Minutes for Council meeting, Mar 3 2011, 6.30PM official page

Members and Officers are requested to give notice of any personal or prejudicial interest and the nature of that interest, relating to any item on the agenda in accordance with the relevant Code of Conduct.

Minutes of the meeting held on 27 January 2011

The details of two petitions submitted in accordance with the Council’s Petition Scheme are attached. The petitions request the Council to:

 

1)       reverse the decision taken by the Council on 27 January 2011, to stop the funding of the seven Local Authority Youth Centres; reconsider the cessation of the Duke of Edinburgh Awards Scheme, and make no further cuts to Tier 2 funding of youth services

 

2)       reduce and/or defer the budget saving of £3m required from the Sefton New Directions budget to allow further and proper meaningful discussions to take place around service provision and terms and conditions

 

A representative of each deputation will be permitted to speak for up to five minutes in support of their petition

 

(The details of any further Petitions submitted by members of the public will be circulated at the meeting)

To receive and consider questions to Cabinet Members, Chairs of Committees or Spokespersons for any of the Joint Authorities upon any matter within their portfolio/area of responsibility, of which notice has been given in accordance with Rule 12 of the Council and Committee Procedure Rules.

Report of the Assistant Chief Executive

Report of the Director of Corporate Services

Report of the Chief Executive and Section 151 Officer

Report of the Chief Executive and Section 151 Officer

Joint report of the Interim Head of Corporate Finance and ICT Strategy and the Strategic Directors – Children, Schools and Families; Communities; and Social Care and Wellbeing

Report of the Chief Executive and Section 151 Officer

To receive statements by the three Party Group Leaders on the Revenue Budget for 20011/12

Report of the Chief Executive and Section 151 Officer

Report of the Chief Executive and Section 151 Officer

 

A copy of the draft Budget Resolution will be circulated at the Council meeting

To consider any changes to the Membership of any committees etc.

To consider the following Motion submitted by Councillor P. Dowd:

 

“That the Council recognises the concerns expressed in a letter to The Times Newspaper of 10 February 2011, by 91 Liberal Democrat Council Group Leaders, that the Coalition Government’s frontloading of their cuts to local government are too big and are proceeding too quickly. The Council also recognises that the Government should deploy all its efforts to help Councils’ minimise the impact on vulnerable communities and frontline services.

 

Furthermore, the Council would wish to discuss with the Secretary of State how it could take on the difficult challenges shared by all levels of government and would prefer to do this through dialogue.  Therefore, the Council requests that the three MPs for Sefton assist in organising a tripartite meeting with the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, the three Party Leaders and the MPs themselves.”

 

Report of the Assistant Chief Executive