Lord Mayor, on the CSPCA issue, I think overall I am disappointed that this review of the CSPCA hasn’t completely being finished.

There are large questions of the original motion that have not being answered the comparison asked for in the original motion with management and practices nationally hasn’t materialises…there are still governance issues such as the financial management that the Council has still not gone through. We still have not got a set of audited accounts before us. I’m not saying there is anything wrong but I would rather dot all the ‘i’s and cross all the ‘t’s in light of the deficiencies that have been found there in terms of paper work and this is outlined in the report in front of us.

Whereas there have been some positive changes been made, there are a lot of unresolved issues in my opinion.

Overall I’m disappointed with the CSPCA, one of the oldest bodies in looking after stray animals in the city. I’m disappointed with their quite vocal attacks on members of the public who lobbied hard to get where we are this evening. Animal welfare deficiencies were found as revealed in the report before us.

I hope the process of inspections has moved the CSPCA to a better level to start rebuilding its relationship with the general public at large.

I am still disappointed that two councillors are not still appointed to their board of directors. A large amount of tax payer’s money is invested in the facility every year.

With that in mind I am calling for a vote to reject the manager’s report and that the motion be returned to the environment committee so that work on putting two councillors on the board can be completed.