Agenda and minutes

Venue: Rooms 2 & 3, Burnley Town Hall

Contact: Carol Eddleston  Democracy Officer

Items
No. Item

35.

Apologies

To receive any apologies for absence.

Minutes:

Apologies for absence were received from Councillors Hosker, Ishtiaq, G Lishman and Sollis.

36.

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To approve as a correct record the minutes of the previous meeting, held on 25th July 2022.

Minutes:

The minutes of the meeting held on 25th July 2022 were approved as a correct record and signed by the Chair.

37.

Additional Items of Business

To determine whether there are any additional items of business which, by reason of special circumstances, the Chair decides should be considered at the meeting as a matter of urgency.

 

Minutes:

The Chairman sought clarification on the process for making representations as to why any meeting or part of a meeting proposed to be held in private should be open to the public. He was also keen to know how long items were deemed to be private. He recalled that on occasions there had been public and private versions of a report.

 

Lukman Patel, Monitoring Officer, confirmed that he had no objections to public and private versions of a report but, on this occasion, the public and private elements were very much intertwined and not easily separated out.

 

The Notice of Key Decisions and Private Meetings informed well in advance of items coming forward to the Executive and whether the items included on it were intended to be taken in public or in private. If any member wanted to know more about why it was intended to take an item in private, or to make representations as to why they thought it should be taken in public, they could contact them or the Head of Legal and Democratic Services.

 

When an item was no longer deemed to be private was quite complex and depended on a number of factors. Consequently there was no one size fits all answer.

 

The Notice of Key Decisions and Private Meetings was included on the agenda for ordinary Scrutiny Committee meetings and members could perhaps discuss it in greater depth at future meetings.

 

 

38.

Declarations of Interest

To receive any declarations of interest from Members relating to any item on the agenda, in accordance with the provisions of the Code of Conduct and/or indicate if S106 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 applies to them.

Minutes:

There were no declarations of interest in any of the items on the agenda.

39.

Exclusion of the Public

To consider the exclusion of the public from the meeting before discussion takes place on the following item of business, on the grounds that in view of the nature of the item for consideration, there would be disclosure to them of exempt information within the meaning of Paragraph 3 of Schedule 12a of the Local Government Act 1972.

 

 

 

Minutes:

Members determined to exclude the public from the meeting before discussion took place on the following item of business on the grounds that in view of the nature of the business to be transacted if the public were present there would be a disclosure to them of exempt information within the meaning of part 3 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972.

40.

Youth Investment Fund Application

To consider a report on a Youth Investment Fund Application.

Minutes:

Lukman Patel presented a report which was due to be presented to the Executive on 17th August 2022 and which asked the Executive to consider supporting an application by OnSide to the Youth Investment Fund (YIF) for an Open Access Youth Zone in Burnley.

 

Members discussed the report in detail and asked a number of questions and made a number of observations to which officers responded. The discussion focused on:

 

·       Relatively limited opportunity to consult directly with schools due to the timescales involved and imminent school holidays at the time;

·       Wide and considerable partner support for the YIF application;

·       Lancashire County Council’s statutory duties in relation to provision of targeted youth services rather than open access;

·       State of the art, non-traditional young person-led model of OnSide Youth Zones;

·       Importance of ease of access to Youth Zones, including via public transport.

 

Councillor Anwar, Leader of the Council, welcomed the comprehensive discussion and assured members that members of the Executive would be informed of the committee’s questions and observations ahead of their meeting later in the week.

 

IT WAS UNANIMOUSLY AGREED THAT:

1)    The report to the Executive and the annexes be noted, and

2)    The Scrutiny Committee fully support and endorse the recommendations contained in the report.