Skip to content

Agenda, decisions and minutes

Venue: Town Hall, Upper Street, N1 2UD

Contact: Mary Green  (020) 7527 3005

Items
No. Item

86.

Apologies for absence

Minutes:

Received from Councillors Richard Watts and Rakhia Ismail.

87.

Declaration of substitute members

Minutes:

Councillor Claudia Webbe substituted for Councillor Richard Watts.

88.

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:

Councillor Claudia Webbe declared an interest in agenda item B1 – Local Initiatives Fund – as a trustee of City YMCA and a trustee of St Luke’s Parochial Trust.

89.

Minutes of the previous meeting pdf icon PDF 139 KB

Additional documents:

Decision:

Subject to the addition of Councillor Kaseki’s name to the list of apologies, CONFIRMED

Minutes:

RESOLVED:

That, subject to the addition of Councillor Kaseki’s name to the list of apologies, the minutes of the meeting held on 22 March 2016 be confirmed as a correct record and the chair be authorised to sign them.

90.

Local Initiatives Fund awards 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