Agenda

Annual, Full Council - Wednesday, 20th May, 2026 7.30 pm

Venue: Tottenham Town Hall Town Hall Approach Road London N15 4RY

Contact: Ayshe Simsek, Democratic Services and Scrutiny Manager 

Note: Public seating for the Council AGM is limited due to limited capacity and will be allocated on a priority basis and to community representatives attending the meeting. 

Items
No. Item

1.

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.

2.

TO ELECT THE MAYOR FOR THE ENSUING YEAR 2026/27

The Local Government  Act 1972 provides as follows with regards to election of the Mayor:

 

Schedule 2 , paragraphs 2 (1) and 13(3)  - The Mayor shall be elected annually by the Council from among Councillors.

 

Schedule 2 paragraph 3(1) – The election of the Mayor shall be the first business transacted at the Annual Meeting of the Council.

 

Schedule 2, paragraph 3(3)  - In the case of an equality of  votes, the person presiding at the meeting shall give a casting  vote in addition to any other vote he/she may have.

 

3.

To receive apologies for absence

4.

To ask the Mayor to consider the admission of any late items of business in accordance with Section 100B of the Local Government Act 1972

5.

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

 

6.

TO RECEIVE WRITTEN NOTIFICATION OF THE APPOINTMENT OF DEPUTY MAYOR

The Local Government Act 1972 provides as follows with regard to the appointment of Deputy Mayor:-

Schedule 2, paragraph 5(1) – The Mayor may appoint a Councillor of the Borough to be Deputy Mayor, and the person so appointed shall, unless he/she resigns or becomes disqualified, hold office until a newly elected Mayor becomes entitled to act as Mayor (whether or not he/she/they continues until that time to be a Councillor).

Schedule 2, paragraph 5(2) – The appointment of a Deputy Mayor shall be signified to the Council in writing and be recorded in the minutes of the Council.

 

7.

To approve as a correct record the minutes of the meeting of the Council held on the 16th of March 2026 pdf icon PDF 514 KB

To follow

8.

TO PASS A VOTE OF THANKS TO THE RETIRING MAYOR AND MAYOR'S CONSORTS

9.

To receive such communications as the Mayor may lay before the Council

10.

TO ELECT THE LEADER OF THE COUNCIL FOR FOUR CONSECUTIVE MUNICIPAL YEARS

Report to follow

11.

TO RECEIVE THE REPORT OF THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE, NOTING THE APPOINTMENTS MADE BY THE POLITICAL GROUPS, AND TO TAKE SUCH ACTION AS MAY BE APPROPRIATE pdf icon PDF 205 KB

Report to follow.

12.

TO AGREE THE APPOINTMENTS PROCEDURE AND TO APPOINT COMMITTEES AND OTHER BODIES FOR THE MUNICIPAL YEAR 2026/27 INCLUDING THE SELECTION OF THE CHAIRS AND VICE CHAIRS pdf icon PDF 578 KB

Report to follow

 

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13.

TO MAKE APPOINTMENTS TO OUTSIDE BODIES pdf icon PDF 197 KB

Report to follow

 

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14.

To receive the report of the Chief Executive pdf icon PDF 180 KB

To agree the Council/ Committee Calendar for the 2026/27 municipal year.

 

To follow.

 

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15.

To receive the report of the Monitoring Officer and Director of Legal and Governance

16.

TO RECEIVE A STATEMENT OF COUNCILLORS' ATTENDANCE AT MEETINGS OF THE COUNCIL, COMMITTEES, AND SUB COMMITTEES IN ACCORDANCE WITH COUNCIL PROCEDURE RULES pdf icon PDF 213 KB

Report to follow

 

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17.

TO NOTE THE END OF MUNICIPAL YEAR FINANCIAL STATEMENT FOR 2025/26 pdf icon PDF 179 KB

Report to follow

 

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