Agenda

Overview and Scrutiny Committee
Monday, 16th December, 2013 6.00 pm

Venue: Civic Centre, High Road, Wood Green, N22 8LE. View directions

Contact: Felicity Parker  2919

Media

Items
No. Item

1.

Webcasting

Please note: This meeting may be filmed for live or subsequent broadcast via the Council's internet site - at the start of the meeting the Chair will confirm if all or part of the meeting is being filmed. The images and sound recording may be used for training purposes within the Council.

 

Generally the public seating areas are not filmed. However, 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 for webcasting and/or training purposes.

 

If you have any queries regarding this, please contact the Committee Clerk

at the meeting.

 

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2.

Apologies for Absence

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3.

Urgent Business

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

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4.

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

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5.

Deputations/Petitions/Presentations/Questions

To consider any requests received in accordance with Part 4, Section B, paragraph 29 of the Council’s Constitution.

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6.

BUDGET SCRUTINY PROCESS AND TIMETABLE pdf icon PDF 123 KB

A briefing on the budget scrutiny process and timetable for 2013/14.

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7.

BUDGET SCRUTINY 2013/14 pdf icon PDF 2 MB

To consider revenue and capital proposals in the following documents:

 

a)        Revenue savings proposals detailed in Appendix A of the Financial Outturn 2012/13 and Budget for 2014/15 (Cabinet Report June 2013)

b)        Draft Cabinet report – Financial Planning 2014/15 to 2016/17 (areas for scrutiny by OSC can be found at pages 104 and 105 of the agenda pack).

 

N.B. the Draft Cabinet report – Financial Planning 2014/15 to 2016/17 is the draft Cabinet paper and therefore subject to change before Cabinet on 17 December.

 

The policy / service areas covered by Overview and Scrutiny are:

 

·               Performance

·               External Partnerships

·               Northumberland Park Project

·               Corporate Policy & Strategy

·               Communications

·               Legal services

·               Human resources

·               Organisational development

·               Council Budget

·               Corporate property

·               IT

·               Customer Services

·               Benefits

·               Regeneration

·               Employment/worklessness

·               Community cohesion

·               Tottenham Regeneration Project

·               St Ann’s redevelopment

·               Partnership arrangements

·               Carbon reduction

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8.

Draft Panel Recommendations pdf icon PDF 78 KB

Chaired by Councillor Winskill

 

To review and discuss draft recommendations from the Scrutiny Panels.

 

TO FOLLOW

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9.

New Items of Urgent Business

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10.

Future meetings

23 January 2014

17 March 2014

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