Agenda and minutes
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Apologies for Absence Minutes: Apologies for absence were received from Councillors M Bailey, L Bone, S Daniels
Councillor D Maycock arrived at 18.50pm
Councillor T Clements left the meeting at 19.01 |
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Declarations of Interest To receive any declarations of Members’ interests (pecuniary and non-pecuniary) in any matters which are to be considered at this meeting.
When Members are declaring a pecuniary or non-pecuniary interest in respect of which they have dispensation, they should specify the nature of such interest. Members should leave the room if they have a pecuniary or non-pecuniary interest in respect of which they do not have a dispensation. Minutes: There were no Declarations of Interest. |
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To receive any announcements from the Mayor, Leader, Members of the Cabinet or the Chief Executive Minutes: The Mayor Councillor J Harper made the following announcement
The only announcement I’ve got to make really is concerning the Mayors charity I’ve had one or two people contact me wanting to know how they can contribute to the Mayor’s charity and direct any funds that they manage to garner from wherever. Tracey over here is going to be putting on a message to all of you giving details of how you can contribute to the Mayor’s charity which this year I’m sure you’ll probably know is divided between Tamworth Parish Church and Tamworth District Civic Society, so hopefully that’ll be coming. Incidentally the very first Mayor’s charity event will be taking place this coming Friday at Bolehall Manor Club where we will be having a Soul, Motown and Reggae night. All the proceeds from that will be coming into the Mayor’s charity and it will also be a fabulous night, so hopefully those of you who like all that sort of thing to come along and join us. If anybody requires me to teach you some of the latest dance moves I’m quite willing to stay after the meeting and help you out but otherwise hopefully we’ll see you all there on the day.
The Leader of the Council made the following announcement.
With regard to the current Shadow Homelessness Prevention and Social Housing Sub-Committee I propose that this will become known as the Housing Advisory Panel. The Housing Advisory Panel will be an informal group; a non-decision making body – entirely designed to debate and inform future Portfolio Holder and Cabinet decisions across key council housing services. Having an informal Panel will allow maximum representation from our Council Housing Tenants and Leaseholders to vote on matters impacting them – a statutory requirement in the Councils preparedness for Social Housing Regulation . I am therefore confirming the Portfolio Holder of Housing & Planning will be the Chair, along with Leader(s) (or their representative) from all opposition parties; together with two tenant and leaseholder representatives from the Tenant consultative Group. The details of this will be agreed between the Leaders of all parties before the next Housing Advisory Panel is convened. The Monitoring Officer will incorporate these provisions into the next revision of the Council’s Constitution.”
The Chief Executive made the following announcement
Thank you Mr. Mayor and thank you for your indulgence, firstly on a personal note it’s just a heartfelt thank you to all the good wishes I’ve received from members following the recent surgery. Just to let you know recovery is going okay, not without its challenges, but a lot better than I have been over the last few months. The second item I have and would be very remiss to me not to mention this at the first available Council meeting is to mention our outgoing S151 Officer Stefan Garner who whilst he’s still technically employed by us retired as of last Friday. I would just seek that we just minute Stefan’s contribution to the Council over ... view the full minutes text for item 20. |
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Committee Membership Update 2023/2024 Update from the Mayor confirming Committee Membership for the Municipal Year 2023/2024 Minutes: The following Committee membership for 2023/24 was agreed:
Cabinet Paul Turner Andrew Cooper Thomas Jay Samuel Smith Martin Summers Paul Thompson
Appointments & Staffing Paul Turner Danny Cook Carol Dean Thomas Jay Jan Wadrup
Audit & Governance Daniel Maycock Ben Price Ben Clarke Sarah Daniels Robert Pritchard Peter Thurgood Stephen Doyle
Chief Officer Conduct Martin Summers Craig Adams Liam Bone Paul Turner Daniel Maycock
Corporate Scrutiny Danny Cook Marie Bailey Chris Bain Lee Clarke Rosey Claymore Gareth Coates Stephen Doyle Dan Maycock Ben Price
Health & Wellbeing Chris Bain Rosey Claymore Tina Clements Danny Cook Sarah Daniels Carol Dean Jason Jones Daniel Maycock Jeremy Oates
Infrastructure Safety & Growth Carol Dean Ben Clarke Rosey Claymore Tina Clements Jason Jones Jeremy Oates Ben Price Robert Pritchard Lee Wood
Licensing Ben Price Lee Clarke Tina Clements Gareth Coates Andrew Cooper R Kingstone Thomas Jay Jason Jones Daniel Maycock Peter Thurgood John Wade Jan Wadrup Lee Wood
Nominations & Grants Thomas Jay Marie Bailey John Harper John Wade Jan Wadrup Chris Bain Richard Kingstone
Planning Tina Clements Craig Adams Rosey Claymore Gareth Coates Andrew Cooper Sarah Daniels R Kingstone Daniel Maycock Danny Cook Jason Jones Paul Thompson Peter Thurgood Lee Wood
Statutory Officer Committee Robert Pritchard Marie Bailey Chris Bain Liam Bone Thomas Jay |
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The Council's Vision and Priorities and Vulnerable People (Item to be debated) Minutes: Under rule 4.3.1 Councillor D Cook had requested the Mayor to call for the Extra Ordinary meeting to discuss the Vision and Corporate Priorities and that at the State of Tamworth Debate on 25th October 2022 it was debated that there was no evidence to capture Homelessness, Voluntary Sector, Mental Health and Vulnerability in the Vision and Priorities.
At the State of Tamworth Debate, on 25th October 2022 the following motion was agreed.
That there is a whole Council Seminar discussion to analyse the evidence of the real issues affecting residents of Tamworth and a cross party working group is set up to allow all members to be part of that discussion.
(Moved by Councillor J Oates and seconded by Councillor D Cook)
To date this seminar had not taken place.
Councillor D Cook moved 5 motions. Following legal advice, the motions could not be debated but could be incorporated into the September report.
The Solicitor advised that in the constitution states that procedure rule 4.13 motions without notice, there are no motions on the agenda apart from debating the item. To put forward any motions they would have had to be given on notice. As they haven’t been given on notice the only ones that can be raised are the ones set out constitutionally to be raised without notice and the motions that have been put forward are quite specific motions that would not fall within council procedure rule 4.13. Only certain motions can be put forward at certain meetings and the motions do not appear on the agenda constitutionally the motion couldn’t be accepted. They could be put forward to the September meeting.
The matter can be debated and make motions at a meeting on 18th July or at an extra-ordinary.
The procedure rules can be suspended if 50% of the members present agree.
A motion was put forward to suspend the procedure rules to allow the issue to be debated.
A named vote was called:
The motion to suspend the rules was carried
After a discussion the following motion was moved
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Exclusion of the Press and Public To consider excluding the Press and Public from the meeting by passing the following resolution:-
“That in accordance with the provisions of the Local Authorities (Executive Arrangements) (Meeting and Access to Information) (England) Regulations 2012, and Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the press and public be excluded from the meeting during the consideration of the following business on the grounds that it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Act and the public interest in withholding the information outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information to the public”
At the time this agenda is published no representations have been received that this part of the meeting should be open to the public.
Minutes: “That in accordance with the provisions of the Local Authorities (Executive Arrangements) (Meeting and Access to Information) (England) Regulations 2012, and Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the press and public be excluded from the meeting during the consideration of the following business on the grounds that it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Act and the public interest in withholding the information outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information to the public”
(Moved by Councillor J Harper and seconded by Councillor M Summers) |
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Commercial Lease opportunity, Bolebridge Street Minutes: Report of the Portfolio Holder for Town Centre and Commercial Property to provide information on a potential commercial lease opportunity on Bolebridge Street in Tamworth.
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