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18.

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

19.

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.

20.

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.

21.

Committee Membership Update 2023/2024 pdf icon PDF 29 KB

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

22.

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:

 

 

For

Against

Abstain

Councillor C Adams

 

Councillor C Bain

Councillor L Clarke

 

Councillor B Clarke

Councillor R Claymore

 

Councillor C Dean

Councillor T Clements

 

Councillor J Harper

Councillor G Coates

 

 

Councillor D Cook

 

 

Councillor A Cooper

 

 

Councillor S Doyle

 

 

Councillor T Jay

 

 

Councillor J Jones

 

 

Councillor R Kingstone

 

 

Councillor J Oates

 

 

Councillor B Price

 

 

Councillor R Pritchard

 

 

Councillor S Smith

 

 

Councillor M Summers

 

 

Councillor P Thompson

 

 

Councillor P Thurgood

 

 

Councillor P Turner

 

 

Councillor J Wade

 

 

Councillor J Wadrup

 

 

Councillor L Wood

 

 

 

The motion to suspend the rules was carried

 

After a discussion the following motion was moved

 

RESOLVED

That Council

 

 

Agreed to an all member seminar to discuss current data held on homelessness/vulnerability/voluntary sector within the next 3 weeks for all members to discuss what information is collected and determines and this could form part of the council’s aspiration and could be accommodated within the budget process. 

 

 

(Moved by Councillor J Harper and Councillor D Cook)

 

23.

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)

24.

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.

 

RESOLVED;

That Council

 

Approved the three recommendations in the report. 

 

 

 

(Moved by Councillor P Thompson and seconded by Councillor xxx)