Bely-Summers)

f)      Campsfield House (proposed by Cllr Gant)

g)    Plant-based food and sustainable farming (proposed by Cllr Dunne, seconded by Cllr Hollingsworth)