Agenda and draft minutes

Venue: Civic Centre, High Road, Wood Green, London N22 8LE

Contact: Michael Kay, Democratic Services and Scrutiny Manager 

Items
No. Item

13.

FILMING AT MEETINGS

Please note this meeting may be filmed or recorded by the Council for live or subsequent broadcast via the Council’s internet site or by anyone attending the meeting using any communication method.  Although we ask members of the public recording, filming or reporting on the meeting not to include the public seating areas, members of the public attending the meeting should be aware that we cannot guarantee that they will not be filmed or recorded by others attending the meeting.  Members of the public participating in the meeting (e.g. making deputations, asking questions, making oral protests) should be aware that they are likely to be filmed, recorded or reported on.  By entering the meeting room and using the public seating area, you are consenting to being filmed and to the possible use of those images and sound recordings.

 

The Chair of the meeting has the discretion to terminate or suspend filming or recording, if in his or 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.

Minutes:

The Chair drew attention to the notice on filming at meetings.

14.

Apologies for Absence

Minutes:

Apologies were received from Councillor Reith, Councillor Adamou attended as a substitute.

15.

Urgent Business

The Chair will consider the admission of any late items of urgent business.

Minutes:

None.

16.

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:

None.

17.

Minutes of last meeting pdf icon PDF 134 KB

To confirm and sign the minutes of the meetings of the Standards Committee held on 13 October 2016.

Minutes:

The minutes of the Standards Committee of 13 October were agreed.

18.

Changes to the Council Constitution pdf icon PDF 253 KB

To consider a report with proposals for changes to the Council’s Constitution.

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Noting the time available to consider the papers, the Committee agreed that it would be helpful for other members of the Council to have opportunity to consider changes proposed to the Constitution. The Chair agreed that a briefing session for Members would be helpful. This item was therefore deferred without consideration.

19.

Members' Allowance Scheme for 2017-18 pdf icon PDF 314 KB

To consider a report on proposals for Members’ Allowances for 2017-18.

Additional documents:

Minutes:

The Committee considered the paper before them, which set out a proposed Members’ Allowance Scheme for 2017/18, for the Standards Committee to make recommendations to full Council.

 

Members noted the proposal to not change Members’ allowances from the current year, and to introduce an allowance for the statutory co-optees on the Combined Pensions Committee and Board, which was established in the current municipal year, in line with the allowance provided to the statutory co-optees on the Overview and Scrutiny Committee.

 

The Committee agreed that it was preferable for the total cost of the allowances to be maintained and not increased, but that there could be changes made to better recognise Members’ responsibilities. It was noted that the report proposed that a fundamental review take place over the next municipal year, to ensure a suitable allowances scheme was in place for the Council elected in May 2018.

 

Councillor Gideon Bull set out that he had made a request to the former Chair of the Standards Committee for there to have been a review of allowances in the current municipal year. He regretted that that had not happened and that he had not been kept abreast of the Standards Committee’s consideration of allowances.

 

The Chair set out that it would be helpful for there to be wider consultation as part of the review of allowances, which all Members would be able to contribute to, and that this should take place in the Autumn. 

 

RESOLVED:

To recommend full Council:

1.    Revoke the Members’ Allowances Scheme for 2016/17 as of 31 March 2017; and

2.    Approve the proposed new Members’ Allowances Scheme for 2017-18, as set out in Appendix 1 of the report, to take effect from 1 April 2017

20.

New Items of Urgent Business

Minutes:

None.

21.

Exclusion of the Press and Public

That the press and public be excluded from the meeting for consideration of Items 10 and 11 as they contain exempt information as defined in Section 100a of the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended by Section 12A of the Local Government Act 1985); paras 1 & 2; namely information relating to any individual, and information likely to reveal the identity of an individual.

Minutes:

RESOLVED

 

That the press and public be excluded from the remainder of the meeting as the following items contained exempt information, as defined under paragraphs 1 and 2, Part 1, schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972

22.

Minutes of Standards Assessment Sub-Committee

Minutes:

The minutes of the Standards Assessment Sub Committee held on 17 November 2016 were noted.

23.

New items of exempt urgent business

To consider any items admitted at 2 above.

 

Minutes:

None.

24.

Dates of Next Meetings