NOTICE OF COUNCIL MEETING – 17 JULY
2003
Dear Councillor,
A meeting of the Cambridge City Council
will be held in the Council Chamber of the Guildhall on Thursday 17 July 2003
at 6.00pm and I hereby summon you to attend.
Dated 9 July 2003
Yours
faithfully
Chief
Executive
1 TO APPROVE AS A
CORRECT RECORD THE MINUTES OF THE SPECIAL
MEETING ON 22 MAY 2003 AND OF THE MEETING
HELD ON 22 MAY 2003
3 PUBLIC QUESTION TIME
4 TO CONSIDER THE
RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE EXECUTIVE WHICH
ARE FOR ADOPTION:
General
Fund Revenue And Capital Final Outturn For 2002/03 And Budget Carry Forward
Requests (The Leader)
Appendix
A: Overview of Carry Forward Requests 2002/03
Appendix
B: Final Capital Outturn 2002-2003
The Medium Term Strategy is
attached as a separate item (The Leader)
5 TO CONSIDER THE
RECOMMENDATIONS OF COMMITTEES WHICH ARE FOR ADOPTION:
6 TO DEAL WITH
ORAL QUESTIONS
If members wish
to ask questions they should inform the Chief Executive in writing by noon
on the day before the meeting of the full text of the question to be
asked. A list of questions will be
circulated at the meeting, with the order having been determined by the Mayor
drawing names at random.
7 TO CONSIDER THE
FOLLOWING NOTICES OF MOTION, NOTICE OF WHICH HAS BEEN GIVEN BY:
(A) Councillor
Howarth
This Council resolves that Councillor Nimmo-Smith
replaces Councillor
Howarth
as Leader of the Council.
(B) Councillor Nimmo-Smith
This Council resolves that:
(a) Councillor Smart replaces Councillor
Nimmo-Smith as Executive Councillor for
Housing and Health
(b) Councillor Schofield replaces Councillor
Smart as Chair of Strategy Scrutiny
Committee
(c) Councillor Adey replaces Councillor Taylor
as Vice-Chair of Civic Affairs Committee
(d) The following changes are made to
membership of the Council’s committees and other bodies:
(i) Strategy Scrutiny Committee. Councillor Coleman replaces Councillor Smart
(ii)
Housing and Health
Scrutiny Committee. Councillor Pinnington replaces Councillor Smart
(iii)
Civic Affairs Committee.
Councillor Adey replaces Councillor Taylor as a full member. Councillor Reid
replaces Councillor Adey as the Liberal Democrat alternate member.
(iv)
Cambridge Environment
& Transport Area Joint Committee. Councillor Reid replaces Councillor
Howarth as a full member. Councillor Schofield replaces Councillor Reid as the
Liberal Democrat alternate member.
(v)
Chief Officer
Performance Review Working Party. Councillor Nimmo-Smith becomes Chair and
Councillor Howarth becomes Vice-Chair.
(vi)
Equalities Panel.
Councillor Schofield replaces Councillor Smart.
(vii)
Housing Performance
Monitoring Panel. Councillor Ellis-Miller replaces Councillor Smart as a member
of the Panel. Councillor Pinnington replaces Councillor Smart as its
Vice-Chair.
(viii)
Housing Management
Board. Councillor James replaces Councillor Smart.
(C) Councillor C
Rosenstiel
This
Council believes that the current voting system acts as a barrier to
participation
in local democracy. Unjustified outcomes, such as:
*
entrenched one‑party dominance
*
greatly exaggerated majorities
*
parties winning over‑all control with fewer votes than their opponents
* safe
seats with no credible electoral competition
* feed
the belief that voting doesn't make a difference.
In contrast, more representative councils
would be more involving of and
more
accountable to local communities.
The Council notes the Scottish
Executive's proposal to introduce voting
reform
for local government and the Assembly's consideration of similar
reforms
in Wales.
It
therefore calls on the government to take steps to introduce a more
representative
voting system for local government in England.
(D) Councillors
Bagnall and Bradnack
This Council believes that
efforts to combat anti‑social behaviour by its own officers and in
partnership with other agencies are making an important contribution to the
well‑being of the people of Cambridge.
It welcomes the support given to those efforts by the Labour Government
in its legislation on anti‑social behaviour, and regrets that the Liberal
Democrat party has voted against this legislation.
(E ) Councillor Adigun-Harris
This
Council:
(1) notes that Councillor Pinnington is at present
unable to attend Council and committee meetings by reason of her ill‑health;
(2) formally approves, for
the purposes of section 85, Local Government Act, 1972, Councillor Pinnington's
ill‑health as the reason she is unable to attend meetings; and
(3) sends its best wishes to
Councillor Pinnington for an early and full recovery.
8 TO RECEIVE RECORDS OF DECISIONS MADE BY MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE (green pages)
The remaining Records of Decision will be circulated with the Information Minutes at Council.
9 TO RECEIVE THE
MINUTES OF THE FOLLOWING COMMITTEES AND SUB-COMMITTEES WHICH ARE FOR
INFORMATION:
NB
- These will be tabled at the meeting in a separate bound document.
Scrutiny
Committees:
City
Centre Development – 29 April
Commercial & Human Resources - 24 June
Community
Development & Leisure - 3 July
Environment
- 1 July
Housing
& Health - 9 July
Strategy
- 7 July
Strategic
Information Technology – 2 July
Regulatory
Committees:
Civic
Affairs – 26 June
Licensing
- 24 April, 5 June
Standards
- 25 June
THE NEXT MEETING OF THE COUNCIL IS
SCHEDULED FOR THURSDAY 9 OCTOBER 2003 AT 6.00PM. HOWEVER, THIS IS PROVISIONAL AND WILL ONLY BE NECESSARY IF THE
EXECUTIVE HAS TAKEN ANY DECISIONS UNDER SPECIAL URGENCY IN A THREE MONTH PERIOD
FROM 18 JULY.
THE NEXT SCHEDULED MEETING OF THE
COUNCIL AFTER 9 OCTOBER IS THURSDAY 4 DECEMBER 2003 AT 6.00PM.
Information for the
public
You can ask
questions on an issue included on the agenda above, or on an issue which is within
the Council’s powers. If you wish to ask a question related to an agenda item
contact the committee officer (listed below under ‘contact’) before the meeting starts. If you wish to ask a question on a matter
not included on this agenda, please contact the committee officer by 10.00am
the working day before the meeting.
Further details concerning the
right to speak at committee can be obtained from the committee section.
Contact: Gary
Clift, Head of Committee Services on
01223 - 457011