Additional Circulation
Second Additional Circulation
ABERDEEN
CITY COUNCIL
To: All Members of the Council
Town House,
ABERDEEN, 9th September, 2008
COUNCIL MEETING
The Members of ABERDEEN CITY COUNCIL are requested to meet here in the Town House onWEDNESDAY, 17th SEPTEMBER, 2008 at 2.00pm.
RODERICK MACBEATH
HEAD OF DEMOCRATIC SERVICES
B U S I N E S S
1. Admission of Burgesses
MINUTES OF COUNCIL
2. (a) Minute of Special Meeting of Council of 28th July 2008 - for approval (circulated separately)
(b) Minute of Meeting of Council of 13th August 2008 - for approval (circulated separately)
MINUTES OF STANDING COMMITTEES
3. (a) Pamphlet of Minutes for 4th July - 21st August 2008 - for information (circulated separately)
OTHER MINUTES
* 4. (a)Minute of Meeting of Urgent Business Committee of 1st August 2008 - for approval
* (b) Minute of Meeting of Urgent Business Committee of 6th August 2008 - for approval
REFERRALS FROM COMMITTEES
* 5. (a)Budget Monitoring Board of 5th September 2008 - 2008/09 Non Housing Capital Programme Review - Report by City Chamberlain
(Minute of the Board’s recommendations to follow)
GENERAL BUSINESS
6. (a) Chief Executive’s Progress Report
Would members please note that this report has been circulated separately.
(b) Leadership Board Update - Report by Chief Executive (to follow)
* (c)Revised Scrutiny Panel Remit and Continuous Improvement Committee Orders of Reference - for approval
* (e) Arena Community Stadium - Report by Head of Planning and Infrastructure - Appendix to report on Second Additional
QUESTIONS
7. (a) Councillor Young
To the Convener of Policy and Strategy
(1) “To ask the Policy and Strategy Convener to converse with the Education spokesperson to confirm or otherwise if the shadow Education spokesperson, Councillor Jennifer Stewart, exchanged views with the Education spokesperson or indeed the Convener of Policy and Strategy with regards to the general principle of naming new schools, and if a conversation did take place can the Policy and Strategy Convener advise the Council on the nature of that conversation with regards to the Administration’s policy on the naming of new schools?”
(2) “To ask the Policy and Strategy Convener if she recalls telling Tommy Campbell of the Unite Union that there would be nowhere near 1,000 redundancies from Aberdeen City Council. On the basis that all Council staff are currently being asked if they wish to be considered for voluntary redundancy can the Policy and Strategy Convener and Leader of this Council confirm how many employees the Council are looking to offer redundancy to?”
(3) “To ask the Policy and Strategy Convener to confirm why according to the Scottish Government latest statistics the Council she leads has the highest rent arrears in Scotland?”
To the Convener of Resources Management
(1) “To ask the Resources Management Convener if he agrees or otherwise with the Finance Secretary John Swinney that he was first made aware of the £50million budget cuts some three months ago and would he confirm to this Council on what day did the Council make the Scottish Government fully aware of the £50million budget deficit?”
MOTIONS
8. (a) Councillor Clark (deferred from previous meeting)
“That the Council congratulates the staff involved for their performance in relation to cleaning statistics for reaching the targets previously set for this important aspect of work, which has been continued for some months to sustain this level of targets.
That the Council consider if the targets should be revised to a level to ensure that the service to the citizens of Aberdeen is nothing below the best, and that a report be submitted to the relevant committee in this regard for consideration.”
(b) Councillor Reynolds
“With the ever increasing energy costs being experienced by domestic users, this Council calls upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer to remove, as a matter of urgency, the 5% VAT levied on domestic electricity and gas bills, thereby assisting some of the country’s poorest households. The Council also calls on the EU to change the rules to allow the UK to remove this element of VAT from domestic energy bills. And that officers advise other UK local authorities of our decision and enlist their support.
REPORTS NOT FOR PUBLICATION
* 9. (a) Budget Monitoring Board of 5th September 2008 - Food and Garden Waste Collection - Report by Head of Economic and Environmental Sustainability - the Board recommended to the Council to support the proposals contained within the report
* circulated herewith
Should you require any further information about this agenda, please contact Martyn Orchard by telephone on 523097 or at morchard@aberdeencity.gov.uk
