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We are asking Cornwall County Council members to do all they can to prevent us being contracted to burn our rubbish for the next 25 years
Before March 31st: Speak with your colleagues, get four other Councillors to write a resolution with you, and to get it to the chairman before the end of MARCH, as officers will do anything they can to prevent this, asking to: STOP THE WHOLE PFI PROCESS UNTIL A DEBATE HAS BEEN HAD AT THE NEXT FULL COUNCIL MEETING ON APRIL 19TH, TO ARRANGE FOR A WASTE STRATEGY TO BE IN PLACE BEFORE CORNWALL'S LARGEST CONTRACT IS LET, BY THE PRESENT COUNCIL WHO COMMENCED THIS PROCESS, NOT A NEWLY VOTED IN COUNCIL AFTER THIS DATE
· After March 31st ask your colleagues to visit and call for an Extraordinary Meeting to debate this whole issue or you will be part of a Council signing up to 25 years incineration without a waste strategy. This will be a huge mistake, denying the requests of REZOLVE for a Strategy and Consultation. http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/Constitution/part04(01).htm gives information on calling Extraordinary Meetings, and 4.1.4 says any five members of the Council, if they have signed a requisition presented to the Chairman of the Council and he/she has refused to call a meeting or has failed to call a meeting within seven days of the presentation of the requisition,can have a meeting.
· Why so urgent? Elections are at the beginning of May. New Members will come in, and Officers will rush this item past them, as they do not want it to be revealed how much money the PFI process has cost already. And that this is leading them on a path to incineration, which the County Council already decided on five years ago, and which could be thrown out with all this money spent without a Waste Strategy.