Councillors were slammed for debating an "unnecessary" motion on the issue of face-to-face meetings for more than an hour. A motion by Vale of Glamorgan Council members George Carroll, Russell Godfrey and Rhys Thomas was presented at a full council meeting on Monday, July 18, calling for future meetings to be held in hybrid format.
The councillors claimed that in-person meetings allow for more effective scrutiny and decision making than meetings that are held virtually. However, it was pointed out that the council already has plans to roll out hybrid meetings as soon as enough members have received the necessary training to use the webcast platform Civico.
Leader of the Plaid Cymru group at the Vale Council, Cllr Ian Johnson, slammed councillors for wasting over an hour of the meeting, saying bringing the issue up was "like having a motion on the sun rising tomorrow". "It is going to happen anyway," he said.
