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Agenda, decisions and minutes

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Items
No. Item

1.

Apologies for absence

Minutes:

Received from Councillor Hull.

2.

Declaration of substitute members

Minutes:

Councillor Burgess substituted for Councillor Hull.

3.

Declarations of interest

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 Hull was present at the beginning of the meeting but, having declared a Discloseable Pecuniary Interest in agenda items B1 (Local Initiatives Fund) and B2 (Islington Community Chest grant awards – round one 2014/15), as a trustee of the organisation “Back 2 Basics”, he left the meeting.

 

Councillor Ismail also declared a Discloseable Pecuniary Interest in agenda items B1 (Local Initiatives Fund) and B2 (Islington Community Chest grant awards – round one 2014/15), as a trustee of the organisation “Back 2 Basics”, and left the room during consideration of those items.

 

 

4.

Minutes of the previous meeting pdf icon PDF 47 KB

Additional documents:

Minutes:

RESOLVED:

That the minutes of the meeting held on 17 March 2014 be confirmed as a correct record and the Chair be authorised to sign them.

5.

Local Initiatives Fund pdf icon PDF 104 KB

Additional documents:

Decision:

A revised Appendix A was laid round.

 

AGREED recommendations in the report of the Executive Member for Community Development, including the funding proposals detailed in the 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 version of Appendix A was laid round, which set out full details of the bids received, which would be interleaved with the formal record of the meeting.

 

RESOLVED:

 

(a) That Local Initiatives Fund awards be approved as set out in revised Appendix A to the report of the Executive Member for  Community Development and attached to these minutes, subject to the Assistant Chief Executive (Strategy and Community Partnerships) being satisfied that all necessary checks have been made and any other issues resolved.

(b) That those Local Initiatives Fund applications received after 1 April 2014, approved under delegated authority to the Assistant Chief Executive (Strategy and Community Partnerships and also detailed in Appendix A of the report, be noted.

(c) That, subject to the Assistant Chief Executive (Strategy and Community Partnerships) being satisfied that all necessary checks have been made and any other issues resolved, authority be delegated to the Assistant Chief Executive (Strategy and Community Partnerships) to agree the allocation of up to £1,000 each for funding proposals for summer events and activities, received prior to the next Committee meeting.

(e) That the amendments to the 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/note of dispensations granted

None.

 

 

 

 

    

6.

Islington Community Chest grant awards - round one 2014/15 pdf icon PDF 145 KB

Additional documents:

Decision:

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

 

Reasons for decision – as specified in the report

Other options considered – none

Conflicts of interest/Any dispensations granted - none

 

Minutes:

RESOLVED:

 That Islington Community Chest grant awards be approved to the organisations detailed in Appendix A of the report of the Executive Member for Community Development.

 

Reason for decision

To enable funding to be directed towards meeting the needs of low income residents and disadvantaged communities.

 

Other options considered

None.

 

Conflicts of interest/note of dispensations granted

None.

 

7.

Scrutiny review - Supporting the Voluntary and Community Sector through procurement - 12 month report back pdf icon PDF 150 KB

Additional documents:

Decision:

AGREED recommendation

 

Reasons for decision – as specified in the report

Other options considered – none

Conflicts of interest/Any dispensations granted - none

 

Minutes:

RESOLVED:

That the action plan appended to the report of the Executive Member for Community Development and the Executive Member for Finance and Performance, detailing progress to date on the recommendations in the scrutiny report entitled “Supporting the local Voluntary and Community Sector in Islington through procurement”, be noted.

 

Reasons for decision

To keep members informed of progress.

 

Other options considered

None.

 

Conflicts of interest/note of any dispensations granted

None.