Issue - meetings

A.        To formally receive the minutes of the meeting of the Executive Committee held on 1 April 2009.

(All decisions here have previously been fully resolved. There are no outstanding recommendations or referrals which require the Council’s consideration.)

(Minutes circulated in Minute Book 1 2009/10 – to follow)

B.        To receive the minutes and consider the recommendations and/or referrals from the following meetings of the Executive Committee (Decisions Notices previously circulated):

22 April 2009

Matters requiring the Council’s consideration include

·        Air Quality Strategy and Planning Protocol for Herefordshire and Worcestershire;

·        Children’s Centres – Future Contracts;

·        Government Connect;

·        Local Land Charges Fees;

·        Shared Services Board;

20 May 2009

Matters requiring the Council’s consideration include

·        Paolozzi Mural Trust;

(Minutes circulated in Minute Book 1 2009/10 – to follow)

C.        To receive the Decision Notice and consider the recommendations and/or referrals from the following meeting of the Executive Committee:

10 June 2009

Matters requiring the Council’s consideration include

·        Policy on the Funding of Voluntary and Community Sector Organisations;

·        Financial Management Action Plan;

·        Partnership Governance – Adoption of Framework and Toolkit;

(Decision Notice to follow)

RESOLVED that

1)         the minutes of the meeting of the Executive Committee held on 1 April 2009 be received and adopted;

2)         the minutes of the meeting of the Executive Committee held on 22 April 20009 be received and adopted and all recommendations approved;

3)         the minutes of the meeting of the Executive Committee held on 20 May 2009 be received and adopted and all recommendations approved, subject to:

in respect of Minute 6 (erroneously numbered 300) (Home Energy Conservation and Affordable Warmth) it being NOTED that

Resolution 1 should have read “…cavity wall insulation installed in their homes free of charge.” as had been previously noted at the meeting of the Executive Committee on 10 June 2009; and

4)         the decision notice of the meeting of the Executive Committee held on 10 June 2009 be received and all recommendations approved subject to:

in respect of Minute 19 (Funding of Voluntary and Community Sector Organisations – Policy) it being further RESOLVED that

            a policy for the award of contracts to voluntary and community sector organisations, based upon the ideas set out in the document tabled at the meeting by the Portfolio Holder for Leisure and Tourism, be considered by the Overview and Scrutiny Committee prior to submission to the Executive Committee and Council.

(The Portfolio Holder for Housing, Local Environment and Health undertook to provide a written response to Councillor Shurmer in respect of slippage in delivery of the Housing Capital Programme (Minute 21 – Capital Programme Outturn 2008/09).

In respect of Minute 11 (erroneously numbered 305) (Member Development Steering Group, 6 May 2009) the Leader requested that any Member who had not managed to resolve the shortfall in their IT requirements by late July should contact her.)

(Prior to consideration of this item, and in accordance with the requirements of Section 81 of the Local Government Act 2000, Councillors Cookson (Age Concern), Hall (Redditch Arts Council) and Pearce (Redditch Arts Council) declared a personal and prejudicial interest and Councillors Anderson (Redditch Play Council), Field (SSAFA) and Thomas (Carer’s Careline) declared a personal interest in view of the fact that they were variously employed by, were Chairs or board members of or had been appointed to voluntary and community sector organisations within the Borough and Councillors Chance, Hartnett, Hopkins and Taylor declared a personal interest in view of their personal connection to (Taylor) or as Board Members of (Chance, Hartnett and Hopkins) Redditch Co-operative Homes.

In the absence of the Mayor, Councillor Hall, Councillor Banks, the Deputy Mayor took the Chair)