Agenda, decisions and minutes

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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.

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Confirmed as a correct record

RESOLVED:

That the minutes of the meeting held on 16 March 2015 be confirmed as a correct record and the Chair be authorised to sign them.

A revised Appendix A was laid round.

AGREED 1. Recommendations in the report of the Executive Member for Economic and Community Development, including the funding proposals detailed in revised Appendix A

2. That organisations in receipt of Local Initiatives funding be encouraged to pay a Living Wage to their staff

3. That Councillors be encouraged to adhere to the deadlines for submission of proposals for Local Initiatives funding and  to be pro-active in submitting proposals for funding throughout the year, in order to obviate pressures to use up funds at the end of the financial year

Reasons for decision – as specified in the report

Other options considered – none

Conflicts of interest/Any dispensations granted – none

A revised Appendix A was laid round.

AGREED 1. Recommendations in the report of the Executive Member for Economic and Community Development, including the funding proposals detailed in revised Appendix A

  2. That organisations in receipt of Local Initiatives funding be encouraged to pay a 

  Living Wage to their staff

  3. That Councillors be encouraged to adhere to the deadlines for submission of

  proposals for Local Initiatives funding and to be pro-active in submitting proposals

  for funding throughout the year, in order to obviate pressures to use

  up funds at the end of the financial year

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