To make all our lives simpler and in particular to make constituency consultation practical, could we desist from the recent practice of posting multiple contradictory motions on the same topic before a meeting ?It is less than helpful to have motions that have not even been seconded placed on the wiki and then discussed at a meeting. This is especially true when the same proposer has posted other motions on the same topic ! If a motion has any merit, then it should have found at least one other poor soul on Council to support it before it makes an agenda. To seek a seconder at the meeting itself, detracts from our credibility as a decision making body. Too often a motion seems to have been seconded at the last moment more on the grounds of "I like so and so and thus I will be nice and support their motion", rather than based on a rational view of the content of the motion itself as discussed with constituents. Focus, efficiency, progress, - let these be our resolutions for 2009. Philip