Agenda and minutes

To approve as a correct record the minutes of the Council Meeting held on 26 February 2015.

A period not exceeding three minutes is allowed for the presentation of a petition or deputation provided that no such petition or deputation is in relation to:

·               Matters relating to individual Council Officers, or

·               Matters relating to current or pending legal proceedings

To receive announcements from:

a)        The Mayor

b)        Leader of the Council

c)        Members of the Cabinet

d)        Chair of Committees

e)        Head of Paid Service

To waive Council Procedure Rules to allow the relevant officersto address the Council in respect of item 11 and 13 on the agenda.

To receive the report of the Leader of the Council, which seeks approval for the appointment of a Managing Director and Head of Paid Service for Gloucester City Council.

To receive the report of the Cabinet Member for Regeneration and Culture which seeks endorsement of the progress of the City Plan programme and associated budget requirements of £141,000 over the next three financial years.

To receive the report of the Cabinet Member for Performance and Resources which seeks approval for the Treasury Management Strategy and prudential indicators and which asks Council to note Treasury activities.

To receive the report of the Cabinet Member for Performance and Resources which seeks approval for the Council’s Pay Policy Statement for 2015/16.

To receive the report of the Cabinet Member for Performance and Resources which provides the background and rationale underlying the proposals to form an Internal Audit and Risk Management Shared Service between Gloucester City Council, Stroud District Council and Gloucestershire County Council. 

To receive the report of the Audit, Risk and Assurance Manager on behalf of the Corporate Governance Group which seeks approval for revisions to the Anti-Fraud and Corruption policies the Council has in place.

To receive the report of the Cabinet Member for Housing, Health and Leisure which informs Members about the powers available to the Council under the Animal Welfare Act 2006.

To receive the report of the Cabinet Member for Communities and Neighbourhoods concerning the award of the contract  for the upgade of the CCTV system, camera IO network, maintenance, public WiFi and 4G coverage.

PLEASE NOTE: Appendix 1 to this report contains exempt material as defined in Paragraph 3 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972 as amended. If Members wish to discuss the exempt material it will be necessary to pass a resolution to exclude the press and public.

(1)       MOVED BY COUNCILLOR PULLEN

“This Council believes that young people are important and recognises the positive contribution that they make to our City.

Young people have ideas, views and opinions, not only about things that are important to them personally, but about issues that affect their communities, their City and the wider world. 

Young people have a contribution to make to the life and development of this City, yet there is no process or structure that enables this Council to communicate with and learn from the views that young people have.

In order to value young people and benefit from the opinions and ideas they have, this Council is asked to establish a Gloucester City Youth Council.

Such a body would be important as not only would young people be able to influence the future direction this City but also have an impact on issues that matter to them and their City now”.

(2)       MOVED BY COUNCILLOR TAYLOR

            “This Council:

(1)      recognises the importance that residents and businesses in Gloucester place on having high-speed broadband availability;

(2)      supports the continued significant investment designed to 'retro-fit' its availability to homes and businesses throughout the City as quickly as possible;

(3)      notes with concern that brand new properties, even on large scale developments, both residential and employment, are being built and sold without a ready superfast broadband capability;

(4)      therefore resolves to work with businesses, developers, potential suppliers of broadband capability to make it a requirement for new developments, especially on large scale residential developments, to be able to access superfast broadband from the day they are first sold.

(5)      if necessary will call on the Government to empower Councils through legislation to make this a statutory requirement of the planning process, to ensure ready access to superfast broadband.”

(3)       MOVED BY COUNCILLOR PATEL

            “This Council:

(1)       welcomes the review of waste and recycling services, initiated by the Cabinet, designed to expand the range of materials collected from the doorstep, increase recycling rates throughout the city and reduce the amount of waste going to landfill;

(2)       notes that some areas of the city, such as Barton & Tredworth, have many properties with very limited space for residents to be able to store receptacles for domestic waste and recycling;

(3)       requests that the working group consider what arrangements can be put in place to ensure people in these areas are supported and not disadvantaged by any future changes to the waste and recycling service and that problems such as flytipping in these areas are recognised and tackled robustly.”

(4)       MOVED BY COUNCILLOR RANDLE

            “This Council:

(1)          believes that Gloucester should be a pet-friendly city;

(2)          notes the excellent work done by the Council and its partners to promote responsible dog ownership, including the provision of dog bins and its partnership with the Dogs Trust to promote micro-chipping in advance of new legislation requiring it;

(3)          notes the positive role in society that pet owners can play through initiatives like Paws on Patrol;

(4)  ...  view the full agenda text for item 106.

To resolve:-

“That the press and public be excluded from the meeting during the following item of business on the grounds that it is likely, in view of the nature of business to be transacted or the nature of the proceedings, that if members of the press and public are present during consideration of this item there will be disclosure to them of exempt information as defined in Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972 as amended”.

Agenda Item No.               Description of Exempt Information

17                                           Paragraph 3: information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the Authority holding that information).

To receive the exempt report of the Cabinet Member for Regeneration and Culture.