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Download Agenda 26 February ARDS AND NORTH DOWN BOROUGH COUNCIL Wednesday 20 February 2020 Dear Sir/Madam You are hereby invited to attend a meeting of the Ards and North Down Borough Council which will be held in the Council Chamber, Town Hall, The Castle, Bangor on Wednesday, 26 February 2020 commencing at 7.00pm. Yours faithfully Stephen Reid Chief Executive Ards and North Down Borough Council A G E N D A 1. Prayer 2. Apologies 3. Declarations of Interest 4. Mayor’s Business 5. Mayor and Deputy Mayor Engagements for the Month (To be tabled) 6. Deputation – Northern Ireland Ambulance Service – Ruth McNamara, Area Manager SE Division and Michael Bloomfield, Chief Executive 7. Minutes of Meeting of Council dated 29 January 2020 (Copy attached) 8. Minutes of Special Meeting of Council dated 11 February 2020 (Copy attached) 9. Minutes of Committees (Copies attached) 9.1. Planning Committee dated 4 February 2020 9.2. Environment Committee dated 5 February 2020 9.3. Regeneration and Development Committee dated 6 February 2020 9.4. Corporate Services Committee dated 11 February 2020 9.5. Community and Wellbeing Committee dated 12 February 2020 10. Conferences and Invitations 10.1. NILGA – Caring Councils: A Local Government Response to Poverty, addiction and improving mental health (Attached) 10.2. Dundalk Chamber – Cross Border Tourism Conference 2020 (Attached) 10.3. Climate Change – Our Challenge Conference 11. Outstanding Action from Equality Action Plan 2018-2020 (Report attached) 12. Nominations to Working Groups (Report attached) 13. Nominations to the Drainage Council for Northern Ireland (Report attached) 14. SEUPB PEACE PLUS Stakeholder Engagement (Report to follow) 15. Cross Community Schools visit to France and Belgium (Report attached) 16. Newry Mourne and Down District Council – A1 Junctions (Report to follow) 17. Sealing Documents 18. Transfer of Rights of Burial 19. Notice of Motion Status Report (Report attached) 20. Notices of Motion 20.1. Notice of Motion submitted by Councillor T Smith and Councillor Cooper This Council engages with local food banks to discuss the setting up of a food bank fund. Such a fund, with a notional amount of £5,000 would be used by food banks to draw down monies to help them in emergency situations, allowing them to purchase items they are desperately in need of. If, after discussions are held, such a fund is deemed helpful, efforts would be made to find the funds from existing budgets, allowing it to start as soon as possible. If funds cannot be found then it would be incorporated in next years rate. 20.2 Notice of Motion submitted by Councillor N Mathison and Councillor G Greer That this Council commits to delivering efficiency savings to ensure value for money for ratepayers, and will explore options to consult with residents on how rates are set. This Council further commits to deliberations on efficiency savings being open and transparent. The Strategic Policy and Finance Group (SPFG) shall, with the exception of matters subject to confidentiality on legal or commercial grounds, and those areas impacting staffing, consider all officer recommendations and reports on potential areas for efficiency savings in public. Furthermore, officers will bring forward a report to the relevant committee setting out the feasibility of consulting with residents on rate setting in future years. 2 ***IN CONFIDENCE*** 21. Request from Amey Consultants re Works at Ballymenoch Park, Holywood (Report attached) 22. Request from Portavogie Rangers to do Works at Portavogie Pitch (Report attached) 23. Request from Merman Productions to use Ward Park for Filming () MEMBERSHIP OF ARDS AND NORTH DOWN BOROUGH COUNCIL Alderman Carson Councillor S Dunlop Alderman Gibson Councillor Dunne Alderman Girvan Councillor Edmund Alderman Irvine Councillor Egan Alderman Keery (MAYOR) Councillor Gilmour Alderman McDowell Councillor Greer Alderman McIlveen Councillor Kennedy Alderman Menagh Councillor Mathison Alderman Muir Councillor Martin Alderman Smith Councillor McAlpine Councillor Adair Councillor McClean Councillor Armstrong-Cotter Councillor McKee Councillor Blaney Councillor McKimm Councillor Boyle Councillor Smart Councillor Brooks Councillor P Smith Councillor Cathcart Councillor T Smith Councillor Chambers Councillor Thompson Councillor Cooper Councillor Walker Councillor Cummings Councillor Wilson Councillor Douglas (DEPUTY MAYOR) Councillor Woods 3 ITEM 7 ARDS AND NORTH DOWN BOROUGH COUNCIL A meeting of the Ards and North Down Borough Council was held in the Town Hall, The Castle, Bangor on Wednesday, 29 January 2020 commencing at 7.00pm. PRESENT: In the Chair: The Mayor (Alderman Keery) Aldermen: Gibson McIlveen Girvan Menagh Irvine M Smith McDowell Councillors: Adair Gilmour Armstrong-Cotter Greer Blaney Kennedy Boyle Mathison Brooks Martin Cathcart McAlpine Chambers McKee Cooper McKimm Cummings McNickle Douglas Smart Dunlop P Smith Dunne T Smith Edmund Thompson Egan Wilson Officers: Chief Executive (S Reid), Director of Organisational Development and Administration (W Swanston), Director of Community and Wellbeing (G Bannister), Director of Finance and Performance (S Christie), Director of Regeneration, Development and Planning (S McCullough), Director of Environment (D Lindsay), Democratic Services Manager (J Wilson) and Democratic Services Officer (R King) 1. PRAYER The Mayor (Alderman Keery) welcomed everyone to the meeting and commenced the meeting by inviting the Chief Executive to read the Council prayer. NOTED. 2. APOLOGIES Apologies were received from Alderman Carson, Councillor McClean and Councillor Walker. C.29.01.20 PM Councillor P Smith took the opportunity to advise that Alderman Carson had been taken into hospital and wished him a speedy recovery. NOTED. 3. DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST The Mayor asked for any Declarations of Interest. Councillor Dunlop declared an interest in Item 15 – Sealing Documents. Councillor Greer declared an interest in Item 24 – Land at Dickson Park, Ballygowan. Councillor P Smith declared an interest in Item 19 – Village Renewal Schemes. Councillor Boyle declared an interest in Item 19 – Village Renewal Schemes. Councillor Martin declared an interest in 10 – Resolution - Fire and Rescue Budget NOTED. 4. MAYOR’S BUSINESS & 5. MAYOR AND DEPUTY MAYOR ENGAGEMENTS FOR THE MONTH (Appendix I & II) PREVIOUSLY CIRCULATED:- Copy of the Mayor and Deputy Mayor Engagements for the month of January 2019. The Mayor conveyed his condolences to Councillor Thompson whose mother had passed away earlier in the month. He informed Members that Councillor Walker’s mother had passed away the previous day and wished to pass on his sympathies to Councillor Walker and his family circle. The Mayor was pleased to see that Newtownards had won the Northern Ireland category in the Great British High Street of the Year 2019 final and described it as great news for the Borough. The Mayor wished to pass on his congratulations to the recipients of New Year’s Honours. He was pleased to see that one his Chaplins, Father Martin O’Hagan had received an MBE along with the other two priests in that group. Last week the Mayor had welcomed the Minister for Communities Diedrie Hargey MLA to Bangor, to mark the submission of the full planning application of the Queen’s Parade proposals. He had also attended Holocaust Memorial events, both a service in the Council Chamber and an exhibition at Bangor Library, which he had found to be a moving experience. 2 C.29.01.20 PM NOTED. 6. DEPUTATION – NILGOSC (Appendix III) The Mayor welcomed Mr David Murphy, Chief Executive of NILGOSC and invited him to make a 10-minute deputation. Due to the limited time, Mr Murphy provided members with a summary of a larger NILGOSC presentation entitled ‘Responding to Climate Change’. He advised that NILGOSC was the administrator of the local government pension scheme in Northern Ireland of which there were around 130,000 members and pensions were paid to 35,000 retirees every month. That number was growing, and they had to be paid through investment income that was generated through the pension fund. That investment was global, and therefore climate change had an impact on its investments and that’s why NILGOSC had been taking action to reduce climate risk. He noted it was an important year for those trying to tackle climate change with COP26, the United Nations climate change summit, taking place in Glasgow. It would be interesting to see how many Governments would be making a meaningful commitment to addressing climate change. A graph was displayed to members, showing the change in global temperature through history and this affected the type of investments that NILGOSC was making. It could only do so much however, and one of the three priorities of its Climate Risk Policy was to lobby Governments. The other two strands were identifying investment opportunities and engaging with companies. Corporations could take action, but it was the Governments that were the key decision makers. Consequently, NILGOSC had supported the 2015 Paris agreement to try and influence change. NILGOSC had collaborated with likeminded investors throughout the United Nations to lobby and engage with governments across the world. That grouping was made up of 440 investors with combined assets worth 34 trillion dollars. An open letter from that grouping to G20 leaders was available on the NILGOSC website. NILGOSC had recently halved its holdings and equities affected by climate change so that had reduced the climate risk to the NILGOSC portfolio. The organisation was constantly seeking
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