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Items
No. Item

78.

Apologies for absence

Minutes:

Received from Councillors Rakhia Ismail.and *Jean-Roger Kaseki

(*amendment made to the minutes at the meeting held on 21 April 2016)

79.

Declaration of substitute members

Minutes:

None.

80.

Declarations of interest

 

If you have a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest* in an item of business:

         if it is not yet on the council’s register, you must declare both the existence and details of it at the start of the meeting or when it becomes apparent;

         you may choose to declare a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest that is already in the register in the interests of openness and transparency. 

In both the above cases, you must leave the room without participating in discussion of the item.

 

If you have a personal interest in an item of business and you intend to speak or vote on the item you must declare both the existence and details of it at the start of the meeting or when it becomes apparent but you may participate in the discussion and vote on the item.

 

*(a)      Employment, etc - Any employment, office, trade, profession or vocation carried on for profit or gain.

(b)        Sponsorship - Any payment or other financial benefit in respect of your expenses in carrying out duties as a member, or of your election; including from a trade union.

(c)        Contracts - Any current contract for goods, services or works, between you or your partner (or a body in which one of you has a beneficial interest) and the council.

(d)        Land - Any beneficial interest in land which is within the council’s area.

(e)        Licences- Any licence to occupy land in the council’s area for a month or longer.

(f)        Corporate tenancies - Any tenancy between the council and a body in which you or your partner have a beneficial interest.

 (g) Securities - Any beneficial interest in securities of a body which has a place of business or land in the council’s area, if the total nominal value of the securities exceeds £25,000 or one hundredth of the total issued share capital of that body or of any one class of its issued share capital. 

 

This applies to all members present at the meeting.

 

Minutes:

None.

81.

Minutes of the previous meeting pdf icon PDF 124 KB

Additional documents:

Decision:

CONFIRMED

Minutes:

RESOLVED:

That the minutes of the meeting held on 25 January 2016 be confirmed as a correct record and the Chair be authorised to sign them.

82.

Local Initiatives Fund pdf icon PDF 187 KB

Additional documents:

Decision:

A revised Appendix A was laid round.

 

AGREED recommendations in the report of the Executive Member for Economic and Community Development, including the funding proposals detailed in revised Appendix A.

 

Reasons for decision – as specified in the report

Other options considered – none

Conflicts of interest/Any dispensations granted - none

Minutes:

A revised Appendix A was laid round.

 

RESOLVED:

(a) That the proposals for funding under the Local Initiatives Fund submitted by Ward councillors and detailed in revised Appendix A (attached to these minutes) of the report of the Executive Member for Economic and Community Development, be approved in principle, subject the Assistant Chief Executive (Governance and Human Resources) being satisfied that the necessary checks have been made and any other issues resolved.

(b) That the amendments to Ward budgets resulting from project funding being returned, detailed in Appendix A of the report, be also noted.

 

Reasons for decision

To assist in developing and sustaining a healthy voluntary and community sector in Islington.

 

Other options considered

None

 

Conflicts of interest/Any dispensations granted

None

83.

Islington Community Chest: round three grant awards 2015/16 pdf icon PDF 200 KB

Additional documents:

Decision:

The report was amended on submission as follows:

 

Replace the words “Round Two” with “Round Three” and “second” with “third” throughout the report.

 

 

AGREED recommendation in the report of the Executive Member for Economic and Community Development, as amended

 

Reasons for decision – as specified in the report

Other options considered – none

Conflicts of interest/Any dispensations granted - none

 

                          

Minutes:

The report was amended on submission as follows:

 

Replace the words “Round Two” with “Round Three” and “second” with “third” throughout the report.

 

 

RESOLVED:

That Islington Community Chest third round grant awards for 2015/16 be approved to the organisations detailed in Appendix A of the report of the Executive Member for Economic and Community Development.

 

Reasons for decision

To nurture and sustain an innovative and resilient voluntary and community sector in Islington, by providing resources for smaller organisations that find it hard to access funding from other programmes.

 

Other options considered

None

 

Conflicts of interest/Any dispensations granted

None

 

                          

84.

Community Festivals Fund 2016 pdf icon PDF 577 KB

Decision:

AGREED recommendation in the report of the Executive Member for Economic and Community Development

 

Reasons for decision – as specified in the report

Other options considered – none

Conflicts of interest/Any dispensations granted - none

 

 

 

Minutes:

RESOLVED:

That grants be awarded from the Community Festivals Fund for the sums indicated below and detailed in paragraph 3.7 of the report of the Executive Member for Economic and Community Development for the following community festivals:

 

Organisation

Festival

Amount

St Luke’s Community Centre

Whitecross Street Party

£3,000

All Change on behalf of Word2016

Word 2016 Festival

£1,500

Key Changes

Islington World Mental Health Day Festival

£2,800

Team Cally temporarily hosted by Islington Council

The Cally Festival

£3,000

ArchWay with Words

ArchWay with Words

£2,500

The Angel Canal Festival Management Group

Angel Canal Festival

£1,700

Oxjam Islington

Oxjam Islington Take Over

£1,500

 

 

Reasons for decision

To support local organisations to develop and deliver a broad range of events that would provide Borough-wide benefit for local residents.

 

Other options considered

None

 

Conflicts of interest/Any dispensations granted

None

 

 

 

85.

Islington Assembly Hall: free community use for 2016/17 pdf icon PDF 196 KB

Additional documents:

Decision:

AGREED recommendations in the report of the Executive Member for Economic and Community Development

 

Reasons for decision – as specified in the report

Other options considered – none

Conflicts of interest/Any dispensations granted - none

 

Minutes:

RESOLVED

(a) That one free hire of Islington Assembly Hall be allocated to the following organisations between July and September 2016:

 

·         MoveMe Dance

·         Cubitt Artists

·         Sports Islington

·         Copenhagen Youth Project

 

(b) That the following two organisations be held in reserve, in the event that any of the organisations listed in resolution (a) above are not able to negotiate appropriate dates and timings for use of the Assembly Hall:

 

·         Islington Council Choir

·         Creative Islington

 

Reasons for decision

The scheme provided an opportunity for the Council to support local organisations through free use of the Assembly Hall

 

Other options considered

None

 

Conflicts of interest/Any dispensations granted

None