Issue - meetings

i.          To approve the minutes of the Joint Informal Statutory Advisory and Consultative Committees held on 15 January 2013.

ii.         To note the minutes of the Advisory Committee held on 15 January 2013.

iii.        To note the draft minutes of the meeting of the Alexandra Palace and Park Board held on 7 February 2013.

i)          The minutes of the information Joint Statutory Advisory and Consultative Committees held on 15 January 2013 were approved as a correct record.

Matters Arising

APSC105 – Jacob O’Callaghan informed the Committees that he was minded not to raise this for discussion at this meeting but depending on further enquiries, he may want to raise this issue at a future meeting.

ii)         The minutes of the Statutory Advisory Committee meeting held on 15 January 2013 were noted.

iii)       The draft unrestricted minutes of the Alexandra Palace and Park Board held on 7 February 2013 were noted.

Matters Arising

APBO270 – Councillor Jenks referred to the meeting held before the Board meeting in February and asked whether any members of the opposition had been invited (as the minute referred to ‘strong cross-party support’).  Duncan Wilson advised that the minute did not mean that strong cross-party support had arisen as a result of the meeting referred to, but that there was support for the HLF bid by both parties.  The meeting referred to was with HLF representatives, and the Leader of the Council and the Chief Executive had attended.  No other Councillors had been invited to attend.

APBO272 – Members asked for details of the complaints made in regard to the overnight gate closures.  Mark Evison explained that most of the complaints were from people who used the gates late at night and still wanted them to be open, but none of the complaints were alarming.  The gates closure was still in the trial period, and a full evaluation would be made at the end of this period.