Agenda and minutes

Annual Business Meeting, Council - Wednesday, 28th April, 2021 5.00 pm

Venue: Virtually via Microsoft Teams

Contact: Charlotte Kearsey 01246 345236

Items
No.	Item
52.	To approve as a correct record the Minutes of the meeting of the Council held on 24 February, 2021 PDF 385 KB Minutes: View the minutes text for item 52.
53.	Mayor's Communications Minutes: View the minutes text for item 53.
54.	Apologies for Absence Minutes: View the minutes text for item 54.
55.	Declarations of Members' and Officers' Interests relating to items on the Agenda. Minutes: View the minutes text for item 55.
56.	Public Questions to the Council To receive questions from members of the public in accordance with Standing Order No. 12. Minutes: View the minutes text for item 56.
57.	Petitions to Council To receive petitions submitted under Standing Order No. 13 Minutes: View the minutes text for item 57.
58.	Deputy Leader of the Council and Cabinet Appointments 2021/22 PDF 58 KB Additional documents: Deputy Leader and Cabinet 2021-22 Report (inc. names) , item 58. PDF 60 KB Minutes: View the minutes text for item 58.
59.	Committee Appointments 2021/22 PDF 106 KB Minutes: View the minutes text for item 59.
60.	Council's Delegation Scheme PDF 94 KB Additional documents: Appendix 1 - Constitution - Document Control - April 2021 , item 60. PDF 311 KB Minutes: View the minutes text for item 60.
61.	Questions to the Leader To receive questions submitted to the Leader under Standing Order No.14 Minutes: View the minutes text for item 61.
62.	Consideration of business outstanding from the Council Meeting held on 24 February, 2021 (see Items marked '*' below) Minutes: View the minutes text for item 62.
63.	Organisational Development Strategy and Programme PDF 282 KB View the background to item 63. Additional documents: APPENDIX A - Organisational Development Strategy V1.0 , item 63. PDF 859 KB APPENDIX B - Corporate Project Mgt framework V1.0 , item 63. PDF 786 KB APPENDIX C - Job Descriptions Personal Sepcifications (amended version) , item 63. PDF 494 KB Minutes: View the minutes text for item 63.
64.	Minutes of Committee Meetings PDF 45 KB To receive for information the Minutes of the following meetings:- Appeals and Regulatory Committee Employment and General Committee Licensing Committee Planning Committee Standards and Audit Committee Minutes: View the minutes text for item 64.
65.	To receive the Minutes of the meetings of the Cabinet of 15 December, 2020, 12 January, 2021, 2 February, 2021, 9 February, 2021, 23 February, 2021 and 16 March, 2021 PDF 331 KB Additional documents: Minutes , 12/01/2021 Cabinet , item 65. PDF 287 KB Minutes , 02/02/2021 Cabinet , item 65. PDF 277 KB Minutes , 09/02/2021 Cabinet , item 65. PDF 264 KB Minutes , 23/02/2021 Cabinet , item 65. PDF 304 KB Minutes , 16/03/2021 Cabinet , item 65. PDF 274 KB Minutes: View the minutes text for item 65.
66.	To receive the Minutes of the meeting of the Joint Cabinet and Employment and General Committee of *12 January, 2021 PDF 274 KB Minutes: View the minutes text for item 66.
67.	To receive and adopt the Minutes of the meetings of the Overview and Performance Scrutiny Forum of 19 November, 2020, 17 December, 2020 and 21 January, 2021 PDF 360 KB Additional documents: Minutes , 17/12/2020 Overview and Performance Scrutiny Forum , item 67. PDF 297 KB Minutes , 21/01/2021 Overview and Performance Scrutiny Forum , item 67. PDF 466 KB Minutes: View the minutes text for item 67.
68.	To receive and adopt the Minutes of the meetings of the Community, Customer and Organisational Scrutiny Committee of *26 November, 2020 and 25 March, 2021 PDF 305 KB Additional documents: Minutes , 25/03/2021 Community, Customer and Organisational Scrutiny Committee , item 68. PDF 302 KB Minutes: View the minutes text for item 68.
69.	To receive and adopt the Minutes of the meetings of the Enterprise and Wellbeing Scrutiny Committee of *3 December, 2020, 4 February, 2021 and 1 April, 2021 PDF 276 KB Additional documents: Minutes , 04/02/2021 Enterprise and Wellbeing Scrutiny Committee , item 69. PDF 274 KB Minutes , 01/04/2021 Enterprise and Wellbeing Scrutiny Committee , item 69. PDF 274 KB Minutes: View the minutes text for item 69.
70.	Questions under Standing Order No. 19 To receive questions from Councillors in accordance with Standing Order No.19. Question submitted by Councillor Fordham: “To ask if the Council has plans regarding its links and relationship with the city of Yangquan in Shanxi Province, China, in the light of the planned review of the friendship cooperation between us (signed 2016 to last from 2017-2021). And to ask that this review takes into consideration the issue of human rights abuse and in particular the treatment of the Uyghur which includes forced re-education, forced labour, forced sterilisation and imprisonment. And to ask that this also includes consideration of the authoritarian repression of democracy in Hong Kong with the arrest of activists, secret trials, and crushing of political dissent?” Question submitted by Councillor Fordham: “To ask if representations could be made to the Polish Embassy regretting the creation of LGBT-free zones and towns in Poland and to make clear our support for inclusion and diversity of all communities, and to share with the Chesterfield Polish Society?” Question submitted by Councillor Fordham: “In the light of growing concerns over hate crime, over the Police handling of women, and over the total silence of the Derbyshire Police and Crime Commissioner on LGBT+ issues during LGBT+ History Month, will the Borough Council book a stall at Chesterfield Pride 2021?” Question submitted by Councillor Fordham: “Given the Climate Change commitment to planting trees and the scale of opportunity with both Poolsbrook and Holmebrook within the Borough, and noting that in excess of 3,000 trees are being planted this year - how many of those are or will be fruit trees?” Minutes: View the minutes text for item 70.