NOTICE OF COUNCIL MEETING – 20 MAY 2004
Dear Councillor,
A meeting of the
Cambridge City Council will be held in the Council Chamber of the Guildhall on Thursday
20 May 2004 at 6.05pm and I hereby summon you to attend.
Dated 12 May 2004
Yours
faithfully
Chief
Executive
1 TO APPROVE AS A CORRECT
RECORD THE MINUTES OF THE MEETING HELD ON 12
FEBRUARY 2004 AND THE EXTRAORDINARY MEETINGS OF 23
FEBRUARY AND 11
MARCH 2004.
2 MAYOR’S ANNOUNCEMENTS
3 PUBLIC QUESTION TIME - see at the foot of the
agenda for details of the scheme
4 TO
CONSIDER THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE EXECUTIVE FOR ADOPTION:
(i) Best Value
Performance Plan - Dummy Version of Website
(ii) Cambridge Local Strategic Partnership – Publication of Community
Strategy
Appendix:
Priority Issues and Actions in Community Strategy
Appendix:
What is the Community Strategy About?
(iii) Corporate Overview – General Fund
Revenue and Capital Budgets, Carry Forwards and Significant Variances for
2003/04
Appendix
A: 2003/04 Estimated Outturn
Appendix
C: Provisional Capital Outturn 2003/04
5 TO CONSIDER THE
RECOMMENDATIONS OF COMMITTEES FOR ADOPTION:
(i)
Code
of Corporate Governance
(iii) Licensing Act 2003 and the Licensing Committee
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:
This Council regrets that the Liberal Democrat
administration of Cambridge City Council has lost the confidence of local
people in its capacity to address anti-social behaviour in the city. It calls on the Executive Member for Housing
and Health to accept responsibility for the maladministration established by
the Local Government Ombudsman in the judgement published 29 April 2004. In the light of those findings, it asks the
Executive Member for Housing and Health to resign her executive position. The Council further resolves that it will:
urgently
(a) Facilitate and simplify complainant access to the
Council in cases of anti-social behaviour;
(b) Include clear and effective policies and procedures
for dealing with tenancy and neighbour disputes in its Anti-social Behaviour
Strategy, and in its tenancy agreements;
(c) Ensure that local members and complainants are kept
informed, within legal constraints on confidentiality, about cases of
anti-social behaviour in which they or their constituents are involved.
(b) Councillors Todd-Jones and Bradnack
This council regrets the decision by the Council’s
Executive Member for Housing and Health to delegate appeals by homeless families
to an outside agency. This delegation infringes the natural right of appellants
to be heard by their elected and accountable representatives and is contrary to
procedures for hearing appeals and petitions elsewhere in the council. It therefore calls on the Executive member
to rescind her decision, and to take appropriate steps to improve member
involvement in the procedures which have existed up till now.
(c) Councillors Durrant and Bradnack
This council regrets the
decision by the Council’s Executive Member for Environment that no provision
will be made in the draft local plan to reserve land for a station at
Addenbrookes Hospital, which will jeopardize important public transport options
for Cambridge. It calls on the
Executive Member to reverse her decision.
8 TO RECEIVE RECORDS OF
DECISIONS MADE BY MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE
·
Commercial
& Human Resources
·
Community
Development & Leisure
·
Strategy
9 TO RECEIVE THE MINUTES OF THE FOLLOWING
COMMITTEES FOR INFORMATION (TO BE TABLED AT THE MEETING):
City Centre Development
24 March
20 April
29 April
27 April
21 April
4 May
4 February
5 May
29 January, 11 March, 22 April
4 February, 3 March, 7 April
31 March
17 March, 22 April
Area Committee North
15 January, 18 March,
24 April
22 January, 25 March,
27 April
5 February, 8 April
5 February, 15 April
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