Agenda and minutes

a)  The Lord Mayor reported the recent death of Mrs Joyce Wainwright.

b)  The Lord Mayor informed Council of the recent Freedom Parade for HMS Ark Royal and made reference to the possible formation of a ‘Friends of Ark Royal’ Group.

c)  The Lord Mayor referred Members to the robustness reports of the Director of Resources in respect of the submitted amendments.

To confirm the minutes of the Council Meetings held on 19^th and 26^th January 2011.

It was moved by Councillor Gruen, seconded by Councillor J Procter and

RESOLVED – That the minutes of the meetings held on 19^th and 26^th January 2011 be approved.

To receive any declarations of interest from Members

The Chief Executive thanked Council, Members, officers and the Police for their handling of the occupation of the Chamber by demonstrators causing the delay to the start of this meeting.

To consider reports as follows (the Monitoring Officer considers that these reports are appropriate to be received at this meeting in accordance with Council Procedure Rule 2.2(f))

a)  That the report of the Assistant Chief Executive (Corporate Governance) on amendments to the officer delegation scheme(executive functions) in accordance with Executive Procedure Rule 1.4  and other consequential amendments be noted.

P GRUEN

  b)  That the following nominations for receipt of the Leeds award be approved and that the Lord Mayor be requested to undertake an appropriate award ceremony:-

  Hillary Wilmer

  Glynis Homes

K WAKEFIELD

a)  Amendments to Officer Delegation Scheme (Executive Functions)

It was moved by Councillor Gruen, seconded by Councillor J Procter and

RESOLVED – That the report of the Assistant Chief Executive (Corporate Governance) on amendments to the Officer Delegation Scheme (Executive Functions) and other consequential amendments to the Constitution, as detailed in the report, be noted.

b)  Leeds Award

It was moved by Councillor Wakefield, seconded by Councillor Gruen and

RESOLVED – That the nominations for the receipt of the Leeds Award be approved and that the Lord Mayor be requested to undertake an appropriate ceremony:-

-  Hillary Wilmer

-  Glynis Homes

That the recommendations of the General Purposes Committee, as contained in the report of the Assistant Chief Executive (Corporate Governance) be approved.

  K WAKEFIELD 

It was moved by Councillor Wakefield, seconded by Councillor Gruen, and

RESOLVED – That the recommendations of the General Purposes Committee to approve amendments to the Chief Planning Officer’s Scheme of Delegation, as detailed in the report of the Assistant Chief Executive (Corporate Governance), be approved.

It was moved by Councillor Gruen and seconded by Councillor J Procter that Council Procedure Rule 14.7(b) be suspended to allow Councillor A Carter to move, and Councillor J Procter to second, amendments 1 to 12 en bloc, and to allow Councillor Golton to move, and Councillor Hamilton to second, amendments 13 to 19 en bloc.

RESOLVED – That Council Procedure Rule 14.7(b) be suspended to allow Councillor A Carter to move, and Councillor J Procter to second, amendments 1 to 12 en bloc, and to allow Councillor Golton to move, and Councillor Hamilton to second, amendments 13 to 19 en bloc.

(i)  Revenue Budget

a)  That the Revenue Budget for 2011/12 totalling £582.228m,  as detailed and explained in the submitted report and accompanying papers be approved, with no increase in the Leeds’ element of the Council Tax for 2011/12.

b)  That with respect to the Housing Revenue Account the following be approved:-

i)  approve the budget at the average rent increase figure of  6.84%

ii)  increase the charges for garage rents to £6.49 per week

iii)  increase service charges in line with rents (6.84%)

(ii)    Council Tax 

  1  That it be noted that at the meeting on 19^th January 2011, Council agreed the following amounts for the year 2011/12, in accordance with regulations made under Sections 33(5) and 34(4) of the Local Government Finance Act 1992:-

a)   238,247 being the amount calculated by the Council, in accordance with Regulation 3 of the Local Authorities (Calculation of Council Tax Base) Regulations 1992 (as amended) as its Council Tax base for the year.

b) 

being the amounts calculated by the Council in accordance with Regulation 6 of the Regulations, as the amounts of its Council Tax base for the year for dwellings in those parts of its area to which one or more special items relate.

2  That the following amounts be now calculated by the Council for the year 2011/12 in accordance with Sections 32 to 36 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992:-

a) £2,020,745,851  being the aggregate of the amounts which the Council estimates for the items set out in Section 32(2)(a) to (e) of the Act.

b) £1,437,070,000  being the aggregate of the amounts which the Council estimates for the items set out in Section 32(3)(a) to (c) of the Act.

c) £583,675,851  being the amount by which the aggregate at 2(a) above exceeds the aggregate at 2(b) above, calculated by the Council, in accordance with Section 32(4) of the Act, as its budget requirement for the year.

d) £314,560,775  being the aggregate of the sums which the Council estimates will be payable for the year into its general fund in respect of redistributed Non-Domestic Rates and Revenue Support Grant, reduced by the amount which the Council estimates will be transferred from its General Fund into its Collection Fund under Section 97(4) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988.

e) £1,129.563336  being the amount at 2(c) above, less the amount at 2(d) above, all divided by the amount at 1(a) above, calculated by the Council, in  ...  view the full agenda text for item 79.

To receive the minutes in accordance with Council Procedure Rule 2.2(o)

  K WAKEFIELD

It was moved by Councillor Wakefield, seconded by Councillor Gruen, and

RESOLVED – That the minutes be received in accordance with Council Procedure Rule 2.2(i).

Council Procedure Rule 4, providing for the winding up of business, was applied prior to all notified comments on the minutes having been debated.

Council rose at 7.15 pm.