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Agenda

 

1. Attendance and Apologies for Absence

2. Mayor's Announcements

3. Declarations of Interest

All Members are reminded that they must disclose any interests they know they have in items of business on the meeting’s agenda and that they must do so at this point on the agenda or as soon as they become aware of the interest. If the interest is a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest they are also obliged to notify the Monitoring Officer within 28 days of the meeting.

4. Minutes

Meeting on 27 May 2020

5. Public Questions

Any member of the public may ask a question or make a statement on matters for which the Council is responsible at this point in the meeting, provided that they have been invited to participate in this meeting and have submitted their question or statement in writing and in advance. Each person has two minutes and a maximum of 30 minutes is allotted to public questions/statements. The Mayor may disallow a question if it is offensive, substantially the same as another question or requires disclosure of exempt or confidential information. If the question cannot be answered at the meeting a written response will be provided after the meeting.

Any member of the public who wishes to submit a question or statement to this meeting should email it to committees@chelmsford.gov.uk 24 hours before the start time of the meeting. All valid questions and statements will be published with the agenda on the website at least six hours before the start time and will be responded to at the meeting.

Those who have submitted a valid question or statement will be entitled to put it in person at the meeting, provided they have indicated that they wish to do so and have submitted an email address to which an invitation to join the meeting and participate in it can be sent.

Public questions

6. Cabinet Question Time

The Leader and Members of the Cabinet to answer questions submitted by Members of the Council in accordance with Council Rules 10.18 to 10.22.

Cabinet questions

7. Reports from the Cabinet Member for Fairer Chelmsford

  • 7.1 Capital Programme Update and Provisional Outturn 2019/20
  • 7.2 Treasury Management Outturn 2019/20
  • 7.3 Medium Term Financial Strategy

8. Annual Report of the Audit and Risk Committee

9. Annual Report of the Governance Committee

10. Annual Report of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee

11. Membership of the Planning Committee

Green Sheet of Additions

12. Notice of Motion: Standing Against Racism and Discrimination

In accordance with notice duly given, Councillor L Ashley will move, and Councillor S Robinson second:

“Chelmsford City Council

(a) Acknowledges the recent protests concerning Black Lives Matter and that these do not represent isolated incidents.

(b) Notes that race hate recorded crime nationally has more than doubled in six years from 35,845 to 78,991 in 2018-19. In Essex in 2018-19 a total of 2,846 hate crime offences were reported.

(c) Believes that this indicates that discrimination exists across society including in Chelmsford, and the City Council should take action to reduce and hopefully eliminate it.

(d) Welcomes the fact that Chelmsford is becoming a more diverse city and values the contribution that BAME residents bring to our city but believes that there is much more to do to become a fully inclusive city for all our residents in order that they feel safe and thrive.

(e) Acknowledges the need to challenge ourselves as individuals and in our own organisation about the dangers of unconscious bias.

(f) Notes the Government’s finding that the impact of COVID-19 has a disproportionate impact on Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people.

(g) Notes that the council has already begun a process to find out what our BAME residents experience on a day to day basis in the city.

(h) Welcomes the initiative of the Mayor and council leadership to establish a “Meeting of Many Minds” group, inviting key members of the BAME community to discuss openly incidents and experiences of racial discrimination from first-hand experiences.

(i) Notes that this Council previously adopted a motion to stand against anti-semitism.

Chelmsford City Council resolves to

(a) Adopt the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on British Muslims definition of Islamophobia, namely "Islamophobia is rooted in racism and is a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness.”

(b) Continue focus groups and meetings, so that we can find out more about how we support our diverse communities and what they expect from us, as Councillors and the City Council as a whole.

(c) Improve knowledge and understanding by using our museums, theatres, festivals and outside events to showcase the diversity of our city.

(d) Monitor the figures relating to hate crimes and action taken via the Community Safety Partnership.

(e) Support the work of the Working Group on Connectivity and Local Democracy to tackle discrimination, encourage participation and open up community discussion. It seems an appropriate forum for challenging our approach to all areas of potential discrimination, beginning with the role that we can play in tackling racism.

(f) Report back regularly to all councillors.”

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