At the last full council meeting local resident James Noble spoke for many in our city when he put the following question to the meeting. He said: “Nuclear weapons are not in the council’s mandate, competency or power, therefore allowing such debates and wasting the council’s time makes a large group of residents view it as a joke. “I therefore ask his worship the mayor, should such debates be allowed in future and was it correct for this one to proceed in the first place? I know in the constitution, under the rules and procedures, it says that every motion shall be relevant to a matter in relation to which the council has power.”