Minutes of Glasgow City Council 2008/2009 – Print 6 CONTENTS (1) Minutes of the Council of 11th December 2008 and 29th January 2009, pages 523 to 530, (2) Strathclyde Pension Fund Committee of 10th December 2008, pages 531 to 533, (3) Personnel Appeals Committee of 16th December 2008 and 16th and 23rd January 2009, pages 534 to 535, (4) Planning Applications Committee of 2nd and 9th December 2008 and 20th and 27th January 2009, pages 536 to 544, (5) Licensing and Regulatory Committee 3rd and 4th December 2008 and 14th, 15th, 21st, 28th and 29th January and 4th February 2009, pages 545 to 593, (6) Policy Development and Scrutiny Committees:- (a) Finance, Corporate and Trading Services of 3rd December 2008 and 14th January 2009, pages 594 to 598, (b) Direct and Care Services of 21st January 2009, pages 599 to 600, (c) Development and Regeneration of 27th January 2009, pages 601 to 605, (d) Education and Social Work of 9th December 2008 and 3rd February 2009, pages 606 to 613, (e) Land and Environment of 4th February 2009, pages 614 to 617, (7) Audit and Ethics Committee of 5th February 2009, pages 618 to 619, and (8) Executive Committee of 12th December 2008 and 23rd January and 6th February 2009, pages 620 to 653. 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Committee Services Chief Executive Department Glasgow City Council City Chambers Glasgow G2 1DU. E-mail: [email protected] COMMITTEE OFFICERS. Committee Officer Telephone Appointment of Senior Officers Kenny McGuinness 0141 287 4520 Audit and Ethics Tony O’Neill 0141 287 7857 Council Norrie Lyttle 0141 287 3926 Education Endowments Kenny McGuinness 0141 287 4520 Emergency Norrie Lyttle 0141 287 3926 Executive Norrie Lyttle 0141 287 3926 Licensing and Regulatory Gary McDermid 0141 287 4540 Planning Applications Anne Marie McGuire 0141 287 4516 Policy Development and Scrutiny Committees:— Development and Regeneration Maureen Hughes/ 0141 287 4377 Anna Castelvecchi Direct and Care Services Avril Wyber 0141 287 4266 Education and Social Work Kenny McGuinness 0141 287 4520 Finance, Corporate and Trading Services Carol McPherson 0141 287 4179 Land and Environment Cathy Birrell 0141 287 7872 Public Processions Alan Garbutt 0141 287 5376 Strathclyde Pension Fund Carol McPherson 0141 287 4179 2008-2009 COUNCIL 6 11th DECEMBER 2008 523 MINUTES OF GLASGOW CITY COUNCIL Glasgow, 11th December 2008. Glasgow City Council. Present: The Lord Provost (Robert Winter) (Chair). DR NINA BAKER ARCHIE GRAHAM TOMMY MORRISON RUTH BLACK JAHANGIR HANIF ANDY MUIR PHILIP BRAAT GRAEME HENDRY WILLIAM O’ROURKE SHAUKAT BUTT ELLEN HURCOMBE MARY PARIS PAUL CAREY MATTHEW KERR STEVEN PURCELL PATRICIA CHALMERS BILL KIDD IRFAN RABBANI MARGOT CLARK GERALD LEONARD MOHAMMED RAZAQ STUART CLAY BILLY McALLISTER GEORGE REDMOND JAMES COLEMAN DAVID McDONALD DAVID RITCHIE PAUL COLESHILL ELAINE McDOUGALL GEORGE ROBERTS AILEEN COLLERAN JEAN McFADDEN PAUL ROONEY STEPHEN CURRAN CRAIG MACKAY GEORGE RYAN GILBERT DAVIDSON JIM MACKECHNIE JAMES SCANLON ALEX DINGWALL JOHN McKENZIE RUTH SIMPSON FRANK DOCHERTY JOHN McLAUGHLIN ALLAN STEWART SADIE DOCHERTY KENNY McLEAN ALISON THEWLISS JAMES DORNAN EUAN McLEOD GRANT THOMS STEPHEN DORNAN CATHERINE McMASTER JIM TODD JENNIFER DUNN JAMES McNALLY DAVID TURNER KENNETH ELDER HANZALA MALIK MARTHA WARDROP JONATHAN FINDLAY KHALIL MALIK ALISTAIR WATSON JOHN FLANAGAN DR CHRISTOPHER MASON KIERAN WILD IRIS GIBSON DAVID MEIKLE ALEX GLASS ANNE MARIE MILLAR DEACON CONVENER LORD DEAN OF GUILD Apologies: Danny Alderslowe, Colin Deans, Phil Greene, Allison Hunter, Tom McKeown and Gordon Matheson. Attending: I Drummond, Solicitor to the Council; G Black, Chief Executive; L Brown, Executive Director of Financial Services; and T McDonald, Assistant Director of Land and Environmental Services. COUNCIL 2008-2009 524 11th DECEMBER 2008 6 Deacon Convener—Welcome. 1 The Lord Provost welcomed to the House Mr David Dobson, who had been elected as Deacon Convener of the Trades House of Glasgow for the ensuing year, and expressed the hope that he would enjoy the ancient association of this House with the Trades House during his term of office. Mr Dobson replied in suitable terms. Emergency motion dealt with. 2 The Solicitor to the Council intimated that, in terms of Standing Order No 12(2), an emergency motion by Councillor Bill Kidd on the proposed Newsquest redundancies had been delivered to the Chief Executive prior to the meeting. The Lord Provost having agreed that the motion was relevant, competent and urgent, the House agreed to deal with it at this meeting. Minutes approved. 3 The minutes of the Council of 30th October 2008 (Print 5, pages 425 to 429) were submitted and approved. Minutes of committees submitted and approved. 4 The minutes of the undernoted committees were submitted and approved:— (1) Planning Applications Committee of 21st and 28th October and 25th November 2008 (Print 5, pages 430 to 436); (2) Licensing and Regulatory Committee of 22nd and 23rd October and 5th, 6th, 19th, 20th and 26th November 2008 (Print 5, pages 437 to 480); (3) Policy Development and Scrutiny Committees:— (a) Education and Social Work of 11th November 2008 (Print 5, pages 481 to 483); (b) Direct and Care Services of 20th October and 12th November 2008 (Print 5, pages 484 to 487); (c) Development and Regeneration of 28th October and 18th November 2008 (Print 5, pages 488 to 491); (d) Finance, Corporate and Trading Services of 22nd October and 19th November 2008 (Print 5, pages 492 to 496); and (e) Land and Environment of 26th November 2008 (Print 5, pages 497 to 499); (4) Audit and Ethics Committee of 27th November 2008 (Print 5, pages 500 to 502); (5) Personnel Appeals Committee of 20th October and 3rd, 11th, 25th and 28th November 2008 (Print 5, pages 503 and 504); and (6) Executive Committee of 31st October and 14th and 28th November 2008 (Print 5, pages 505 to 522). Local Government By-Election—Election of Councillor for Electoral Ward 20 (Baillieston)— Result noted. 5 There was submitted and noted a report by the Returning Officer advising that the result of the Local Government By-Election for Electoral Ward 20 (Baillieston), which had been held on 6th November 2008 was as undernoted and that accordingly Andy Muir had been elected as a Councillor for this ward. 2008-2009 COUNCIL 6 11th DECEMBER 2008 525 No of First Elected at Candidate Party Elected Preferences stage no. John Anderson Scottish Conservative and Unionist 226 Charles Baillie British National Party 46 David Cassidy Scottish National Party (SNP) 2,027 Moira A Crawford Scottish Green Party 32 David Jackson Scottish Liberal Democrats 142 Andy Muir Scottish Labour Party Yes 2,257 7 Daniel O’Donnell Scottish Socialist Party— 88 Scrap Council Tax Election Statistics Total Electorate 23,260 Percentage Poll 20.96% Breakdown of Rejected Papers Want of Official Mark 0 Voting for More Than One Candidate 36 Writing or Mark by which Voter could be Identified 1 Unmarked or Void for Uncertainty 21 At this point the Lord Provost welcomed Councillor Muir to the Council. Providing assistance in event of worldwide natural disasters—Position noted. 6 With reference to the minutes of the Finance, Corporate and Trading Services Policy Development and Scrutiny Committee of 19th November 2008 (Print 5, page 496) noting a report by the Executive Director of Financial Services advising of how the Council intended to provide assistance in the event of worldwide natural disasters and referring the report to Council for information, there was submitted and noted the said report. Changes to committees etc approved. 7 The Council agreed the following changes to committees etc:— Committee Change Education Endowments Committee Remove Irfan Rabbani and appoint Margot Clark Finance, Corporate and Trading Services Remove Jim Todd and appoint Andy Muir Policy Development and Scrutiny Committee Joint Consultative Forum Remove Aileen Colleran and appoint Catherine McMaster and William O’Rourke Representation on outside bodies approved. 8 The Council approved the following appointments etc to outside bodies:— Organisation Appointment City Markets (Glasgow) LLP Remove Jennifer Dunn and appoint Iris Gibson Culture and Sport Glasgow Remove James Dornan and appoint Allison Hunter COUNCIL 2008-2009 526 11th DECEMBER 2008 6 Organisation Appointment COSLA Appoint Iris Gibson as substitute Lowland Reserve Forces and Cadets Association Remove Hanzala Malik and appoint Tommy Morrison Strathclyde Joint Police Board Remove Aileen Colleran as substitute and appoint Anne Marie Millar Strathclyde Partnership for Transport Appoint Archie Graham West Community Health and Care Partnership Remove Aileen Colleran and appoint Jean McFadden Correspondence—Letter from East Dunbartonshire Council—Position agreed. 9 There was submitted a letter from the Acting Chief Executive of East Dunbartonshire Council regarding the undernoted motion which had been passed at a meeting of East Dunbartonshire Council on 30th October 2008 in respect of unauthorised signage and fly posting and asking this Council to pass the same motion, so that a concerted approach could be made to the Scottish Government in this respect.