Meeting documents
Council
Tuesday, 14th July, 2020 2.30 pm
| Business Items | |
| 1 | Public Participation, petitions, and deputations (Standing Orders 2(vi) and 17, as amended by new Standing Order 5A) |
| The Council will receive written statements from any person who wishes to make a submission in accordance with the above Standing Orders. The Chairman will select the order of the submissions. Each submission must comply with the usual time limits of five minutes for public participation and deputations and three minutes for petitions. This section of the meeting must not exceed 30 minutes and matters must not refer to a current planning application. The Council will also receive questions from the public and provide answers thereto, subject to the Chairman being satisfied that the questions are relevant to the business of the meeting. Requests and full statements must be submitted in writing to the Head of Legal and Democratic Services, or to the officer mentioned at the top of this agenda letter, by noon on the day before the meeting and the request must detail the subject matter of the address. Statements received will be published on the Meetings App and on the Council website in advance of the meeting. | |
Other - 01 Public Statements submitted under Public Participation supplementary  | |
| 2 | Apologies for absence |
| 3 | Petitions to be presented by Members (Standing Order No. 16) |
| As this is a virtual meeting, members are asked to provide petitions to the Head of Legal and Democratic Services by 12.00 noon on the day before the meeting. Details of any petition received will be published on the Meetings App and on the Council website in advance of the meeting. | |
| 4 | Declaration of disclosable pecuniary interest (Standing Order 37) |
| A Member must declare any disclosable pecuniary interest where it relates to any matter being considered at the meeting. A declaration of a disclosable pecuniary interest should indicate the interest and the agenda item to which it relates. A Member is not permitted to participate in this agenda item by law and should immediately leave the meeting before the start of any debate. If the Member leaves the meeting in respect of a declaration, he or she should ensure that the Chairman is aware of this before he or she leaves to enable their exit from the meeting to be recorded in the minutes in accordance with Standing Order 37. | |
| 5 | Minutes |
| (1) 18 February 2020, to approve as a correct record (attached) (2) 16 June 2020, Extraordinary Meeting, to approve as a correct record (attached) | |
| Other - 05.1 Minutes 180220 | |
| Other - 05.2 Minutes 160620 | |
| 6 | Motions by Members (Standing Order No. 14) |
| None | |
| 7 | Matters referred from previous meeting |
| None | |
| 8 | Chairman’s announcements |
| 9 | Leader’s announcements |
| 10 | Chief Executive’s announcements |
| 11 | Forward Plan dated 3 July 2020 |
| (attached) | |
| Report - 11 Forward Plan 030720 | |
| 12 | Question Time (Standing Order No. 18) |
| Questions must relate to issues relevant to the work of the Executive. Question Time will normally last for 20 minutes. As this is a virtual meeting the Chairman and the Leader of the Council have requested that members supply the Democratic Services Officer with full details of the question they wish to ask by no later than 12 noon the day before the meeting. All questions received will be published on the Meetings App and on the Council website in advance of the meeting. A summary note of each question will be included in an appendix to the minutes in the usual way. | |
| Other - 12 Questions submitted by cllrs under Question Time supplementary | |
| 13 | Report and matters referred from the Executive |
| None | |
| 14 | Reports and matters referred from the Policy/Overview and Scrutiny Panels other than those dealt with elsewhere on this agenda |
| Due to the fast developing pace and high volume of work being considered by Policy an Scrutiny at present, there is no report to this meeting, but a comprehensive report will be prepared for the next scheduled meeting of Council in September. | |
| 15 | Reports and matters referred from the other Committees other than those dealt with elsewhere on this agenda |
| None | |
| 16 | Reports on joint arrangements and external organisations and questions relating thereto |
| (1) Avon Fire Authority Report from Councillor Payne (attached) (2) Avon and Somerset Police and Crime Panel Report from Councillor Westwood (attached) (3) West of England Joint Scrutiny Committee There is no report for this meeting. | |
| Report - 16.1 Avon Fire Authority report | |
| Report - 16.2 Avon and Somerset Police and Crime Panel report | |
| 17 | Political Balance Update |
| Head of Legal and Democratic Services to report | |
| 18 | Council Outside Body Appointments 2020/21 – Birnbeck Regeneration Trust |
| Appointments to outside bodies are approved by Council at the Annual Meeting in May each year. As members will be aware this year’s Annual Meeting was postponed due to Coronavirus and, in line with the Coronavirus regulations, all appointments will continue until the next Annual Meeting or until such time as the Council otherwise determines. In May 2019 two members were appointed to the Birnbeck Regeneration Trust, namely Councillors John Ley-Morgan and Robert Payne. Councillor Ley-Morgan has recently resigned from the Trust creating a vacancy. Councillor Solomon has been put forward by the Independent Group as his replacement on the Trust. Council is invited to approve an appointment to the Trust until the next Annual Council meeting. | |
| 19 | Birnbeck Pier – Approval to make Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) |
| Report of Councillor Davies (attached) | |
| Report - 19 Birnbeck Pier CPO | |
| 20 | Urgent business permitted by the Local Government Act 1972 (if any) |
| For a matter to be considered as an urgent item, the following question must be addressed: 'What harm to the public interest would flow from leaving it until the next meeting?' If harm can be demonstrated, then it is open to the Chairman to rule that it be considered as urgent. Otherwise the matter cannot be considered urgent within the statutory provisions. | |
| Minutes | |