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Contact: Governance Services Unit 

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89.

Announcements

Minutes:

a)  The Lord Mayor congratulated Leeds Rhinos on becoming World Club Champions following the recent victory over the Manly Sea Eagles.

 

b)  The Lord Mayor reported the recent death of Graham Wilson, Environmental Health Manager, and Council stood in silent tribute.

 

90.

Minutes pdf icon PDF 214 KB

To confirm the minutes of the Council Meeting held on 18th January 2012.

Minutes:

It was moved by Councillor J Lewis, seconded by Councillor Lobley and

 

RESOLVED – That the minutes of the meeting held on 18th January 2012 be approved.

 

91.

Communications

To receive such communications as the Lord Mayor, the Leader, Members of the Executive Board or the Chief Executive consider appropriate

Minutes:

There were no communications.

 

92.

Declarations of Interest

To receive any declarations of interest from Members

 

Minutes:

The Lord Mayor announced that a list of written declarations submitted by Members was on display in the ante-room, on deposit in the public galleries and had been circulated to each Member’s place in the Chamber.

 

Following an invitation to declare further individual interests, declarations in accordance with the Council’s Members’ Code of Conduct were made as follows:- 

 

a)  Members declared personal interests in minute 95 of this meeting as follows:-

 

Information redacted for further details contact the Head of Democratic Services.

 

 

b)  Councillor Leadley declared a personal interest in minute 97 of this meeting as the Chairman of Planning, Morley Town Council.

 

93.

Motion to Suspend Council Procedure Rules

Minutes:

It was moved by Councillor J Lewis and seconded by Councillor Lobley that Council Procedure Rule 14.7(b) be suspended to allow Councillor A Carter to move, and Councillor J Procter to second, amendments 1-6 en bloc, and to allow Councillor Golton to move, and Councillor Downes to second, amendments 7-10 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 1-6 en bloc, and to allow Councillor Golton to move, and Councillor Downes to second, amendments 7-10 en bloc.

 

94.

Motion to Suspend Council Procedure Rules

Minutes:

It was moved by Councillor J Lewis and seconded by Councillor Lobley that Council Procedure Rule 14.5 be suspended in order that time limits are not imposed on budget speeches of Group Leaders in the budget debate.

 

RESOLVED – That Council Procedure Rule 14.5 be suspended in order that time limits are not imposed on budget speeches of Group Leaders in the budget debate.

 

95.

Budget pdf icon PDF 60 KB

i)  Revenue Budget

 

a)  That the Revenue Budget for 2012/13 totalling £563.114m, 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 2012/13.

 

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

 

i)  approve the budget at the average rent increase figure of 6.82%

 

ii)  increase the charges for garage rents to £6.93 per week

 

iii)  increase service charges in line with rents (6.82%)

 

ii)  Council Tax

 

1)   That it be noted that at the meeting on 18th January 2012, Council agreed the following amounts for the year 2012/13, in accordance with regulations made under Sections 31B(3) and 34(4) of the Local Government Finance Act 1992:-

 

a)   240,051 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)

  PARISH

TAX BASE

Aberford and District

785

AllertonBywater

1,382

Alwoodley

3,696

Arthington

294

Austhorpe

26

Bardsey cum Rigton

1,173

Barwick in Elmet and Scholes

2,046

Boston Spa

1,865

Bramham cum Oglethorpe

732

Bramhope and Carlton

1,805

Clifford

751

Collingham with Linton

1,672

Drighlington

1,912

Gildersome

1,971

Great and Little Preston

494

Harewood

1,806

Horsforth

7,006

East Keswick

586

Kippax

3,090

Ledsham

97

Ledston

164

Micklefield

565

Morley

9,911

Otley

4,973

Pool in Wharfedale

977

Scarcroft

679

Shadwell

962

Swillington

1,077

Thorner

765

Thorp Arch

356

Walton

123

Wetherby

4,639

Wothersome

9

 

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 2012/13 in accordance with Sections 31A to 36 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992:-

 

a)  £1,992,660,642.40  being the aggregate of the amounts which the Council estimates for the items set out in Section 31A(2)(a) to (f) of the Act.

 

b)  £1,721,533,274.00  being the aggregate of the amounts which the Council estimates for the items set out in Section 31A(3)(a) to (d) of the Act.

 

c)  £271,127,368.40  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 31A(4) of the Act, as its council tax requirement for the year.

 

d)  £1,129.457359  being the amount at 2(c) above, divided by the amount at 1(a) above, calculated by the Council, in accordance with Section 31B(1) of the Act, as the basic amount of its council tax for the year.

 

e)  £1,432,642.40  being the aggregate amount of all special items referred to in Section 34(1) of the Act.

 

f)  £1,123.49  being the amount at 2(d) above, less the result given by dividing the amount at 2(e) above by the amount at 1(a) above, calculated by the  ...  view the full agenda text for item 95.

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Under the provision of Council Procedure Rule 14.10, leave of Council was given to:-

 

·  Alter paragraph (ii) 3 by the deletion of the words “are expected to issue” and  replacement with “have issued” and by the deletion of the following wording, “The actual precept amounts are not available at the time of writing, so the figures shown are indicative only and assume no change from 2011/12. The final figures will be set out in the Council Summons and/or the Order Paper available at the meeting.”

·  Replace the table in (ii) 3 now that the precepts have been agreed by the West Yorkshire Police Authority  and the West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Authority.

·  Alter paragraph (ii) 4 by the deletion of the following wording, “As the amounts for the Police Authority and the Fire and Rescue authority are not available at the time of writing, the figures shown below are indicative only.  A final version of this table will be available in the Council Summons and/or the Order Paper available at the meeting.”

 

(The altered paragraphs are as contained in the motion below.)

 

It was moved by Councillor Wakefield, seconded by Councillor R Lewis

 

i)  Revenue Budget

 

a)  That the Revenue Budget for 2012/13 totalling £563.114m, 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 2012/13.

 

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

 

i)  approve the budget at the average rent increase figure of 6.82%

 

ii)  increase the charges for garage rents to £6.93 per week

 

iii)  increase service charges in line with rents (6.82%)

 

ii)  Council Tax

 

1)   That it be noted that at the meeting on 18th January 2012, Council agreed the following amounts for the year 2012/13, in accordance with regulations made under Sections 31B(3) and 34(4) of the Local Government Finance Act 1992:-

 

a)   240,051 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)

  PARISH

TAX BASE

Aberford and District

785

AllertonBywater

1,382

Alwoodley

3,696

Arthington

294

Austhorpe

26

Bardsey cum Rigton

1,173

Barwick in Elmet and Scholes

2,046

Boston Spa

1,865

Bramham cum Oglethorpe

732

Bramhope and Carlton

1,805

Clifford

751

Collingham with Linton

1,672

Drighlington

1,912

Gildersome

1,971

Great and Little Preston

494

Harewood

1,806

Horsforth

7,006

East Keswick

586

Kippax

3,090

Ledsham

97

Ledston

164

Micklefield

565

Morley

9,911

Otley

4,973

Pool in Wharfedale

977

Scarcroft

679

Shadwell

962

Swillington

1,077

Thorner

765

Thorp Arch

356

Walton

123

Wetherby

4,639

Wothersome

9

 

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  ...  view the full minutes text for item 95.

96.

Reports pdf icon PDF 53 KB

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 City Solicitor on appointments be approved.

 

    J LEWIS

 

b)  That the report of the City Solicitor on the date of the Annual Meeting 2011 be approved.

 

J LEWIS

Additional documents:

Minutes:

a)  Appointments

 

It was moved by Councillor J Lewis, seconded by Councillor Lobley and

 

RESOLVED – That the report of the City Solicitor on appointments be approved, namely:-

 

·  That Councillor C Fox replace Councillor Lobley on Scrutiny Board (Sustainable Economy and Culture).

 

·  That Councillor Wadsworth replace Councillor Robinson on Scrutiny Board (Sustainable Economy and Culture).

 

b)  Annual Meeting Date

 

It was moved by Councillor J Lewis, seconded by Councillor Lobley and

 

RESOLVED – That Council approves the change of date of this year’s Annual Meeting to Monday, 21st May 2012.

 

97.

Minutes

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

Minutes:

It was moved by Councillor Wakefield, seconded by Councillor J Lewis, that the minutes be received in accordance with Council Procedure Rule 2.2(i).

 

An amendment (reference back) was moved by Councillor Leadley, seconded by Councillor Finnigan, to add the following at the end of item 6:-

 

To ask the Executive Board to reconsider the decision in relation to the LDF Core Strategy – Publication Document, as contained in minute 197, page 10 of the Executive Board minutes of 10th February 2012.

 

The amendment was declared lost and, upon being put to the vote, it was

 

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

 

On the requisitions of Councillors Finnigan and Leadley, the voting on the amendment (reference back) was recorded as follows:-

 

PRESENT   94

 

YES

 

Bentley, Campbell, Chapman, Chastney, Cleasby, Downes, Elliott, Ewens, Finnigan, Gettings, Golton, M Hamilton, Kirkland, Leadley, Matthews, Pryke, Townsley, Varley, Wilson.

19

 

NO

 

Akhtar, Anderson, Armitage, Atha, Blake, Bruce, A Carter, J L Carter, Castle, Charlwood, Cohen, Collins, Congreve, Coulson, Davey, Dawson, Dobson, Dowson, Driver, Dunn, Feldman, Fox, Gabriel, P Grahame, R Grahame, Groves, Gruen, S Hamilton, Hanley, Hardy, G Harper, J Harper, Harrand, A Hussain, G Hussain, G Hyde, W Hyde, Illingworth, Iqbal, Jarosz, Khan, Lamb, G Latty, P Latty, J Lewis, R Lewis, Lobley, Lowe, Lyons, MacNiven, Maqsood, Marjoram, A McKenna, J McKenna, Mitchell, Morgan, Mulherin, Murray, Nash, Ogilvie, J Procter, Rafique, Renshaw, Robinson, Selby, Taggart, E Taylor, Wadsworth, Wakefield, Walshaw, Wilkinson, Wood, Yeadon.

73

 

ABSTAIN

 

A Blackburn, D Blackburn

2

 

 

 

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

 

98.

Closing Remarks

Minutes:

The Lord Mayor congratulated Councillor Mitchell on the recent birth of Callum, and Council passed on their best wishes to Councillor Mitchell and family.