Agenda item

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

The Lord Mayor informed Council that there was no time available to debate the Executive Board minutes.

Councillor Blake moved that the minutes be received in accordance with Council Procedure Rule 2.2(i), seconded by Councillor Ogilvie.

An amendment was moved by Councillor J Bentley, seconded by Councillor Campbell

To add the following at the end of item 8:

‘To ask the Executive Board to reconsider the decision in relation to ‘Improving standards in the private rented sector – consideration for selective licensing’, contained in minute 141 of the Executive Board minutes of 7^th February 2018’

A second amendment was moved by Councillor Andrew Carter, seconded by Councillor Robinson

 To add the following at the end of item 8:

To ask the Executive Board to reconsider the decision in relation to the ‘Financial Health Monitoring 2017/18 – Month 9’ Report contained at minute 148 of the Executive Board minutes of 7 February 2018. Council is concerned that debt levels, at £2.4bn including PFI, in both the medium term and beyond are becoming unsustainable. Therefore Council asks Executive Board to consider additional measures to monitor the Council’s debt levels as part of the regular financial health monitoring reports that come to Executive Board.

Council also calls for a wider formal dialogue with appropriate scrutiny boards into the implications of the current debt levels held by Leeds City Council.

Upon being put to the vote both amendments (reference back x 2) were 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 requisition of Councillor Campbell, seconded by Councillor G Latty the voting on both amendments (reference back x 2) were recorded as follows;

Reference back in name of Cllr J Bentley

Yes -18

J Bentley, S Bentley, A Blackburn, D Blackburn, Campbell,  Chapman, Cleasby, C Dobson, M Dobson, Downes, Elliott, Finnigan, Gettings, Golton, Leadley, Lay, Varley and Wilford,

No- 54

Akhtar, Arif, Blake, Bruce, Charlwood, Congreve, Coulson, Coupar, Davey, Gabriel, Garthwaite, P Grahame, R Grahame, Groves, C Gruen,  P Gruen, Hamilton, Harland, Harper, Hayden, Heselwood, A Hussain, G Hussain, Hyde, Illingworth, Iqbal, Jarosz, Khan, J Lewis, R Lewis, Lowe, Macniven, Maqsood, J McKenna, S McKenna, Mulherin, Nagle, Nash, Ogilvie, Pryor, Rafique, Ragan, Renshaw, Ritchie, Selby, Smart,  E Taylor, Towler, Truswell, Tunnicliffe, Venner, Wakefield, Walshaw, and Yeadon.

ABSTAIN – 19

B Anderson, C Anderson, Buckley, Amanda Carter, Andrew Carter, Cohen, Collins, Dunn, Flynn, Harrand, Lamb, G Latty, P Latty, J Procter , Robinson, Stephenson Wadsworth, Wilkinson and Wood

Reference back in name of Cllr Andrew Carter

Yes -36

B Anderson, C Anderson, J Bentley, S Bentley, A Blackburn, D Blackburn, Buckley, Campbell,  Amanda Carter, Andrew Carter, Chapman, Cleasby, Cohen, Collins, C Dobson, M Dobson, Downes, Elliott, Finnigan, Flynn, Gettings, Golton, Harrand, Lamb, G Latty, P Latty, Lay, Leadley, J Procter, Robinson, Stephenson, Varley, Wadsworth, Wilford, Wilkinson and Wood

No – 54

Akhtar, Arif, Blake, Bruce, Charlwood, Congreve, Coulson, Coupar, Davey, Gabriel, Garthwaite, P Grahame, R Grahame, Groves, C Gruen,  P Gruen, Hamilton, Harland, Harper, Hayden, Heselwood, A Hussain, G Hussain, Hyde, Illingworth, Iqbal, Jarosz, Khan, J Lewis, R Lewis, Lowe, Macniven, Maqsood, J McKenna, S McKenna, Mulherin, Nagle, Nash, Ogilvie, Pryor, Rafique, Ragan, Renshaw, Ritchie, Selby, Smart,  E Taylor, Towler, Truswell, Tunnicliffe, Venner, Wakefield, Walshaw, and Yeadon.

Abstain - 1

Dunn