Agenda and minutes

To appoint a Chair for 2010/11.

RESOLVED:

That Councillor Nilgun Canver, Cabinet Member for Neighbourhoods, be appointed as Chair of the Better Places Partnership for 2010/11.

To receive any apologies for absence.

Apologies for absence were received from the following:

Niall Bolger                            - Dale Phillipson substituted

Nic Durston                            - Leyla Laksari substituted

Dave Grant                            - John Forde substituted

Susan Otiti                             - Fiona Wright substituted

Councillor Antonia Mallett   

Esther Van Lith

Ellen Struthers

Members of the Board must declare any personal/and or prejudicial interests with respect to agenda items and must not take part in any decision made with respect to those items.

There were no declarations of interest made.

The Chair will consider the admission of any items of urgent business. (Late items of urgent business will be considered under the agenda item where they appear. New items of urgent business will be dealt with under Item 10 below). 

There were no items of Urgent Business.

To confirm the minutes of the meeting held on 18 February 2010 as a correct record.

RESOLVED:

That, subject to the inclusion of Leyla Laksari and Geoffrey Ocen within the list of those present, the minutes of the meeting held on 18 February 2010 were confirmed as a correct record. 

There will be a presentation on the role and purpose of the Board and this will be followed by a question and answer session.

There will then be a workshop session where the Board will be asked to discuss a set of questions about the role and membership of the Board.

The Chair noted that this item had been included within the agenda in order to provide the Board with an opportunity to consider how it could refocus its role and purpose with a view to improving its effectiveness.

In order to inform discussion a presentation was given on the purpose and role of the Board and information obtained as part of the recent Residents Survey 2010, of relevance to the Board, were also presented.

Presentations

Role of the HSP

Ø      The Better Places Partnership (BPP) was one of six Thematic Boards that formed the Haringey Strategic Partnership (HSP) and sat beneath the HSP Standing Leadership Conference.

Ø      The role of the HSP was to provide Leadership and consensus on strategic issues across the Borough by bringing together agencies such as the Police, NHS Haringey, Fire Brigade and Voluntary and Community groups and others and providing a forum within which priorities outcomes for the Borough could be agreed and achieved.

Key Documents

Ø      These shared priorities were expressed in the Sustainable Community Strategy (SCS) and the Local Area Agreement (LAA).

 Purpose of the Better Places Partnership

Ø      The BPP had primary responsibility for the delivery of the following SCS priority:

An environmentally sustainable future

Ø      In April 2008 the BPP agreed that it should focus on the delivery of the Greenest Borough Strategy (GBS) and the related projects and programmes attached to it. The vision of the GBS is set out below:

To work together to tackle climate change and secure a clean, safe and environmentally sustainable future for everyone living, working, visiting or studying in Haringey

Ø      As set out above, delivery of the SCS priority around the environment and sustainability and performance against LAA targets, comprised two key parts of the BPP work. 

Membership, Roles and Responsibilities

Ø      The membership of each Theme Board was agreed by the Board itself; however there were also commonalities across the each Board, which included the provision of three places for Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS), which were elected through the Community Link Forum and one place for the Haringey Association of Voluntary and Community Organisations (HAVCO).

Ø      The relevant Cabinet Member also sat on each of the Theme Boards.

Ø      In addition to attending the quarterly meetings of the BPP it was noted that there was an expectation that members of the Board would communicate between meetings and take forward and implement any agreed actions within their respective organisations.

Annual Residents Survey 2010 – Summary of Information Relating to the BPP

Ø      An overview of information gathered as part of the Annual Residents Survey 2010 was provided and there was agreement that this should be circulated with the minutes.

Group Discussion and Questions

Following the presentations the Board broke into three groups to discuss the questions set out below:

1)     Does the Better Places Partnership achieve the objectives set out within its current Terms of Reference?

2)     How could the BPP become more effective?

3)     To what extend does the membership of  ...  view the full minutes text for item 89.

To advise the Board of any issues arising from quarter one of the programme of projects in receipt of ABG funding managed by the Better Places Partnership.

The Board

To follow

The Board

The Haringey Labour Party manifesto included a pledge to establish a Sustainable Transport Commission to lead a debate on the actions we need to take for better transport, fairer parking controls and greater investment in our streets and transport services. A briefing will be given about proposals for establishing this forum.

The Boar

A presentation will be give on the role of Overview and Scrutiny and the relationship between the Board and Overview and Scrutiny and details of the draft work programme for 2010/11.

The Board

To consider any new items of urgent business admitted under Item 2 above. 

No new items of Urgent Business were raised.

To consider any items of AOB.

To note the dates of future meetings set out below:

• 6.30pm, 28 October 2010
• 6.30pm, 24 January 2011
• 6.30pm, 12 April 2011

The dates of future meetings, as set out below, were noted: