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Contact: Jane Garrard, Senior Governance Officer Email: jane.garrard@nottinghamcity.gov.uk
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Apologies for absence Minutes: Councillor Cheryl Barnard – leave Councillor Kevin Clarke - leave Councillor Sue Johnson – medical appointment Councillor Carole McCulloch - leave |
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Declarations of interests Minutes: None. |
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To elect a Lord Mayor and appoint a Sheriff for the ensuing year Minutes: RESOLVED to
(1) elect Councillor Rosemary Healy as the Lord Mayor until the next annual meeting of Council, as nominated by Councillor Leslie Ayoola and seconded by Councillor Sajid Mohammed; and
(2) appoint Councillor Patience Ifediora as the Sheriff until the next annual meeting of Council, as nominated by Councillor Graham Chapman and seconded by Councillor Neghat Khan. |
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To note the appointment of the Lord Mayor's Chaplain Minutes: The Lord Mayor will notify Council of her appointment of Lord Mayor’s Chaplain at the Council meeting on 8 July 2019. |
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Election of councillors - 2 May 2019 PDF 199 KB Minutes: RESOLVED to note the election of councillors to their wards as follows:
Aspley Ward Councillor Graham Chapman Councillor Patience Ifediora Councillor Carole McCulloch
Basford Ward Councillor Salma Mumtaz Councillor Nick Raine Councillor Linda Woodings
Berridge Ward Councillor Angela Kandola Councillor Toby Neal Councillor Shuguftah Quddoos
Bestwood Ward Councillor Jay Hayes Councillor Georgia Power Councillor Audra Wynter
Bilborough Ward Councillor Phil Jackson Councillor Rebecca Langton Councillor Wendy Smith
Bulwell Ward Councillor Maria Joannou Councillor Jane Lakey Councillor Ethan Radford
Bulwell Forest Ward Councillor Cheryl Barnard Councillor Eunice Campbell-Clark Councillor Samuel Gardiner
Castle Ward Councillor Angharad Roberts Councillor Sam Webster
Clifton East Ward Councillor Kevin Clarke Councillor Kirsty Jones Councillor Maria Watson
Clifton West Ward Councillor Andrew Rule Councillor Roger Steel
Dales Ward Councillor Gul Khan Councillor Neghat Khan Councillor David Mellen
Hyson Green and Arboretum Ward Councillor Merlita Bryan Councillor Azad Choudhry Councillor Jawaid Khalil
Leen Valley Ward Councillor Audrey Dinnall Councillor Mohammed Saghir
Lenton and Wollaton East Ward Councillor Pavlos Kotsonis Councillor Sally Longford Councillor David Trimble
Mapperley Ward Councillor Leslie Ayoola Councillor Rosemary Healy Councillor Sajid Mohammed
Meadows Ward Councillor Michael Edwards Councillor Nicola Heaton
Radford Ward Councillor Hassan Ahmed Councillor Anne Peach
Sherwood Ward Councillor AJ Matsiko Councillor Lauren O’Grady Councillor Adele Williams
St Anns Ward Councillor Sue Johnson Councillor Chantal Lee Councillor Dave Liversidge
Wollaton West Ward Councillor Steve Battlemuch Councillor Zafran Khan Councillor Cate Woodward
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To elect a Leader of the Council for a 4 year term Minutes: RESOLVED to elect Councillor David Mellen as Leader of the Council for a 4 year term ending in May 2023, as nominated by Councillor Sam Webster and seconded by Councillor Wendy Smith. |
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Executive Appointments, Remits and First Meetings 2019/20 PDF 193 KB Additional documents:
Minutes: The Leader of the Council presented a report setting out his appointment of Deputy Leader, Portfolio Holders and Executive Assistants; and details of Executive committees and their terms of reference and first meeting dates.
RESOLVED to note
(1) the appointment of Councillor Sally Longford as Deputy Leader
(2) the appointment of Portfolio Holders and Executive Assistants, and their roles and responsibilities as detailed below and in Appendix 2 of the report:
Portfolio Holder Appointments
Executive Assistant Appointments
(3) the terms of reference for Executive committees, and related changes to the Constitution, as set out in Appendix 3 to the report
(4) the first meeting dates for Executive committees as detailed below:
(5) the appointments, including substitutes where applicable, to Executive committees as detailed below:
Executive Board Councillor David Mellen (Chair) Councillor Sally Longford Councillor Cheryl Barnard Councillor Eunice Campbell-Clark Councillor Neghat Nawaz Khan Councillor Rebecca Langton Councillor Dave Trimble Councillor Sam Webster Councillor Adele Williams Councillor Linda Woodings
Commissioning and Procurement Sub Committee Councillor Sam Webster (Chair) Councillor Cheryl Barnard Councillor Eunice Campbell-Clark Councillor Sally Longford Councillor Adele Williams
East Midlands Shared Services Joint Committee Councillor Sam Webster (Chair) Councillor Eunice Campbell-Clark
Substitutes: Councillor Linda Woodings Councillor Neghat Nawaz Khan Councillor Rebecca Langton Councillor Dave Trimble Councillor Adele Williams Councillor Cheryl Barnard
Executive Board Strategic Regeneration Committee Councillor David Mellen (Chair) Councillor Sally Longford Councillor Neghat Nawaz Khan Councillor Linda Woodings Councillor Adele Williams Councillor Rebecca Langton
City of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Economic Prosperity Committee Councillor David Mellen
Substitute: Councillor Sam Webster
(6) the executive delegations as set out in the Scheme of Delegation in the Council’s Constitution. |
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Appointments, Remits and First Meetings of Committees and Joint Bodies 2019/20 PDF 98 KB Additional documents:
Minutes: The Lord Mayor presented a report detailing the terms of reference, first meeting dates and appointments to Council committees and joint bodies.
RESOLVED to
(1) agree the terms of reference for Council committees and joint bodies as set out in Appendix 1 of the report and amend the Constitution to reflect changes to the terms of reference for Area Committees, Audit Committee and Greater Nottingham Light Rapid Transit Advisory Committee and other minor administrative changes
(2) agree the first meeting dates for Council committees and joint bodies as set out below:
(3) appoint the membership, and where applicable substitutes, for Council committees and joint bodies as set out in Appendix 3 to the report
(4) appoint the chairs for Council committees and joint bodies as set out in Appendix 3 to the report
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Questions from citizens PDF 5 KB Minutes: Travel for disabled citizens
DS asked the following question of the Leader of the Council:
Will the new Leader Councillor Mellen and the new Labour Cabinet order an immediate review of the Mobility Bus Pass Policy with a view to reinstating the universal 24/7 nature of the Mobility Bus Holders?
Councillor David Mellen replied as follows:
Thank you Lord Mayor and can I thank the citizen for this question. Since the introduction of the English National Concessionary Travel Scheme, Nottingham City Council has offered more than the statutory requirements for concessionary travel for the people of Nottingham. This included additional pre-9:30am and post-11pm free travel for mobility card holders. As part of the budget process for 2018/19 the Council proposed a budget saving of £100,000 per year, and in September 2018 free travel for mobility card holders before 9:30am and post-11:30pm was withdrawn. In taking the decision to remove the additional scheme, which has been entirely funded by the Council, we agreed to investigate alternative proposals that might mitigate the impact of the change for those suffering hardship. However, following significant and continued cuts to our budget, the Council stood by its decision to withdrawn the concession for mobility card holders. Colleagues across the Chamber will know that since 2010, Nottingham’s Core Settlement has fallen by £145 million and since 2013, Nottingham’s Revenue Support Grant has fallen from £126 million to just £25 million next year. In that same period, this Council has made cumulative savings of more than £267 million to deal with not just the cuts in government funding, but also the effects of a changing demography whilst maintaining core services. This was a difficult decision but we continue to do our best to do what we can and to use our resources efficiently. Notwithstanding all that, I am prepared to look at the decision again and work alongside the Portfolio Holder to review the policy.
Travel for disabled citizens
DS asked the following question of the Leader of the Council:
Why has the Council said that it cannot use reserves when it has quite rightly used reserves to fund the Marcus Garvey Centre for 2019/20, and has this set and established a precedent meaning that these same reserves can be used to fund the equally important 24/7 Mobility Passes going forward?
Councillor David Mellen replied as follows:
Thank you Lord Mayor. I would like to thank again the citizen for the question. In my previous response I confirmed my commitment to work alongside the Portfolio Holder and review the decision to remove the concessionary scheme for mobility card holders. At this stage, it would be premature to confirm the scope or speculate on any possible outcome, but you have my commitment that a meaningful and robust review will take place within 3 months. |
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Petitions from Councillors on behalf of citizens Minutes: Councillor Gul Khan submitted a petition regarding reinstallation of a barrier to Kingston Court Car Park. |
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To confirm the minutes of the last meeting of Council held on 4 March 2019 PDF 1 MB Minutes: The minutes of the meeting held on 4 March 2019 were agreed as an accurate record and signed by the Chair. |
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To receive official communications and announcements from the Leader of the Council and/or the Chief Executive Minutes: Ian Curryer, Chief Executive, reported the following:
New councillors I would like to
welcome the 24 new councillors and returning councillors who were
elected to represent wards in the City in the local elections on 2
May 2019. Nottingham Performing Arts Library Service The
Nottingham Performing Arts Library Service won the Excellence Award
for Music Libraries 2019 at the International Association of Music
Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centre, UK and Ireland Awards
for its innovative work to provide music and drama groups with an
outstanding, cost-effective regional loans service for music scores
and play scripts. Former Councillor Pat Ferguson It is with great
sadness that I report the death of former Councillor Pat Ferguson
on 18 March 2019. She was elected to
represent the Clifton North ward in 2014 and stood down in
2018. Honorary Alderman Brian Markin I am sad to report the
death of Alderman Brian Markin in March 2019. He was elected to represent the then Robin Hood
ward between 1995 and 2003 and subsequently the Leen Valley ward
from 2003 to 2006. Former Lord Mayor’s Sergeant Neil Smith I also sad to report
that Neil Smith, former Lord Mayor’s Sergeant, passed away in
April. Councillors Battlemuch, Edwards and Saghir spoke in tribute to former Councillor Pat Ferguson, Honorary Alderman Brian Markin and former Lord Mayor’s Sergeant Neil Smith respectively and a minute’s silence was held. |
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Questions from Councillors - to the City Council's lead Councillor on the Nottinghamshire and City of Nottingham Fire and Rescue Authority Minutes: None. |
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Additional documents: Minutes: Housing evictions
Councillor Toby Neal asked the following question of the Portfolio Holder for Housing, Planning and Heritage:
Does the Portfolio Holder for Housing, Planning and Heritage welcome the government’s announcement of a consultation on abolishing section 21 no fault evictions?
Councillor Linda Woodings replied as follows:
Thank you Lord Mayor and can I start by congratulating both yourself Lord Mayor and our Sheriff on your election, and our new Leader and Deputy Leader on their election. I look forward to working with all of my new councillor colleagues as well and congratulate you on your election, but I especially want to mention the newly elected women councillors that mean we are now, in my understanding, the first majority female council in the country.
So thank you for this question. The private rented sector has grown substantially over the past 20 years and is now home to a fifth of households in the United Kingdom, that’s 4.7 million people. So many more people can now expect to live in the private rented sector for longer and more importantly, 1.7 million of these households contain almost 3 million children. However, the rules and regulations that underpin the private rented sector have not kept pace with this growth. This means tenants in private rented homes can face unaffordability, poor conditions, a lack of security of tenure and a limited control over the place that they want to call home. Meanwhile, a perfect storm of cuts to benefits and a national shortage of homes leading to increased rents have led to an imbalanced relationship between landlord and renter with all the power with the landlords, some of whom are unscrupulous. In truth, Britain’s broken rented housing sector needs to become more like Germany’s, where more than half the population enjoy secure and mostly happy private tenancies averaging 11 years. By contrast, in Britain tenancies average just 30 months.
So yes, I do welcome the consultation over the abolition of Section 21 No Fault Evictions and I can confirm that the Council will submit a response. In addition to that, I am determined that the voices of the people who have suffered no fault evictions, including revenge evictions, will be put forward as part of the evidence as well. Unfortunately colleagues, I have a level of cynicism about this announcement, specifically its timing. It was announced just two weeks before the local elections. Was this possibly a last minute, desperate, vote-catching policy by the Conservative Government, who then went on to lose more than 1300 seats? Too little, too late, especially when you consider that the Government conducted an almost identical consultation last August, but took no action. Also, this commitment is only to hold a consultation and we know from our own experience in introducing selective licensing that the landlord lobby is well-connected, well-organised and well-funded, and so I fear an eventual watering down of the fine words which accompanied this announcement.
That said we welcome that there is, on the face of ... view the full minutes text for item 14. |
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Decisions taken under urgency procedures PDF 206 KB Minutes: The Leader of the Council submitted a report detailing decisions taken under procedures that include exemption from Overview and Scrutiny Call In Procedure Rules and Special Urgency Access to Information Rules.
RESOLVED to note
(1) that there were no urgent decisions (exempt from call in) to be reported; and
(2) the Key Decisions taken under special urgency procedures:
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Future Meeting Dates To agree to:
(1) meet at 2pm on the following Mondays: · 8 July 2019 · 9 September 2019 · 11 November 2019 · 13 January 2020 · 9 March 2020
(2) hold an Extraordinary Council meeting on 8 July 2019 at the rising of the Ordinary Council meeting on that day to appoint Honorary Alderpersons Minutes: RESOLVED to:
(1) meet on the following Mondays at 2pm: i. 8 July 2019 ii. 9 September 2019 iii. 11 November 2019 iv. 13 January 2020 v. 9 March 2020
(2) hold an Extraordinary Council meeting on 8 July 2019 at the rising of the Ordinary Council meeting on that day to appoint Honorary Aldermen and Alderwomen. |
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ADOPTION OF THE PLANS SET OUT IN THE LABOUR MANIFESTO AS THE BASIS OF COUNCIL POLICIES PDF 189 KB Report of the Leader Additional documents: Minutes: The Lord Mayor agreed that this item, although not on the agenda, could be considered as a matter of urgency in accordance with Section 100B(4)(b) of the Local Government Act 1972 to enable work to commence as soon as possible in developing the Council Plan and associated policies.
The Leader of the Council presented a report setting out the Labour Manifesto and proposing that the plans set out in that Manifesto are adopted as the basis of Council policies.
RESOLVED to adopt the plans in the Nottingham Labour Manifesto 2019 as a basis of Council policies for the current term. |