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Council
20 Apr 2017 - 19:00 to 19:18
Scheduled
Council Chamber
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Agenda

Standard Items
1 APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE
To receive any apologies for absence. 


1

 

Apologies for absence were received from Councillors Cutting and Rodwell.

 

 

2 DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST

You have a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest in a matter to be discussed if it relates to something on your Register of Interests form. You must declare the interest and leave the room while the matter is dealt with.

You have a Personal Interest in a matter to be discussed if it affects
•    your well being or financial position
•    that of your family or close friends
•    that of a club or society in which you have a management role
•    that of another public body of which you are a member to a greater extent than others in your ward.
You must declare a personal interest but can speak and vote on the matter.

Whenever you declare an interest you must say why the interest arises, so that it can be included in the minutes. 

2

 

There were no Declarations of Interest declared at the meeting.

 

 

3 PUBLIC QUESTION TIME

To consider the following question from Mr J Cannell, president Great Yarmouth and District TUC:-

 

"In the light of the decision by the local Conservative MP to decline an invitation from Great Yarmouth Borough Council to attend a public meeting on the impact of Universal Credit, in favour of his Westminster bubble bolthole, when is Great Yarmouth Borough Council going to hold the public meeting to discuss the impact of the Governments Universal Credit trial?" 

 

3

 

The Committee considered the following question from Mr J Cannell, President Great Yarmouth and District TUC :-

 

"In the light of the decision by the local Conservative MP to decline an invitation from Great Yarmouth Borough Council to attend a public meeting on the impact of Universal Credit, when is Great Yarmouth Borough Council going to hold the public meeting to discuss the impact of the Governments Universal Credit trial?" 

 

The Leader reported that the Council are regularly engaged in meetings with interested Stakeholders regarding the impact of Universal Credit. The Universal Credit system is administered by the DWP and the Council facilitates fortnightly meetings with Job Centre Plus and advise agencies to highlight local issues and in addition Great Yarmouth staff meet with the Local Authority Engagement Group centrally to feedback progress. The Council is dedicated to trying to assist with the implementation of Universal Credit and Council Officers have regular attendance at the Eastern Landlords association meetings and provide feedback for all sectors.

 

DWP organise a number of  early engagement workshops at the beginning of the Universal Credit roll out and a formal request will be made by the Council for DWP to repeat this process with an opportunity to update on the current situation. The Universal Credit update enquiry has received verbal feedback at a session with Lord Freud and the written responses which were provided included Great Yarmouth are currently being pulled together into a report but as yet there is no publication date set.

 

Great Yarmouth were also interviewed separately regarding the Great Yarmouth specific issues and we have requested a copy of that report once finalised. When this report is ready we will bring it forward to a public meeting either at the Policy and Resources Committee or Full Council.

 

The motion was to "call upon this Council to write to Brandon Lewis MP and request that he attends a Public meeting (to be arranged) where agencies and those affected are encouraged to voice their own experience of this new benefit". The Council did write to Brandon Lewis to make this request, and he offered to help with individual cases where Councillors feel unable to help.

 

There is no requirement for the Council to hold a separate Public meeting from all the meetings it currently holds which are in public.

 

In accordance with the Constitution, Mr Cannell was then entitled to ask a supplementary question as follows :- 

 

" Have you looked at the economic effect Universal Credit is having on the Borough, and the decline on Businesses and how many agencies have you spoken with including whether any contact has been made with the TUC Unemployed Workers Centre?"

 

In response the Leader reported that the effect on the Borough was unknown specifically linked to Universal Credit. He stated that we had seen an upturn in business operation throughout the Borough. The Leader stated that the Council is dealing with Universal Credit on a one to one basis and he felt that it was wrong of the TUC to call a Public meeting as he felt many of the Universal Credit issues could be dealt with on a individual basis by Officers of the Council.

 

4 pdf MINUTES (85Kb)

To confirm the Minutes of the meeting held 21 February 2017.

 

4

 

The Mayor presented the Council minutes of the meeting held on the 21 February 2017.

 

Proposer : Councillor Plant 

 

Seconder : Councillor B Coleman

 

That the minutes of the Council meeting held on the 21 February 2017 be confirmed.

 

CARRIED

 

 

5 APPOINTMENTS TO OUTSIDE BODIES

a) Sentinel Leisure Trust

Council is advised that Councillors Stenhouse and Walch have resigned from the above Trust, and Members will be asked to consider the appointment of replacements to this Trust.

 

5

 

a) Sentinel Leisure Trust

 

Council was advised that Councillor Stenhouse and Walch had resigned from the above trust and Members were asked to consider the appointment of replacements to this Trust.

 

Proposer : Councillor Plant 

 

Seconder : Councillor Carpenter 

 

That consideration of the appointment of replacements to the Sentinel Leisure trust be deferred until the Council meeting on the 16 May 2017.

 

CARRIED

 

 

6 pdf SERVICE COMMITTEES - DECISIONS LIST FOR THE PERIOD 7 FEBRUARY 2017 TO 11 APRIL 2017 (34Kb)

Decisions made by the Service Committees for the above period are attached.

 

6

 

Council received for information the decision list for Service Committees for the period 7 February to 12 April 2017.

 

Proposer : Councillor Plant

 

Seconder : Councillor Reynolds

 

That the Service Committees decision list for the period 7 February to 12 April 2017 be received.

 

CARRIED

 

 

7 ANY OTHER BUSINESS
To consider any other business as may be determined by the Chairman of the meeting as being of sufficient urgency to warrant consideration.

8 EXCLUSION OF PUBLIC
In the event of the Committee wishing to exclude the public from the meeting, the following resolution will be moved:-

"That under Section 100(A)(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the public be excluded from the meeting for the following item of business on the grounds that it involved the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraph 1 of Part I of Schedule 12(A) of the said Act."

9 SERVICE COMMITTEES - CONFIDENTIAL DECISIONS LIST FOR THE PERIOD 7 FEBRUARY 2017 TO 11 APRIL 2017
THANKS TO MAYOR
7

 

The Leader recorded his thanks and appreciation to his Worship the Mayor in his role as Chairman of the Council for the 2016/17 Municipal Year. The Leaders commented were fully endorsed by the Council.

 

In response, his Worship the Mayor recorded his thanks to all Members for their support during his year as Chairman of the Council.

 

 

Attendance

Attended - Other Members
Name
No other member attendance information has been recorded for the meeting.
Apologies
NameReason for Sending Apology
Jack Cutting 
Tabitha Rodwell 
Absent
NameReason for Absence
No absentee information has been recorded for the meeting.

Declarations of Interests

Member NameItem Ref.DetailsNature of DeclarationAction
No declarations of interest have been entered for this meeting.

Visitors

PRESENT :

 

His Worship the Mayor Councillor Bird (in the Chair); Councillors Andrews, Annison, Bensly, Borg, Carpenter, B Coleman, M Coleman, Connell, Davis, Fairhead, Flaxman-Taylor, Grant, A Grey, K Grey, Hacon, Hammond, Hanton, Jeal, Jones, Lawn, Mavroudis, Myers, Plant, Pratt, Reynolds, Robinson-Payne, Smith, Stenhouse, Thirtle, Wainwright, Walch, Walker, Waters-Bunn, Weymouth, Williamson and Wright.

 

Also in attendance :-

 

Mrs S Oxtoby (Chief Executive Officer), Mrs J Beck (Director of Customer Services), Mr R Read (Director of Housing and Neighbourhoods), Mrs K Watts (Transformation Programme Manager), Mr D Johnson (Monitoring Officer), and Mr R Hodds (Corporate Governance Manager).

 

 

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