Agenda and minutes

(The Deputy Mayor in the Chair)

Councillor Smith proposed and Councillor Cantrill seconded the nomination of Councillor Gerri Bird as Mayor for the Municipal Year 2019/20.

Resolved (unanimously) that:

i.  Councillor Gerri Bird be elected for the Municipal Year 2019/20.

Councillor Bird then made the statutory declaration of acceptance of the Office of Mayor.

Councillor Herbert proposed and Councillor Moore seconded the nomination of Councillor Russ McPherson as Deputy Mayor for the Municipal Year 2019/20.

Resolved that:

i.  Councillor Russ McPherson be elected Deputy Mayor for the Municipal Year 2019/20.

Councillor McPherson then made the statutory declaration of acceptance of the Office of Deputy Mayor.

The minutes of the meeting held on the 21 February 2019were confirmed as a correct record and signed by the Mayor.

·  Abbey: Haf Davies

·  Arbury: Carina O’Reilly

·  Castle: Greg Chadwick

·  Cherry Hinton: Mark Ashton

·  Coleridge: Grace Hadley

·  East Chesterton: Gerri Bird

·  King’s Hedges: Alex Collis and Kevin Price

·  Market: Katie Porrer

·  Newnham: Markus Gehring

·  Petersfield: Mike Davey

·  Queen Edith’s: George Pippas

·  Romsey: Anna Smith

·  Trumpington: Peter Lord and Dan Summerbell

·  West Chesterton: Damien Tunnacliffe

It was noted the following had been elected to the Office of Councillor:

·  Abbey: Haf Davies

·  Arbury: Carina O’Reilly

·  Castle: Greg Chadwick

·  Cherry Hinton: Mark Ashton

·  Coleridge: Grace Hadley

·  East Chesterton: Gerri Bird

·  King’s Hedges: Alex Collis and Kevin Price

·  Market: Katie Porrer

·  Newnham: Markus Gehring

·  Petersfield: Mike Davey

·  Queen Edith’s: George Pippas

·  Romsey: Anna Smith

·  Trumpington: Peter Lord and Dan Summerbell

·  West Chesterton: Damien Tunnacliffe

The Council noted the appointment of Deacon Ian Murray as the Mayor’s Chaplain for the Municipal Year 2019/20.

Resolved (unanimously), on the proposal of Councillor Price, seconded by Councillor Bick that:

i. The Council expresses its appreciation of the manner in which the duties of Mayor and Mayoress were discharged by Nigel Gawthrope and Jenny Wood.  (The Common Seal was affixed to a copy of this resolution and presented to Jenny Wood at the meeting).

To be included in the Information Pack.

Apologies

Apologies were received from Councillor Ashton, Barnett, Dryden, Chadwick, O’Reilly, Payne, Pippas and Tunnacliffe. 

Civic Church Service

The Mott Sermon would be preached at Holy Trinity Church on Sunday, 26 May at 9.30 a.m.

Proclamation of Midsummer Fair

The Proclamation of Midsummer Fair was scheduled to take place on Wednesday 19 June, and details had been circulated.

Mayor’s Day Out

The Mayor confirmed that the Mayor’s Day Out would take place on Tuesday 13 August and asked that if anyone would like to help to let Penny Jackson know.

Resolved (unanimously) to:

Appoint Councillors Massey, Thornburrow, Pippas and Page-Croft Bailiffs of the City for the Municipal Year 2019/20.

Resolved (unanimously) to:

  i.    Agree the number and size of committees, depart from proportionality on the Planning and Transport Scrutiny Committee and to note the nominations listed in the agenda and in the information pack, set out below in full:

Ordinary Committee 

Resolved (unanimously) to:

Approve the Nominations for Committee Chairs and Vice-Chairs for Municipal Year 2019/20.

The Leader of the Council informed the Council of changes to Executive portfolios, set out in the Council Agenda pages 39-59.

Resolved (unanimously) to:

Approve the changes to the Constitution as set out below:

SECTION 6: OVERVIEW AND SCRUTINY COMMITTEES

The Council shall have the following Overview and Scrutiny Committees. Their role and functions are set out in Article 6 of Part 2 of this Constitution and their procedure is governed by the Overview and Scrutiny Procedure Rules in Part 4 of this Constitution.

Environment and Community (Scrutiny) Committee

Planning and Transport (Scrutiny) Committee

Group Leaders will each have the opportunity to speak for not more than 10 minutes on their Group’s priorities for action and objectives for the forthcoming municipal year in the following order:

Councillor Herbert

Councillor Bick

Annual Statement of the Labour Group is appended.

Councillor Herbert spoke to a written Annual Statement on the Labour Group’s priorities for the forthcoming Municipal Year, which had been appended to the agenda for the meeting.  It was note a typographical error on page 61 second line of the Agenda which should read ‘ Four commitments to deliver….’

Councillor Bick spoke to a written Annual Statement on the Liberal Democrat Group’s priorities for the forthcoming Municipal Year, which had been appended to the information pack for the meeting.

The scheme for Annual Statements provides that the Statement of the Leader of the largest group on the Council shall be deemed to be a motion for adoption. It may therefore be debated and amendments proposed after which it shall be put to the vote and, if carried, shall be adopted as Council policy for the municipal year. The Council will therefore consider the Annual Statement of the Labour Group as a motion for adoption.

If the adopted Annual Statement contains proposals which fall outside of the Council’s budgetary or policy framework, the proposals shall not be acted upon until there has been a report to the relevant Scrutiny Committee(s) and Executive Councillor(s) in the normal way and approval at a subsequent meeting of the Council.

Resolved (by 23 votes to 0) that:

i. The Annual Statement of the Labour Group, as appended to the agenda, be adopted as Council policy for 2019/20.