Meeting documents

To: All Members of the Council Executive

Dear Member,

Council Executive: Wednesday 1st October 2003

You are invited to attend a meeting of the Council Executive to be held on Wednesday 1st October 2003 at 10:00 am in the Council Chamber, Guildhall, High Street, Bath.

The agenda is set out overleaf.

Yours sincerely

Jo Morrison

for Chief Executive

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The decisions taken at this meeting of the Council Executive are subject to the Council's call-in procedures. Within 5 clear working days of publication of decisions, at least 10 Councillors may signify in writing to the Chief Executive their wish for a decision to be called-in for review. If a decision is not called-in, it will be implemented after the expiry of the 5 clear working day period.

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NOTES:

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Arrangements are in place for the safe evacuation of disabled people.

Council Executive meetings will be supported by the Director's Group.

A recorded vote will be taken on each item.

The Chair(person) will draw attention to the emergency evacuation procedure as set out under Note 5.

To receive any declarations from Members/Officers of personal or prejudicial interests in respect of matters for consideration at this meeting.

At the time of publication, notice had been received of..../no items had been submitted.

At the time of publication, notice had been received of..../no items had been submitted.

To be confirmed as a correct record and signed by the Chair.

This is a standard agenda item, to cover any reports originally placed on the Weekly list for single Member decision making, which have subsequently been the subject of an Executive Member requisition to the full Council Executive, under the Council's procedural rules.

This report deals with the property, finance, health & safety and other aspects of the Executive's decision of 16^th January 2003 to consider a total ban on the granting of agreements to site mobile phone masts on Council owned and controlled property.

Following consideration of this item at the Resources and Customer Service Overview and Scrutiny Panel, the next stage was to prepare a project and resource plan to deliver the feasibility study.

This report presents a three phase approach leading to an implementation plan using Council and Private Sector Investment (through S106 agreements) to achieve, over a period of time, a standard and provision of service which matches the quality of other Council Services and Customer expectations.

This report provides Executive Members with an update on progress made on producing a Community Strategy for Bath and North East Somerset.

The Council's Planning & Review Framework requires all the targets in the Performance plan to be reported every 4 months. Twice a year these figures are brought together in a Council Performance Report. This is the first of these reports for 2003-2004. The second is due in January 2004.

The following agenda motions were considered at the Council meeting on 18^th September and referred to the Council Executive. The Council Executive will need to decide what action they wish to be taken for these items.

LEIPZIG DECLARATION ON EUROPEAN COHESION POLICY

The following motion was moved by Councillor David Bellotti and seconded by Councillor Marian McNeir:-

"That this Council endorses the Final Declaration of the Leipzig Conference of 5-6 May 2003, adopted by 500 participants including Regional Presidents, Mayors and other democratic representatives of local and regional authorities from across the enlarged European Union and recommends the Council Executive to adopt it on behalf of Bath and North East Somerset Council."

The words underlined were added on the advice of the Solicitor to the Council to replace the words " instructs the Leader of Bath and North East Somerset Council to sign the Declaration on behalf of the Council.")

(Notes: All Members of the Council have received a copy of the Declaration together with a briefing note prepared by the Head of Sustainability and Economic Development.

THE UNITED NATIONS GLOBAL COMPACT ON CORPORATE CITIZENSHIP IN THE WORLD ECONOMY

The following motion was moved by Councillor Peter Metcalfe and seconded by Councillor Sharon Ball:-

"That this Council endorses the Global Compact as written by the United Nations and wishes to join with the Local Business community through the Bath and North East Somerset Initiative in signing up to the Global Compact and thus becoming the first area of the UK to join this Global Initiative. It therefore commends membership of it to the Council Executive."

(The words underlined were added on the advice of the Solicitor to the Council to replace the words "instructs the Leader of the Council to jointly sign the declaration letter with the Chair of the Bath and North East Somerset Initiative.")

(Notes: All Members of the Council have received a copy of the Global Compact together with a briefing note prepared by the Head of Sustainability and Economic Development.)