Issue - meetings

To consider any items admitted at item 2 above.

New Item Of Urgent Business – SUBSIDY AND PRICING SCHEDULE AMENDMENT (Report of the Director of Adult, Culture and Community Services - Agenda Item 25)

Our Chair agreed to accept the report as urgent business. The report was too urgent to await the next meeting because the revised pricing structure needed to be implemented from 7 April 2008.

We noted that the Chair of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee had

agreed that the decision in respect of this matter was both reasonable in all the circumstances and that it should be treated as a matter of urgency for the purposes of Paragraph 18 of Part 4 Section H of the Constitution and that the call in procedure should not apply to the action being taken. In giving his consent the Chair of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee had expressed his concern be recorded that it had been necessary to have to rely on the urgency procedure in order to amend the earlier decision of the Cabinet. 

RESOLVED:

1. That the feedback and strength of feeling from residents aged 65 plus and groups be acknowledged.

2. That the decision taken at our meeting on 22 January 2008 (vide Minute CAB 114 be varied so as to allow for the fees and charges schedule amendment as set out below -

For 65+ users:-

• Monday – Friday 9am – 5pm = Free access to all activities excluding specialist classes and pre-booked courses.  Haringey residents only.
• Charges outside these times are on a flat day rate:
  • £1.50 Advantage+ = residents not eligible for Council Tax Benefit, and non residents.
  • £1.00 Advantage = residents eligible for Council Tax Benefit.
• Haringey residents may also opt to pay monthly by direct debit at £10 per month.

3.  That a progress report be presented to the Overview and Scrutiny Committee in six months time.