Agenda and minutes

The Chief Executive advised that the meeting was being filmed by the Council for live or subsequent broadcast via the Council’s internet site . There was also a filmmaker in attendance today filming a short sequence for a BBC documentary. Although members of the public recording, filming or reporting on the meeting were asked not to include the public seating areas, members of the public attending the meeting should be aware that the Council could not guarantee that public present would not be filmed or recorded by others attending the meeting. Members of the public participating in the meeting (e.g. making deputations, asking questions) needed to be aware that they were likely to be filmed, recorded or reported on.  By entering the meeting room and using the public seating area, members of the public were consenting to being filmed and to the possible use of those images and sound recordings.

The Chief Executive also advised that the Mayor as chair of the meeting had the discretion to terminate or suspend filming or recording, if in her opinion continuation of the filming, recording or reporting would disrupt or prejudice the proceedings, infringe the rights of any individual or may lead to the breach of a legal obligation by the Council.

The Mayor thanked the Chief Executive for the clarification.

APOLOGIES:  Apologies for absence were received from Councillors Adamou, C Bull, Diakides, Marshall, and Opoku, and for lateness from Cllr Ejiofor.

The Mayor sought the meeting’s agreement to the variation of agenda business as follows :

to consider Item 11  – Deputations, Petitions and Questions after Item 9 – Appointments to outside bodies.

The variation was agreed.

NOTED

The Chief Executive informed the meeting that there was one item of urgent business, namely the report of the Special Overview and Scrutiny Committee of 20 February 2015 relating to the call in of the Cabinet’s recommendations to Council on the budget. As the Council budget was to be set at this meeting  it was proposed that this item was considered as an urgent item. The Chief Executive  advised that in accordance with Section 100B of the Local Government Act 1972 it was proposed that this item be considered under Item 10 on the agenda – Reports of Committees and to be introduced by the Chair of Overview & Scrutiny Committee.

The Chief Whip  MOVED the acceptance of the item of urgent business, namely the report of the Special Overview and Scrutiny Committee of 20 February 2015 relating to the call in of the Cabinet’s recommendations to Council on the budget  in accordance with Section 100B of the Local Government Act 1972, to be considered under Item 10 on the agenda and to be introduced by the Chair of Overview & Scrutiny Committee.

The MOTION was carried without dissent. 

NOTED

The Chief Executive advised that advanced personal interests  declarations had been received from Cllrs  Ahmet, Ibrahim, and Patterson as Members of UNISON, in respect of Item 11 & 12, and from Councillor Adje in respect of Item 12 as he was a employee  of the London Fire brigade .

Cllrs G Bull, Demirci, McNamara, and Gunnes declared personal interests as Members of UNISON, and Cllrs Griffith,  Mallett and Mann as Members of the NUT, in respect of Item 11 & 12.

NOTED

Members were reminded of the need to consider whether they needed to make a declaration in accordance with Section 106 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 in relation to unpaid community charge or council tax liability which was two months or more outstanding.

No such declarations were made.

NOTED

RESOLVED:

That the minutes of the meeting of the Council held on 24 November 2014 be signed as a true record.

Mayoral Engagements

The Mayor reported that since November 2014 she had attended many events and functions across the Borough as well as locations in the City of London. The circulated Mayor’s communications listed  some of the events, and in particular the mayor highlighted that on:

21 January  2015 – The Mayor  welcomed HRH The Duchess of Cornwall, during her visit to Haringey’s Weston Park Primary School for the ‘Story Laboratory’ as part of the Chris Evans Breakfast Show 500 Words competition.

On 3rd February 2015 – The Mayor was shown around Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital which was one of the charities supported by the Mayors’ Special Fund. The Mayor advised that she was accompanied by  both Sinead Egan, the daughter to the late Cllr Egan, who had helped choose the charity for the mayor’s special fund,  and a work colleague who had helped with fundraising events for GOSH. The Mayor commented that she had met children from Haringey who were receiving treatment as well as residents from Haringey who work for the hospital. Overall it had been a very touching experience. 

25 January 2015 – The Mayor opened the Holocaust Memorial Multi Faith Service at Bruce Castle Museum. It had been a very moving experience to listening to survivors of the Holocaust and their accounts of painful experiences that they went through.

12 February 2015 – The Mayor attended a presentation for the Greater North London Scout County Jack Petchey Awards, where seventeen young people from Haringey received awards on the night and well deserved recognition for their efforts.

NOTED

There were no matters to report.

There were no matters to report.

The Chief Executive reported an amendment to the circulated appendix to the report which had been tabled.

The Chief Whip moved and it was:

RESOLVED

That the appointments to an outside body, as set out in the schedule attached to the circulated report, as amended in the tabled appendix be approved.

a)    Corporate Committee Report Nos 3  – 2014/15

b)    Health and Wellbeing Board Report No 1 – 2014/15

A. Corporate Committee – Report Nos. 03/2014 -15

     Councillor Meehan MOVED the recommendation contained in Corporate Committee Report Nos. 03/2014 -15.

RESOLVED

That the Corporate Committee – Report Nos. 03 /2014 -15 be received in respect of the Treasury Management Strategy Statement (TMSS) for 2015/16, and that the recommendation concerning the Treasury Management Strategy Statement and Prudential Indicators for 2015/16 to 2017/18 (at Appendix 4 of the Financial Planning report to Council) be approved.

(N.B. Cabinet concur with this recommendation. The version of the TMSS at Appendix 6 of the Medium Term Financial Planning report (item 12 on the agenda refers) incorporates the updated version.)

B. Health & Well Being Board  – Report Nos. 01/2014 -15

     Councillor Kober  MOVED the recommendation contained in Health & Well Being Board  Report Nos. 01/2014 -15.

RESOLVED

i.              That the appointment of the Chair of the Haringey Local Safeguarding Children Board as a non-voting member of the Health & Well Being Board, be noted ;

ii.            That the proposed voting rights of the Lay Board Member of the Clinical Commissioning Group to a voting member on the Health & Well Being Board be agreed ; and 

iii.           That it be noted that Health & Well Being Board had accepted consideration of the report at its meeting on 13 January 2015 as the required consultation by Full Council for the purpose of altering the voting rights of the Board member. 

C. Special Overview and Scrutiny Committee  – Report Nos. 01/2014 -15

The Chair of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee presented the report of the Special Overview and Scrutiny Committee of 20 February 2015. Following a speech to the Council meeting, the Chair concluded that scrutiny had fulfilled its constitutional responsibilities to the best of its abilities, that previous scrutiny recommendations had been taken into consideration by the Cabinet, the substantive business of the evening’s meeting related to matters considered by the call-in and finally the overall riding important principle that this Council set a prudent, responsible, costed, balanced budget, he recommend that Council accepted recommendation 5a as outlined in the report.

The Cabinet Member for Resources and Culture responded to the comments of the Chair of Overview & Scrutiny Committee. 

The Mayor then asked theChief Whip to move the relevant motion.

The Chief Whip MOVED that no further action be taken, in respect of the referred recommendations of the Special Overview and Scrutiny Committee of 20 February 2015.

In accordance with Part Four Section A point 17.4 Councillors Elliott, Engert, Beacham, Connor, Newton, Morris, Ross and Carter stood and requested a named vote.

The Chief Executive read the names of those Councillors present and the following names were recorded for, against, or abstaining in respect of the put MOTION:

There were 42  in favour of the MOTION (Councillors  Adje, Ahmet, Akwasi-Ayisi, Amin, Arthur, Basu, Berryman, Bevan, B Blake, M Blake, G Bull, Carroll, Christophides, Demirci, Doron, Gallagher, Goldberg, Griffith, Gunes, Hearn, Ibrahim, Jogee, Kober, Mallett, Mann, McNamara, McShane, Meehan, Morton, Ozbek, Patterson, Peacock, Reith, Rice, Ryan, Sahota, Stennett, Strickland,  ...  view the full minutes text for item 63.

There were four deputations to address the meeting.

The first deputation was received from Jodie Pollen and Monique Westcarr on behalf of Save Haringey Youth Services.

Members asked questions of the deputation and received responses thereto.

The Cabinet Member for Children and Families – Cllr Waters responded to the deputation.

The second deputation was received from Ms Mary Langan on behalf Save Haringey Autism Services. During the deputation Ms Langan referred to a petition that had been generated to stop closures of day and residential centres in Haringey, which had achieved 6, 737 signatures – with over 2600 from Haringey residents.

Ms Langan presented the petition to the Mayor and the Mayor formally acknowledged receipt.

Members asked questions of the deputation and received responses thereto.

The Cabinet Member for Health and Well Being – Cllr Morton, responded to the deputation. In his response Councillor Morton also acknowledged receipt of the petition, and that the lead petitioners would be responded to.

The third deputation was received from Mr Sean Fox on behalf of Unison.

There being no questions to the deputation the Leader responded to the deputation.

The fourth deputation was received from the Alan Morton from Sustainable Haringey.

Members asked questions of the deputation and received responses thereto.

The Cabinet Member for Economic Development, Social Inclusion, and Sustainability – Councillor Goldberg responded to the deputation.

The Mayor thanked each of the deputations for attending.

The Mayor advised the meeting that the Assistant Director Corporate Governance and Monitoring Officer – Mr Ryan,  would give the meeting some advice in respect of voting changes which were introduced by the government in February 2014.

The Assistant Director Corporate Governance and Monitoring Officer – Mr Ryan advised the meeting that The Local Authorities (Standing Orders) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2014, and the Council’s Standing Orders required  the Council to record in the minutes how each Councillor voted (including any abstentions) when determining the Council’s Budget and the level of Council Tax to be levied. Mr Ryan advised that as the only requirement was to record in the minutes of the meeting how each member voted, and given that there were 6 amendments and a substantive motion to be voted on, it could be recorded in the minutes of the meeting how each member voted, including any who had abstained, by a show of hands.

The Mayor then MOVED and it was agreed nemine contradicente that  the advice given be  noted and acted on when it come to the voting on this item – and that this did not preclude 8 Members from requesting a recorded vote under the current Council Procedure Rules.

Councillor Arthur  moved the budget report – Medium Term Financial Planning 2014/15 to 2016/17, and moved the recommendations contained therein. Councillor Kober seconded the MOTION and reserved her right to speak during the debate.

Councillor Elliott  MOVED 6 budget amendments as set out in the appendix (attached to the decision sheet marked ‘A’. Councillor  Engert seconded the amendments to the MOTION and reserved her right to speak during the debate.

A debate ensued and Members contributed to the discussion. 

Councillor Elliott, and then Councillor Arthur, responded to the proposals.

The 6 amendments to the Motions were then voted on individually .

Budget amendment 1

on being put to the vote

there were 9  in favour of the amendment (Councillors Beacham, Carter, Connor, Elliott, Engert, Hare, Morris, Newton, and Ross)

and

42 against (Councillors Adje, Ahmet, Akwasi-Ayisi, Amin, Arthur, Basu, Berryman, Bevan, B Blake, M Blake, G Bull, Carroll, Christophides, Demirci, Doron, Gallagher, Goldberg, Griffith, Gunes, Hearn, Ibrahim, Jogee, Kober, Mallett, Mann, McNamara, McShane, Meehan, Morton, Ozbek, Patterson, Peacock, Reith, Rice, Ryan, Sahota, Stennett, Strickland, Vanier, Waters, Weston, and Wright)

and no  abstentions

Amendment 1 was declared LOST.

Budget amendment 2

on being put to the vote

there were 9  in favour of the amendment (Councillors Beacham, Carter, Connor, Elliott, Engert, Hare, Morris, Newton, and Ross)

and

42 against (Councillors Adje, Ahmet, Akwasi-Ayisi, Amin, Arthur, Basu, Berryman, Bevan, B Blake, M Blake, G Bull, Carroll, Christophides, Demirci, Doron, Gallagher, Goldberg, Griffith, Gunes, Hearn, Ibrahim, Jogee, Kober, Mallett, Mann, McNamara, McShane, Meehan, Morton, Ozbek, Patterson, Peacock, Reith, Rice, Ryan, Sahota, Stennett, Strickland, Vanier, Waters, Weston, and Wright)

and no  abstentions

Amendment 2 was declared LOST.

Budget amendment 3

on being put to the vote

there were 9  in favour of the amendment (Councillors Beacham, Carter, Connor,  ...  view the full minutes text for item 65.