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Agenda, decisions and minutes

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Items
No. Item

39.

Apologies for absence

Minutes:

Received from Councillors Mouna Hamitouche, Anjna Khurana and Diarmaid Ward.

40.

Declaration of substitute members

Minutes:

None.

41.

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.

42.

Minutes of the previous meeting pdf icon PDF 81 KB

Additional documents:

Decision:

CONFIRMED as a correct record

Minutes:

RESOLVED:

That the minutes of the meeting held on 26 March 2019 be confirmed as an accurate record of proceedings and the Chair be authorised to sign them.

43.

Community Festivals Fund awards 2018/19 pdf icon PDF 198 KB

Decision:

 

            AGREED recommendations.

 

Reasons for decision – as specified in the report

Other options considered – none

            Conflicts of interest/Any dispensations granted – none

Minutes:

 

RESOLVED:

That grants of £2,500 from the £10,000 Community Festival Fund be awarded to each of the following applicants for the following community festivals:

 

(a) All Change (on behalf of Word2019 Festival) – Word2019 – 17-30 June 2019 and 7-12 October 2019

(b) Canal and River Trust (on behalf of Angel Canal Festival) – Angel Canal Festival – 1 September 2019

(c) City YMCA (on behalf of Whitecross Street Party) – Whitecross Street Party –

13-14 July 2019

(d) Islington Play Association (on behalf of Cally Fest) – The Cally Festival – 23 June 2019

 

Reason 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

Officers had considered a total of 19 applications.

 

Conflicts of interest/Any dispensations agreed

None.