Hi - altering the agenda, as already replied to. To defer something, the councillors needs to propose to defer it and vote to defer it. We did have a chair who kept deferring things when the discussion was not going their way (their pet projects was about to be voted down). Councillors would be there with their hands up to speak, and the chair would wave them away saying 'it has been deferred'. They would turn to the clerk and say, lets defer this, and that was that. Things have changed and now there needs to be a vote to defer it. RAC is correct in that you could just not get around to it, but then the closure of the meeting defers all issues not covered to some other time. The power to close a meeting prior to the end of the agenda is similar. Only the councillors there can agree to close the meeting, not the chair (as noted in the model standing orders).