Decisions made by Rugby Borough Council on 21 July 2015

The conservatives killed off Neil Sandison's Rugby Green Rangers plan. We have not heard the last of this - see http://rugby.lib.dm/a7Z73 .

The Council was authorised to spend six million more this year on capital and revenue.

The Council received the Overview and Scrutiny Management Board's annual report and then voted to scrap the Overview and Scrutiny Management Board. There was no debate at all about what was in the annual report but there was discussion on whether or not to scrap it. For what it is worth the Labour group wanted to keep it and the Liberal Democrat and Conservative groups said it had outlived its usefulness.

The police and the Council's community safety wardens were given the power to order people to stop drinking in parts of the town centre - see http://rugby.lib.dm/a2ZCl .

The town's top tory, Cllr Michael Stokes, was authorised to keep talking to the Labour leaders of the West Midlands metropolitan district councils (like Coventry and Birmingham) who want to set up a West Midlands Combined Authority. (He had started talking to them without the Council's permission so it is not clear why he felt he needed authority to continue talking). A report on the "debate" is here http://rugby.lib.dm/a8ZCz .

Cllr Howard Roberts' motion on air pollution was forwarded to be discussed in committee. The last time this happened to an individual councillor's motion it was kicked around for eight months before being rejected.