00:00You've got the right to reply up to three minutes. Thank you.
00:05Party members, let me be blessed.
00:08A vote for this proposal is a vote for an unlawful, misleading and legally indefensible process
00:13and every one of you will be accountable for it.
00:17The consultation is built on a lie, a capacity of 86 pupils in a building that is burned down and no longer exists.
00:24You've been asked to make a strategy decision on the basis of information that is factually impossible.
00:30That alone makes the process unlawful.
00:33The pupil declines manufactured by this council, you restricted admissions by delaying reinstatement for many years
00:40and now claim demand is low, that is not evidence, that is engineering.
00:46The financial justification is invalid.
00:48You created the inflated costs by not reinstating the school and keeping them in long-term temporary accommodation.
00:55Presenting these figures as normal is a misrepresentation.
01:00The diocese, your statutory consultee, has objected in the strongest possible terms.
01:05They were misled, kept uninformed and forced to lure information through the media.
01:12Suppressing their statutory response is a direct breach of the school organisational code.
01:17You have breached your duty of care to employees and children who have been left for three years in a temporary classroom after a traumatic fire with no certainty and no plan.
01:30That's not acting in the best interest of lawyers, it is the complete opposite.
01:34Conflicts of interest within a school organisation group have been declared and yet members still took part and that alone invites legal challenge.
01:44And let's be honest, the consultation is like a smokescreen for pre-planned development on the school land.
01:50The community knows it, the diocese knows it, and now you will be seen to vote in on it.
01:56It even uses other schools' data.
02:00Under the well-being of Future Generations Act, you are personally responsible for protecting the long-term viability of rural communities.
02:08Clothing a school destroys that viability.
02:11You will be breaching the act on record.
02:15So understand this.
02:17If you vote to approve this today, you are voting for a process that is unsafe, unlawful, unethical and open to legal challenge.
02:27A decision built on false information is not legally defensible and the responsibility will rest with every councillor who votes for it.
02:35The only lawful, safe and responsible decision is to reject this proposal completely.
02:41Thank you very much.
02:42Thank you very much.
02:47Of course, we're not...
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