Meeting of the Burnley Borough Council to Be Held at 6.30Pm on Wednesday 13Th April 2016
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Meeting of the Burnley Borough Council To be held at 6.30pm on Wednesday 13th April 2016 Town Hall Burnley 5th April 2016 Sir or Madam, Notice is given of a MEETING of the COUNCIL of the BOROUGH OF BURNLEY to be held at the TOWN HALL, BURNLEY, on Wednesday 13th April 2016 starting at 6.30 p.m. To transact the business specified below. Lukman Patel Head of Governance, Law and Regulation Members of the public may ask a question, make a statement, or present a petition relating to any matter for which the Council has a responsibility or which affects the Borough. Notice in writing of the subject matter must be given to the Head of Governance, Law & Regulation by 5.00 pm on the day before the meeting. Forms can be obtained for this purpose from the reception desk at Burnley Town Hall, Manchester Road or at the Contact Centre, Parker Lane, Burnley or from the web at: www.burnley.gov.uk/meetings. Requests will be dealt with in the order in which they are received. A G E N D A 1. Minutes of the last meeting To receive, as read, the Minutes of the proceedings of the Full Council meeting held on the 24th February 2016 and to confirm them or otherwise. (enclosed) 2. Declarations of Interest In accordance with the Regulations, Members are required to declare any personal or personal and prejudicial interests they may have and the nature of those interests in respect of items on this agenda and/or indicate if S106 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 applies to them. Please note that phones and other equipment may be used to film, record, tweet or blog from this meeting. The use of those images or recordings is not under the Council’s control. No part of the meeting room is exempt from public filming. Under current legislation members of the public can film or record this meeting provided they don’t disrupt the meeting. 3. Mayors’ Communications To receive communications (if any) from Her Worship the Mayor - thanks to retiring or other Councillors standing for re-election. 4. Public Question Time To receive questions or statements from members of the public. 5. Petition Debate. Following receipt of the petition set out below comprising over 1500 signatures, to debate a response in accordance with the constitution’s petition scheme; “Petition against the demolition of the link bridge. Burnley Council Executive has proposed plans to demolish the Open Market, the Service Deck and Ramp, the former site of Studio 123 (cinema ) and the Link Bridge. Market Hall stall holders understand the need for this, but disagree with the plan to demolish the Link Bridge. We feel that this is an important entrance and exit point of the market hall, mostly for disabled, elderly and families with prams. Please help us voice our concerns by signining our petition” 6. Items for Decision by the Council Agenda Page No. (a) Combined Authority 15 To seek agreement for the Council to become a constituent member of a Combined Authority for Lancashire (report enclosed) (b) Calendar 2016/17 39 To consider a proposed calendar of meetings for 2016/17 (report enclosed) 7. Scrutiny Committee Chair’s Cycle 5 Report 49 To receive the report of the Scrutiny Committee Chair on the fifth cycle of Scrutiny Committee meetings. (report enclosed) 8. Strategic Plan Progress Reports 53 Mark Townsend Leader 55 John Harbour Deputy Leader/Housing and Environment 57 Wajid Khan Resources and Performance 59 Management Please note that phones and other equipment may be used to film, record, tweet or blog from this meeting. The use of those images or recordings is not under the Council’s control. No part of the meeting room is exempt from public filming. Under current legislation members of the public can film or record this meeting provided they don’t disrupt the meeting. Agenda Page No. Bea Foster Leisure and Culture 61 Tony Harrison Community Services 65 Sue Graham Regeneration and Economic Development 67 (reports enclosed) 9. Questions To deal with questions (if any) relating to matters not contained in the minutes before Council and of which notice in writing has been received in accordance with Standing Order No10 (2). 10. Exclusion of the Public To consider the exclusion of the public from the meeting before discussion takes place on the following item of business on the grounds that in view of the nature of the business to be transacted, if the public were present there would be a disclosure to them of exempt information within the meaning of Part VA of the Local Government Act 1972. 11. Vision Park Phase 1 69 To seek approval to progress Phase 1 of the Vision Park Project. (report and relevant Minute enclosed) Please note that phones and other equipment may be used to film, record, tweet or blog from this meeting. The use of those images or recordings is not under the Council’s control. No part of the meeting room is exempt from public filming. Under current legislation members of the public can film or record this meeting provided they don’t disrupt the meeting. Item 1 Minutes of the Last Meeting BURNLEY BOROUGH COUNCIL BURNLEY TOWN HALL Wednesday 24th February 2016 PRESENT MEMBERS Her Worship The Mayor Councillor Elizabeth Monk in the Chair; Councillors Baker, Birtwistle, Briggs, Brindle, Campbell, Cant, Carmichael, Chaudhary, Cunningham, Ellis, Fleming, Foster, Graham, Greenwood, Harbour, Harrison, Heginbotham, Hosker, Hussain, Kelly, Wajid Khan, Malik, Martin, Mottershead, Newhouse, Pate, Porter, Reynolds, Royle, Sumner, Tatchell, and Townsend OFFICERS Pam Smith - Chief Executive Helen Seechurn - Director of Resources Mick Cartledge - Director of Community Services Lukman Patel - Head of Governance, Law and Regulation Phil Moore - Head of Finance and Property Management David Donlan - Accountancy Division Manager Imelda Grady - Democracy Officer Alison McEwan - Democracy Officer David Farrar - Mayor’s Officer 56. Minutes RESOLVED The Minutes of the meeting of the Council held on the 9th December 2015 were confirmed and signed by the Chair. 57. Declarations of Interest Councillor Graham declared an other prejudicial interest in item 5 (d) on the agenda relating to the Revenue Budget 2016/17 Councillors Baker, Heginbotham and Khan declared a discloseable pecuniary interest in item 5 (j) on the agenda relating to Selective Licensing. Councillors Baker and Sumner declared an Other prejudicial interest in item 6 on the agenda relating to the appointment of Mayor and Deputy Mayor for 2016./17. Full Council 13/04/2016 Page 1 of 12 58. Revenue Budget Monitoring Q3 2015/16 With reference to Minute 86 (15th February 2016) of the Executive, consideration was given to the revised Revenue Budget for 2015/16, based upon actual spending and income in Quarter 3 to 31st December 2015 RESOLVED 1. That approval be given to the latest revised budget of £15,889k as shown in Appendix 1. 2. That approval be given to the creation of a new reserve, the Flood reserve, using £300k to be transferred from the Transformation reserve as an interim measure subject to receipt through insurance and/or the bellwin scheme; and 3. That approval be given for the net transfers from earmarked reserves in the quarter of £20k as shown in Appendix 4. 59. Capital Budget Monitoring Q3 2015/16 With reference to Minute 90 (15th February 2016) of the Executive, consideration was given to the revised Capital Budget for 2015/16 based upon monitoring in Quarter 3 to 31st December 2015. RESOLVED 1. That a revised capital budget for 2015/16 totalling £6,638,274 as outlined in Appendix 1 be approved; 2. That the proposed financing of the revised capital budget totalling £6,638,274 as shown in Appendix 2 be approved; 3. That the latest estimated year end position on capital receipts and contributions showing an assumed balance of £3,564,222 as at 31st March 2016 as shown in Appendix 3 be noted; and 4. That approval be given for a new Capital scheme for Padiham Town Hall Flood Works totalling £250,000, which is due to be met and financed through insurance and/or the bellwin scheme. 60. Revenue and Capital Budgets and Council Tax 2016/17 Councillor Graham left the room for this item and did not take part in the discussion Consideration was given to the Revenue and Capital Budgets and Council Tax for 2016/17. It was moved by Councillor Wajid Kahn and seconded by Councillor Mark Townsend: “That the Council approves the proposals contained in items c to i on the agenda and adopts the relevant minutes of the Executive. These relate to the approval of the Council’s revenue and capital budgets and setting the rate of Council Tax 2016/17. Full Council 13/04/2016 Page 2 of 12 In accordance with Council Procedure Rule No. 16.7, a recorded vote was taken on the motion; For the Motion Councillors Howard Baker, Gordon Birtwistle, Charlie Briggs, Margaret Brindle, Frank Cant, Saeed Chaudhary, Jean Cunningham, Trish Ellis, Bea Foster, Joanne Greenwood, John Harbour, Tony Harrison, Shah Hussain, Anne Kelly, Wajid Khan, Sobia Malik, Tony Martin, Elizabeth Monk, Neil Mottershead, Tom Porter, Paul Reynolds, Ann Royle, Jeff Sumner, Andrew Tatchell and Mark Townsend Abstentions Councillors Ida Carmichael, David Heginbotham, Alan Hosker and Andrew Newhouse Accordingly, the motion was declared to be carried and it was RESOLVED: 1) That the latest Medium-Term Financial Strategy be approved; 2) That the Reserves Strategy, as appended to the Medium-Term Financial Strategy be approved; 3) That it be noted that a refreshed document will be provided regularly when required as an aid to monitoring the continued delivery of an annually balanced budget;