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Contact: Bernie Carr
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Declarations of Interest To receive
any declarations of interest. Minutes: There were
no declarations of interest received at this point in the meeting. |
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Minutes- Council - 25 November 2020 PDF 177 KB Minutes: The minutes of the Council meeting held on 25 November 2020 were submitted and approved as a correct record. |
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Announcements/Communications
Minutes: There were no formal Announcements for this meeting. |
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Report of the Overview and Scrutiny Board Minutes: Council received and noted a report of the Chair of the Overview and Scrutiny Board outlining the work of the Board and Scrutiny Panels. |
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Refreshing the Strategic Plan for the 2021- 24 period PDF 184 KB Additional documents:
Minutes: The
Mayor and the Chief Executive submitted a report with regard to refreshing the
Strategic Plan for the 2021-24 period. The
report commenced the process of refreshing the Strategic Plan for the 2021-2024
period, ensuring that it remained current and reflective of major developments
of the past year, in particular COVID-19, and those anticipated in the coming
three years. The
Mayor advised that the Council would consult with local communities and other
stakeholders on the proposed revisions to strategic priorities. This
consultation would take the form of the first ‘annual conversation' with
communities on direction of travel and future plans (including spending plans),
an approach which will in future years be embedded within the Council's
emerging locality working approach. The consultation would be called 'Let's
Talk' and the Mayor urged the public to take part in the consultation process. ORDERED as follows: That Council note the proposed strategic priorities for 2021-24 (Appendix 1) for public consultation to inform the next iteration of the Strategic Plan, to be considered by Council on 24 February 2021. |
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Medium Term Financial Plan Update, and Budget Savings Proposals 2021/22 PDF 254 KB Additional documents: Minutes: The
Mayor and the Director of Finance submitted a report with regard to the Medium
Term Financial Plan Update, and Budget Savings Proposals 2021/22. The
report provided an update to Council of the Council's Medium Term Financial Plan
(MTFP) for the period to 2023/24, reflecting and supporting delivery of the
Strategic Plan. The
Mayor advised that he had a number of amendments to make to the report that had
been previously circulated. The
Mayor referred to Paragraph 15 of the report which included a number of planned
budget savings for 2021/22 which were proposed as part of the budget report to
Council in February 2020 and were already assumed in the MTFP The
Mayor advised that since this report was considered by Executive the Government
had announced the details of the Comprehensive Spending Review 2020 and this
had now clarified a number of assumptions and it was clear that the amount of
money the Council was going to receive from the Government in 2021/22 was
greater than had been forecast. As a result of officers already finding a way
of saving the Council £1.9m in efficiencies which did not impact on the public
of Middlesbrough the Council had some room for manoeuvre on the setting of its
2021/22 Budget. As a result, the proposal to move to fortnightly bin
collections included at Paragraph 15 of the report, would be removed from the
proposed budget savings as this could now be funded
from the additional money identified above. In
addition, the proposed increase in Council Tax included at Paragraph 29 of the
report would be 2.75% rather 3.99%. The
Mayor advised that the executive were not convinced that Middlesbrough was
ready for fortnightly collections as fly-tipping in some parts of town could
get worse. He stated that the Council would focus on educating people to
recycle by working with the public, schools and the university to promote
recycling. Councillor
M Storey stated that he believed most people would be happy to hear that
fortnightly bin collections was no longer an option. However, he asked what had
changed, where the Council would find the money and how recycling education
would be increased. The
Mayor advised that the Council now had certainty over the amount of money it
was receiving from the Government and following an examination of different
departmental budgets, weekly bin collections would be retained for the time
being.
Councillor Mawston advised that the retention of weekly bin collections was excellent news for all residents. He stated that two of the political groups that were in favour of weekly bin collections had submitted a call-in in respect of the previous decision to go to two weekly bin collections. He stated that the Council needed an excellent recycling programme and they needed to involve schools ... view the full minutes text for item 20/52 |
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Urgent Items
Minutes: There were no Urgent items submitted for this meeting. |
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Minutes: Consideration
was given to Motion No.146, moved by Councillor C Hobson and seconded by
Councillor Arundale of which notice had been given in
accordance with Council Procedure Rules No. 53-60 as follows: Fireworks
Motion
The
Chair invited members to speak to the motion. Councillor
Cooper advised that he supported the motion but he would like to propose an
amendment to include that the Government regulate the size of the fireworks. The
Chair advised that the motion had been reviewed by the Council's legal
department and parts of the original motion that had been put forward had been
taken out because the Council would have been unable to enforce those elements
of the motion. Councillor
Hubbard seconded the amendment to the motion. Councillor
Mawston advised that he supported the motion but he
would like to add an amendment that the Government reduce the power of the
fireworks. Councillor
McTigue advised that she supported the motion, in
particular the reduction in decibels. Councillor
Coupe advised that he supported the motion and agreed that fireworks needed
more regulation. Councillor
Rooney referred to a report produced in 2019 which recommended that there
should be restrictions on fireworks and that decibels should be set and that
local government should be able to enforce the measures. Councillor Rooney
advised that she would forward the report to Councillor Hobson for information. Councillor
Rathmell stated that he would like to propose an
amendment to the motion to say that the Council would develop its own fireworks
policy for any event that the Council held. The
Monitoring Officer queried that as there were three different amendments,
whether the three members that had proposed them would like to combine them
into a single amendment to enable members to vote on it. All
three members agreed to the combined amendment. The
Chair read out the revised motion. This
Council resolves:
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Notice of Urgent Motions (if any) Minutes: There were no Urgent Motions submitted within the specified deadlines for Urgent Motions for this meeting. |
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Members' Question Time Minutes: There were no Members Questions submitted within the specified deadlines for this meeting. |