Agenda item

Strategic Policy and Resources Committee

Minutes:

Moved by Councillor Campbell,

Seconded by Councillor Alderman Browne,

 

      That the minutes of the proceedings of the Strategic Policy and Resources Committee of 5th, 7th and 9th July, and 1st, 17th and 31st August, omitting matters in respect of which the Council has delegated its powers to the Committee, be approved and adopted.

 

Amendment

 

Motion of No Confidence in the Chairperson

 

Moved by Councillor Long

Seconded by Councillor McAllister and

 

      Resolved - That the decision of the Strategic Policy and Resources Committee of 17th August, under the heading “Motion of No Confidence in the Chairperson”, be rejected.

 

Amendment

 

Area-Based Festivals

 

Moved by Councillor Reynolds,

Seconded by Councillor Craig

 

      That the decision of the Strategic Policy and Resources Committee of 17th August, under the heading “Area-Based Festivals”, be amended to provide that the Council agrees to authorise the release of funding agreements to the Belfast South Community Resources and the Ulster Scots Community Network, with 90% of the funding to be paid up front and the remaining 10% to be paid following satisfactory completion of monitoring and evaluation returns

 

            On a recorded vote, twenty Members voted for the amendment and twenty-seven against, with four “no votes” and it was declared lost.

 

For 20

 

Aldermen Browne, Copeland, Haire, Kingston, McCoubrey, McGimpsey,

L. Patterson, Rodgers, Sandford and Spence; and Councillors

Corr Johnston, Craig, Dorrian, Dudgeon, Graham, Hussey, Kyle, Newton, Pankhurst and Reynolds.

 

Against 27

 

 The Lord Mayor (Councillor Hargey);

 the Deputy Lord Mayor (Councillor

 McDonough-Brown);

Councillors Attwood, Baker, Beattie, Campbell, Canavan, Clarke, Collins, Corr, Garrett, Groves, Heading, Long,  Lyons, Magee, Magennis, McAllister, McConville, McReynolds, Murphy, Nic Biorna, Nicholl, O’Donnell, O’Hara, O’Neill and Walsh.

 

No Vote 4

 

Alderman Convery and Councillors Boyle, Milne and Mullan.

 

Amendment

 

Giants Park – North Foreshore –

Commercial Leisure Led Mixed Use Development

 

Moved by Alderman Convery,

Seconded by Councillor Mullan,

 

      That the decision of the Strategic Policy and Resources Committee of 17th August, under the heading “Giants Park – North Foreshore – Commercial Leisure Led Mixed Use Development”, be referred back to the Committee for further consideration.

 

            On a vote by show of hands, four Members voted for the amendment and forty against and it was declared lost.

 

Adoption of Minutes

 

            The minutes of the proceedings of the Strategic Policy and Resources Committee of 5th, 7th and 9th July, and 1st, 17th and 31st August were thereupon approved and adopted.

 

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