NOTICE OF ANNUAL COUNCIL MEETING – 24
JUNE 2004
Dear Councillor,
A meeting of the Cambridge City Council
will be held in the Council Chamber of the Guildhall on Thursday 24 June 2004
at 11.00am and I hereby summon you to attend.
Dated 16 June 2004
Yours
faithfully
Chief
Executive
1. TO ELECT A
MAYOR FOR THE MUNICIPAL YEAR 2004/2005
2. TO ELECT A
DEPUTY MAYOR FOR THE MUNICIPAL YEAR 2004/2005
3. TO APPROVE AS
A CORRECT RECORD THE MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE
COUNCIL AND THE SPECIAL
MEETING OF COUNCIL BOTH HELD ON 20 MAY 2004
4. TO NOTE THE
RETURNING OFFICER’S REPORT THAT THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN ELECTED TO THE OFFICE
OF COUNCILLOR:
Abbey John
Ernest Durrant, Caroline Julie Hart, Richard John Smith
Arbury Rhodri
Mark James, Anthony Jack Hymans, Timothy Derek Ward
Castle Marie-Louise
Holland, John Hipkin, Simon Philip Jonathan Kightley
Cherry Hinton Robert
Paul Dryden, Russell Neil McPherson, Eric William Barrett-Payton
Coleridge Bernaneth
Magdaline Callaghan, Jeremy Benstead, Lewis Herbert
East Chesterton Jennifer
Anne Bailey, Jennifer Susan Liddle, Donald Marshall Adey
Kings Hedges Louise
Ann Downham, Primrose Elizabeth Hughes and Maria Elizabeth Bell
Market Joye
Elizabeth Rosenstiel, Michael Shepherd Dixon, Colin Richard Rosenstiel
Newnham Sian
Tudor Reid, Julie Elizabeth Smith, Roderick Giles Cantrill
Petersfield Thomas
Benjamin Bradnack, Victoria Phillips, Kevin Wayne Blencowe
Queen Edith’s Amanda
Joan Taylor, Richard John Stebbings, Alan Reginald Harold Baker
Romsey Catherine
Helen Lindsay Smart, Iain James Coleman, Sarah Freeland Ellis-Miller
Trumpington Philippa
Mary Slatter, Edrich Adigun-Harris, Sheila Barri Churchill
West Chesterton Michael
Ian Nimmo-Smith, Diane Kay Armstrong, Raymond Alan Boyce
5. TO NOTE THE
APPOINTMENT OF THE MAYOR’S CHAPLAIN FOR THE ENSUING YEAR
6. TO NOTE THE
APPOINTMENT OF THE MAYOR’S CADET FOR THE ENSUING YEAR
7. TO PASS A
RESOLUTION OF THANKS TO THE OUTGOING MAYOR AND MAYORESS
8. MAYOR’S
ANNOUNCEMENTS
9. TO ELECT FROM
AMONG THE MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL FOUR BAILIFFS OF THE CITY FOR THE MUNICIPAL
YEAR 2004/2005
(There will be a break for lunch for
three quarters of an hour.)
10. TO CONSIDER THE
RECOMMENDATIONS OF COMMITTEES WHICH ARE FOR ADOPTION:
Review of decision making working party
The Constitution: amendments to Executive Councillor for
Environment
Amendments to Members’ Allowances
Election of Leader and the Executive Councillors
Appointment of Committees 2004/05
Appointment of Chairs and Vice-Chairs 2004/05
11. ANNUAL
STATEMENT
Group Leaders
will each have the opportunity to speak for not more than 15 minutes on their
Group’s priorities for action and objectives for the forthcoming municipal year
in the following order:
Councillor
Nimmo-Smith
Councillor
Bradnack
|
The Annual Statement of the Liberal Democrat Group is appended to this summons. |
12. ADOPTION
OF ANNUAL POLICIES AND PRIORITIES
The scheme for
Annual Statements provides that the Statement of the Leader of the largest
group on the Council shall be deemed to be a motion for adoption. It may
therefore be debated and amendments proposed after which it shall be put to the
vote and, if carried, shall be adopted as Council policy for the municipal
year. The Council will therefore consider the Annual Statement of the Liberal
Democrat Group as a motion for adoption.
If the adopted
Annual Statement contains proposals which fall outside the Council’s budgetary
or policy framework, the proposals shall not be acted upon until there has been
a report to the relevant scrutiny committee(s) and executive councillor(s) in
the normal way and approval at a subsequent meeting of the Council.
13. PUBLIC QUESTION
TIME
14. RECOMMENDATION
FROM THE EXECUTIVE COUNCILLOR FOR PLANNING & TRANSPORT – LOCAL PLAN:
REDEPOSIT DRAFT
Errata
to Local Plan: Redeposit Draft
|
Members are requested to bring with
them the Local Plan Redeposit draft which had been circulated earlier. |
15. REPORT
OF THE MONITORING OFFICER ABOUT OMBUDSMAN FINDING OF MALADMINISTRATION WITH
INJUSTICE
Ombudsman
Report – Record of Executive Decision
16. 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.
17. TO CONSIDER THE
FOLLOWING NOTICE OF MOTION, NOTICE OF WHICH HAS BEEN GIVEN BY:
(a)
Councillor Bradnack
This
Council accepts the finding in the Comprehensive Performance Assessment Inspectors’
report that the way it makes and scrutinizes its decisions is too complicated,
does not deliver effective scrutiny, and leave members uncertain of their
roles.
In
the light of the research subsequently carried out by BMG for the Council, the
Council agrees that the processes would be improved by adding the following to
the 7 principles which it has sought to fulfill in making and scrutinizing
decisions.
18. TO NOTE THE
RECORD OF MEMBERS’ ATTENDANCES AT COMMITTEE, SUB-COMMITTEE AND WORKING PARTY
MEETINGS DURING 2003/2004
To
be circulated at the meeting.
THE NEXT MEETING OF THE COUNCIL IS
SCHEDULED FOR THURSDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 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