Agenda and draft minutes

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Items
No. Item

39.

APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE

Minutes:

Apologies for absence were received from Councillor Gorrie.

40.

DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST

A member with a disclosable pecuniary interest or a prejudicial interest in a matter who attends a meeting of the authority at which the matter is considered:

 

(i) must disclose the interest at the start of the meeting or when the interest becomes apparent, and

(ii) may not participate in any discussion or vote on the matter and must withdraw from the meeting room.

 

A member who discloses at a meeting a disclosable pecuniary interest which is not registered in the Register of Members’ Interests or the subject of a pending notification must notify the Monitoring Officer of the interest within 28 days of the disclosure.

 

Disclosable pecuniary interests, personal interests and prejudicial interests are defined at Paragraphs 5-7 and Appendix A of the Members’ Code of Conduct.

Minutes:

There were no declarations of interest.

41.

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To approve the minutes of the meeting held on 24 September 2012 and to note the actions list.

Minutes:

The minutes of the meeting held on 11 September 2012 were approved as a correct record of the meeting.

42.

ACTIONS ARISING FROM THE FORUM

To discuss any actions arising from the forum.

Minutes:

The following actions were identified following the discussions held during the area forum:

 

Park Road Leisure centre

 

Simon Farrow – Head of Client Services, Haringey Council – and Ian Gallagher – Divisional Business Manager, Fusion Lifestyle – attended the meeting to provide an update on the implementation of the new Fusion Lifestyle contract, particularly at the Park Road leisure centre.

 

NOTED:

·          The contract had been awarded following an 18 month procurement process.  Fusion Lifestyle took over the management of 4 leisure centres – Broadwater Farm, Park Road, Tottenham Green and White Hart Lane.

·          Existing staff had been TUPE’d over to become Fusion staff members, and the level of staff had increased.

·          A customer feedback card system was in place at all leisure centres and customers were encouraged to use this.

·          Further information on Fusion Lifestyle could be found at the website - http://www.fusion-lifestyle.com/

·          Ian Gallagher could be contacted by email – ian.gallagher@fusion-lifestyle.com

 

Action 1 – Fusion Lifestyle had offered to set up a local user-group.  Councillor Strang offered to co-ordinate and asked for any volunteers to contact him.

ACTION: Chair / Fusion Lifestyle

 

Action 2 – the synopsis specification document should be published on the Fusion / Haringey website.

ACTION:  Director, Place & Sustainability

 

Planning Enforcement

 

Myles Joyce – Team Leader, Planning Enforcement & Appeals – gave a presentation on planning enforcement (presentation available on the website), and answered questions from the public.

 

Members thanked Myles for attending and identified the following action:

 

Action 3 – Committee members to explore mechanisms for influencing the priorities informing the exercise of ‘expediency’ with regards to planning enforcement in forum area to better reflect local wishes.

ACTION: Chair / Myles Joyce

 

Budget Consultation

 

Kevin Bartle – Assistant Director, Finance – attended to provide an overview of the budget consultation (presentation available on the website).  Apologies from Councillor Goldberg were received, as the rescheduling of the forum had clashed with another meeting.

 

Members and residents noted that although the online consultation had closed on 21 February 2013, Councillor Goldberg had agreed that comments made during the forum would be fed back via the minutes, and residents would be able to send any comments directly to him – joe.goldberg@haringey.gov.uk

 

The main issues noted were:

 

·          Priorities should be public spaces such as libraries and parks (places that the community can use for free), early years and children / young people services.

·          There were concerns that the Universal Credit could lead to people leaving the borough, which could lead to a financial shortfall in the borough’s finances.

 

Crime and Policing

 

NOTED that neither the Borough Commander or Safer Neighbourhood Team were able to attend the meeting.

 

Councillor Weber informed residents and members of the forthcoming MOPAC consultation meeting at the Civic Centre - http://www.london.gov.uk/events/policing-and-crime-consultation-events

 

Parish Pump

 

NOTED the four speakers:

1)            Raising awareness of the issue of dog fouling (including a request for people to report any incidents to Veolia – 020 8885 7700)

2)            An invitation to attend the Sustainable Haringey event

3)            Information on the CASCH residents  ...  view the full minutes text for item 42.

43.

AREA PLAN - for sign off

Minutes:

The Chair welcomed Joan Hancox to the meeting.  Members discussed the area plan and the following points were made:

 

·               Members were broadly happy with the priorities, and agreed that the focus should be on the actions and their definition.

·               There were concerns over the senior level commitment to the plan, which was required for it to work.

·               Joan Hancox advised that if members had issues about the quality of responses to targets on the plan that they could invite the officer responsible to an Area Committee meeting in order to provide a detailed response.

 

The Committee decided not to sign off the plan in its’ current form, and agreed that more specific, actionable feedback needed to be provided to the officers as to why there were reservations about the plan and what the Committee would want to see before it could be signed off.  The Chair requested that comments be sent to him, and he would set up a meeting with Joan Hancox and the Director of Place and Sustainability with a view to presenting an updated plan to members in March.

ACTION: Chair / Committee Members

44.

DATES OF FUTURE MEETING - 15 April 2013

Minutes:

Members noted the date of the next meeting.

45.

ANY OTHER BUSINESS OF AN URGENT NATURE

Minutes:

There was no such business.