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Agenda Item No: 2 (B) S Agenda Item No: 2 (b) S Democratic Support Service PO Box 136 County Hall Northampton NN1 1AT MINUTES of the Business Meeting of the NORTHAMPTONSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL held at County Hall, Northampton on 28 November 2013 at 10.30am PRESENT: Councillor Joan Kirkbride (Chairman) Councillor Stan Heggs (Vice-Chairman) Councillor Sally Beardsworth Councillor Derek Lawson MBE “ Paul Bell “ Stephen Legg “ Catherine Boardman “ Chris Lofts “ Wendy Brackenbury “ Arthur McCutcheon “ Julie Brookfield “ John McGhee “ Jim Broomfield “ David Mackintosh “ Michael Brown “ Allan Matthews “ Robin Brown “ Andy Mercer “ Mary Butcher “ Dennis Meredith “ Michael Clarke “ Ian Morris “ Adam Collyer “ Steve Osborne “ Elizabeth Coombe “ Bill Parker “ Gareth Eales “ Bhupendra Patel “ Brendan Glynane “ Suresh Patel “ Matt Golby “ Russell Roberts “ André Gonzalez De Savage “ Ron Sawbridge “ Christopher Groome “ Bob Scott “ James Hakewill “ Mick Scrimshaw “ Eileen Hales MBE “ Judy Shephard “ Mike Hallam “ Steve Slatter “ Jim Harker OBE “ Heather Smith “ Alan Hills “ Danielle Stone " Jill Hope “ Winston Strachan “ Dudley Hughes “ Michael Tye “ Sylvia Hughes “ Sarah Uldall “ Phil Larratt “ Allen Walker “ Graham Lawman “ Malcolm Waters Also in attendance (for all or part of the meeting): Dr Akeem Ali – Director of Public Health & Wellbeing Paul Blantern, Chief Executive Matt Bowmer – Director of Finance Tony Ciaburro – Director Environment, Development & Transport Art Conaghan –Political Assistant to the Conservative Group Martyn Emberson, Chief Fire Officer Laurie Gould, Monitoring Officer Paul Hanson, Executive & Regulatory Manager Alex Hopkins, Director of Customers, Communities & Learning Michael Quinn, Political Assistant to the Liberal Democrat Group Jenny Rendall, Democracy Officer (Minutes) Ben Wesson, Political Assistant to the Labour Group Honorary alderman John Bailey Honorary alderman Brian Binley Honorary alderman George Blackwell Honorary Alderman Marie Dickie Honorary Alderman Anne Goodman Honorary Alderman Gina Ogden Honorary alderman Priscilla Padley And 8 members of the public. 69/13 Apologies for non-attendance: Apologies for absence were received from Councillor Sue Homer. Apologies were also received from the Independent Chairman of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults (SOVA) Board, Marie Seaton. 70/13 To approve and sign the minutes of the Meeting Held on Thursday 28 September 2013: RESOLVED that: Council approved the minutes of the Council meeting held on Thursday 20 June 2013 subject to the following amendments: Item 57/13: to refer to the President of the Students Union at the University of Northampton as Miss Haviour Chen. 71/13 Notification of requests by members of the public to address the meeting Item 7: Honorary Alderman Brian Binley, Mr Andrew Bodman, Mr Peter Deeley (Chairman of South Northants Action Group), Mr Nigel Galletly (Chairman of Chipping Warden & Edgcote Parish Council) and Councillor Rosie Herring (South Northamptonshire District Council) Item 12(a): Mr Graham Croucher 72/13 Declarations of Interest by Councillors: Item No. Councillor Type Nature 7 Jill Hope Personal Member of the Northampton Rail Users Group 12a Suresh Patel Personal He operates a family business in the St James area of Northampton 7 Danielle Stone Personal Acts as an adviser to the Association of Northamptonshire Supplementary Schools. 7 Winston Strachan Personal Member of the Northampton Rail Users Group 73/13 Chairman’s Announcements: The Chairman made the following announcements: Honorary Aldermen were welcomed to the meeting. Councillors were encouraged to support a cake sale in aid of the Looked After Children Christmas appeal being organised over lunch by staff from Democratic Services. Councillors were also encouraged to buy raffle tickets to win a delicious chocolate cake. Those who had donated the sum of £100 from their empowering councillors fund towards the organisation of a masked ball for looked after children were thanked. To date over £3,000 had been raised and it was not too late to contribute. On Wednesday 20 November 2013, 7 new Young Leaders for the County were announced at a ceremony attended by the Leader of the Council, Councillor Jim Harker and Councillor Dudley Hughes. This marked the fourth year of this initiative which was the first of its kind in the country which was fully supported by the Northamptonshire County Council. The out-going Young Leader, Shannon and her fellow young leaders were thanked for all of their support during their term of office which included taking an active part in consultation on the 2013/14. As a result of their support the sum of £100,000 was included in the Budget towards improving disability access on public transport. The debate they led in a meeting of Council on post 16 education options led to a scrutiny project to which they further contributed. Their final duty as young leaders was to organise and lead the elections for their replacements which resulted in over 20,000 young people voting from a choice of 20 candidates. The Chairman then informed Council of the results of those elections as follows: Corby Young Leader: James Barker Daventry Young Leader: Chi Godwell East Northants Young Leader: Matt Hill Kettering Young Leader: Taylor King Northampton Young Leader and Leader of the Group: Matt Bradley South Northants Young Leader: Alistair Bassett Wellingborough Young Leader: Typhaine Thompson The Chairman looked forward to working with Matt and his fellow young leaders during their term of office. A reminder was given for the Chairman’s Civic Service on 8 December 2013. Photographs were also now available on the Chairman’s section of NCC’s website from her Garden Party held earlier that year. At his final meeting of Council, the Chairman’s predecessor, Honorary Alderman John Bailey announced his intention to commission his own Chairman’s portrait. He duly awarded the commission to Daniel Kelly, an art student from the University of Northampton. Honorary Alderman Bailey was then invited to unveil the portrait to Council who stated his pleasure with it. He felt encouraging young people to undertake this type of work was a worthwhile endeavour and he thanked Daniel for his hard work. (Councillor Phil Larratt arrived at 10.49am) 74/13 Petitions: There were none. 75/13 The Association of Northamptonshire Supplementary Schools: At the Chairman’s invitation, the Chairman of the Association of Northamptonshire Supplementary Schools, Mr Alaa Abouzanad gave a presentation of the work of the Association highlighting the following: The Associated had been set up to support ethnic minority pupils who had no other method for receiving additional support. During its time the Association had created a good professional teaching and learning environment in which to enhance life chances. Pupils attending had gained confidence and self-esteem and there had been greater integration within communities. (Honorary Alderman John Bailey left the meeting at 10.50am) In 2009 NCC had agreed to provide funding to enable the Association to assist children taking GCSE’s and ‘A’ Levels. This grant had enabled them to employ a part-time development officer and receive support from a Business Manager to help them develop a business plan. The Association had worked with local mainstream schools and had been offered space in which to hold their meetings, enabling a saving of £20,000 per year. As a direct result of the support they had received, they had secured a grant of £158,000 per year over 2 years from the Paul Hamblin Foundation to develop their role within mainstream education. They now employed a part-time development worker, bookkeeper and key development officers in Corby, Wellingborough and Kettering who would be based in schools and the local community to develop a funding stream for the Association. They would develop a number of people to monitor quality of the service and they had already begun developing a trading arm to the Association with a recent contract with Northamptonshire Police to deliver a translation service. Although they had lost 3 schools from some of the most vulnerable communities the new funding would enable them to provide additional support to those communities. Councillors congratulated the Association on their progress which had been achieved in a relatively short space of time and which made them almost unrecognisable in terms of organisation from where they had been when the Council agreed to provide further support in 2009. They were also congratulated on being able to develop trading services at a time when many organisations struggled to survive. RESOLVED that: Council noted the contents of the presentation made on behalf of the Association of Northamptonshire Supplementary Schools. 76//13 Opposition Priority Business: At the Chairman’s invitation the following members of the public addressed Council: Honorary Alderman Binley felt the motion quoted some incorrect information particularly with regard to the timetable for 2026. He felt 2 reasons for supporting HS2 were capacity and the ability of the current line to provide further services. Virgin Railways had recently had applications for services to Chester and Shrewsbury rejected because of a lack of capacity. Turning to the current line, he noted it was 100 years old and required a lot of maintenance which led to regular weekend closures. This situation would not change in his opinion until the new HS2 line came into operation in 2026. He then referred to the courage of railway pioneers like Brunel and Telford
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