Agenda and minutes

To approve as a correct record the minutes of the meeting of the Council held on 17 January 2019.

Agreed (by 28 votes to 5) that the minutes of the Council meeting held on 17 January 2019 be confirmed as a correct record.

To receive any declarations of interest from any Member on any item on this agenda.

None.

To receive any announcements from the Mayor, Leader of the Council, Deputy Leader of the Council, Members of the Cabinet, a Chairman of a Committee or the Chief Executive.

1.    The Mayor announced that a concert by the Blackpool Male Voice Choir in aid of the Mayoral Charities was to be held at St Peter and St Davids’ Church, Lord Street, Fleetwood on Thursday 14 March 2019 at 7 pm.

2.    The Mayor reminded Members of arrangements for the Mayor’s Ball on 8 March 2019. She thanked Regenda for donating raffle prizes, and said that tickets for the raffle were still on sale.

3.    The Mayor also read out a message from Cllr R Duffy, updating Members on her cancer treatment and thanking all those who had sent messages of support. The Mayor expressed the Council’s best wishes to Councillor Duffy.

None received.

None received.

None received.

None received.

Report of the Leader of the Council (Cllr Henderson) and the Service Director Performance and Innovation.

The Leader of the Council (Cllr Henderson) and the Service Director Performance and Innovation submitted a report on the Council’s Pay Policy Statement for the 2019/20 financial year.

Cllr Henderson noted a request made by Cllr Fail during the debate on the report, that future Pay Policy Statements should include the actual number of apprentices or other employees under the age of twenty five paid the national minimum wage – if any.

Agreed (unanimously) that the Pay Policy Statement for 2019/20 be approved.

Report of the Leader of the Council (Cllr Henderson) and the Service Director Performance and Innovation.

The Leader of the Council (Cllr Henderson) and the Service Director Performance and Innovation submitted a report on the Council’s Business Plan for the period 2019 to 2023.

Cllr Henderson stated in a response to comments made by Cllr Fail during the debate, that the possibility of including a question in the Council’s bi-annual residents’ survey relating to travel to work would be considered.

Agreed (unanimously) that the Council’s Business Plan for 2019-2023 be approved.

Report of the Leader of the Council (Cllr Henderson).

Please note: The report of the Head of Finance (Section 151

Officer) on the Council’s Revenue Budget, Council Tax and

Capital Programme, which was considered by the Cabinet on

13 February 2019, forms part of the background to the

attached report of the Leader of the Council, with paragraph

3.1 seeking Council agreement to the recommendations of

the Cabinet. An extract from the minutes of that meeting,

setting out the Cabinet’s recommendations, is attached as

Appendix 1 of the Leader of the Council’s report to this

meeting. However, the detailed information from the report of

the Head of Finance report to the Cabinet in not reproduced

in this agenda. That report can be viewed via the Cabinet

agenda on the Council’s website at:

https://wyre.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s4870/Revenue%20Budget%20Council%20Tax%20and%20Capital%20Programme%20Report.pdf

(A copy can also be obtained on request from the Democratic

Services Team, tel: 01253 887481)

The Leader of the Council (Cllr Henderson) submitted a report on the setting of the Council Tax for 2019/20. His report included reference to the report of the Head of Finance (S 151 Officer) on the Revenue Budget, Council Tax and Capital Programme, which had been considered by the Cabinet at its meeting on 13 February 2019. The minute setting out the Cabinet’s recommendations was set out in Appendix 1 of his report to this Council meeting.

The Resources Portfolio Holder (Cllr A Vincent) seconded the Cllr Henderson’s proposal that the recommendations made by the Cabinet be approved.

Cllr Fail proposed and Cllr E Anderton seconded the following amendment:

“That a revenue contribution of up to £35,000 be made from general balances towards a Poulton to Fleetwood rail reinstatement feasibility study.”

The following members voted for the amendment: Councillors E Anderton, M Anderton, Barrowclough, Beavers, Fail, Gibson and Smith.

The following members voted against the amendment: I Amos, R Amos, Lady Atkins, Berry, B Birch, C Birch, Bowen, Bridge, Cartridge, Catterall, Collinson, Ellison, Greenhough, Henderson, Hodgkinson, Holden, Ibison, Ingham, Kay, Moon, Orme, Robinson, A Turner, S Turner, A Vincent, Matthew Vincent, Michael Vincent and Walmsley.

The amendment was therefore LOST (by 7 votes to 28).

A vote was then taken on the Cabinet’s recommendations on the budget for 2019/20 and on the level of the Council Tax as set out in paragraphs 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 and 3.4 of the Leader’s report.

The following members voted in support of the proposal: I Amos, R Amos, Lady Atkins, Berry, B Birch, C Birch, Bowen, Bridge, Cartridge, Catterall, Collinson, Ellison, Greenhough, Henderson, Hodgkinson, Holden, Ibison, Ingham, Kay, Moon, Orme, Robinson, A Turner, S Turner, A Vincent, Matthew Vincent, Michael Vincent and Walmsley.

The following members voted against the proposal: Councillors E Anderton, M Anderton, Barrowclough, Beavers, Fail, Gibson and Smith.

The Mayor (Cllr M Anderton) abstained.

The proposal was therefore CARRIED (by 28 votes to 6 with 1 abstention) and it was

Agreed:

1.    That the formal Council Tax resolution as agreed by Cabinet 13 February 2019, as set out in Appendix 1 of the Leader’s report and also attached as Appendix 1 to these minutes, be approved.

2.    That this Council’s Band D equivalent Council Tax for the 2019/20 financial year of £199.74 together with parish precepts, as specified in the report on the Budget, be approved for each of the valuation bands, as set out in Table A of Appendix 2 to these minutes.

3.    That it be noted that for the year 2019/20 the major precepting authorities had stated the amounts of their respective precepts, in accordance with Section 40 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992, for each of the categories of dwellings in the Council’s area, as shown in Table B of Appendix 2 of these minutes.

4.    That, having calculated the aggregate in each case of the amounts at 2 and 3 above, and in accordance with Sections  ...  view the full minutes text for item 83.

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