The Council welcomes the steps taken to explore the continued provision of services and sustainability of jobs through a potential development of partnership arrangements within waste, highways and asset management services.

By exploring all options for the protection and continued provision of key front line services, the Council recognises the pro-active approach of the Conservative administration to ensure the Borough is resilient as it can be in facing future financial challenges.

Council notes the failure of the opposition Labour party to suggest any alternatives demonstrating they have no idea, no clue and no plan for the residents of this Borough.

(Procedural Arrangements – Since the Motions set out at Items 11 (b) and 11 (f) on the Council Summons concerned the same issues, the Mayor, with the consent of the Council, suspended Procedure Rules to enable both these Motions to be moved and seconded, then debated together, before being determined.)

It was moved and seconded as a 1^st Motion that:

“The Council welcomes the steps taken to explore the continued provision of services and sustainability of jobs through a potential development of partnership arrangements within waste, highways and asset management services.

By exploring all options for the protection and continued provision of key front line services, the Council recognises the pro-active approach of the Conservative administration to ensure the Borough is resilient as it can be in facing future financial challenges.

Council notes the failure of the opposition Labour party to suggest any alternatives demonstrating they have no idea, no clue and no plan for the residents of this Borough.”

It was moved and seconded as a 2^nd Motion that:

“The Council is deeply concerned by the Council Executive’s race to privatise whole sections of Council services in Trafford. Not only Waste collection, which is already privatised, they propose, Grounds Maintenance, Street Cleaning, Highways, Street Lighting, Asset Management and much more in Technical Services.

It is clear that the Conservatives have an ideological desire to privatise as much as they can. They have already sold off all the Council Elderly Persons Homes and put the care of our elderly people into the private sector.

This latest privatisation proposal will affect over 300 Trafford Staff, which puts their jobs and terms of conditions and pay at risk. We have seen time and time again when the private sector has taken over public services they fail, for example G4s, SERCO. Even when the privatisation has not failed operationally, we have seen too many instances of extra hidden costs and burdens being placed on the public purse.

We call on the Council to consider reshaping the Highway Services, Grounds Maintenance, Street Cleaning, street Furniture and those Technical Services in LOT 3, with a view to providing these services in-house.”

(Note: During the debate on both Motions, the time being 8.51 p.m., the Mayor indicated that the length of speeches would be restricted to 1 minute per speaker).

Following a debate on all matters, the 1^st Motion was put to the vote and declared carried.

The 2^nd Motion was then put to the vote and declared lost.

RESOLVED: That the Council welcomes the steps taken to explore the continued provision of services and sustainability of jobs through a potential development of partnership arrangements within waste, highways and asset management services.

By exploring all options for the protection and continued provision of key front line services, the Council recognises the pro-active approach of the Conservative administration to ensure the Borough is resilient as it can be in facing future financial challenges.

Council notes the failure of the opposition Labour party to suggest any alternatives demonstrating they have no idea, no clue and no plan for the residents of this Borough.