To receive any apologies for absence.

Members are invited to disclose any disclosable pecuniary interest they have in any item on the agenda which comprises

1.         Details of any employment, office, trade, profession or vocation carried on for profit or gain.

2.         Details of any payment or provision of any other financial benefit (other than from the authority) made or provided within the relevant period in respect of any expenses incurred by you in carrying out duties as a member, or towards your election expenses.  (This includes any payment or financial benefit from a trade union within the meaning of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992.

3.         Details of any contract which is made between you (or a body in which you have a beneficial interest) and the authority

(a)       Under which goods or services are to be provided or works are to be executed; and

            (b)       Which has not been fully discharged.

4.         Details of any beneficial interest in land which is within the area of the authority. 

5.         Details of any licence (alone or jointly with others) to occupy land in the area of the authority for a month or longer. 

6.         Details of any tenancy where (to your knowledge)

            (a)       The landlord is the authority; and

            (b)       The tenant is a body in which you have a beneficial interest.

7          Details of any beneficial interest in securities of a body where

(a)       That body (to your knowledge) has a place of business or land in the    area of the authority; and

(b)       Either –

(i)      The total nominal value of the securities exceeds £25,000 or one hundredth of the total issued share capital of that body; or

(ii)     If that share capital of that body is of more than one class, the total nominal value of the shares of any one class in which the relevant person has a beneficial interest exceeds one hundredth of the total issued share capital of that class.

Note

A “disclosable pecuniary interest” is an interest of a councillor or their partner (which means spouse or civil partner, a person with whom they are living as husband or wife, or a person with whom they are living as if they are civil partners).

To consider whether the press and public should be excluded from the meeting during consideration of any items of business on the Agenda.

To confirm as a correct record the Minutes of the meeting of the Local Committee held on 6 June 2012 (copy enclosed)

There are no questions, petitions or deputations relating to the business of the Committee on this occasion.

[Electoral Divisions: All]

To consider a report by the Corporate Director – Resources (copy enclosed)

This report presents the actual expenditure and commitments recorded against the Local Committee’s Communities Budget as at 31^st March 2012.

[Electoral Divisions: All]

To consider a report by the Corporate Director – Resources (copy enclosed)

This report presents the actual expenditure and commitments recorded against the Local Committee’s Highways Revenue and Capital Budgets as at 31^st March 2012.

[Electoral Divisions: All]

To consider a report by the Corporate Director – Resources (copy enclosed)

This report presents the actual expenditure and commitments recorded against the Local Committee’s Communities Budget as at 30^th June 2013.

[Electoral Divisions: All]

To consider a report by the Corporate Director – Resources (copy enclosed)

This report presents the actual expenditure and commitments recorded against the Local Committee’s Highways Budget as at 30^th June 2013.

[Electoral Divisions: All]

To consider a report from the Corporate Director – Organisational Development (copy enclosed)

This report provides Members with an update on highways maintenance issues using the Better Highways approach. It contains the normal Measures as well as a profile of the work done.

[Electoral Divisions: Penrith West]

To consider a report from the Corporate Director – Organisational Development (copy enclosed)

This report advises members following the advertisement of a Traffic Regulation Order to impose a 7.5T maximum gross vehicle weight prohibition (except for access) on Mile Lane and Norfolk Road, Penrith. This draft order came before Local Committee in January 2012 the decision regarding Mile Lane was deferred until further information had been received. This report provides members with further information following data collection carried out at the site

[Electoral Divisions: Penrith East]

To consider a report from the Corporate Director – Organisational Development (copy enclosed)

This report provides Members with an update on highways maintenance issues using the Better Highways approach. It contains the normal Measures as well as a profile of the work done.

[Electoral Division: Penrith West]

To consider a report by the Chief Executive (copy enclosed)

This report presents a number of projects to be funded from the Local Member Schemes budgets. The report includes Members’ proposals that have been sufficiently investigated and developed, to enable Local Committee to consider spending decisions.

[Electoral Divisions: All]

To consider a report by the Chief Executive (copy enclosed)

This report details requests for grant funding from the 0-19 budget from a number of organisations

[Electoral Divisions: All]

To consider a report from the Chief Executive (copy enclosed)

This report presents the Area Plan for Eden and describes the development process involved. Local Committee is asked to endorse the 2012/14 Area Plan. The Area Plans are designed to be ‘living’ documents and Local Committee are asked to provide their views and comments to inform their development in future years.

To consider a report from the Corporate Director – Children’s Services (copy enclosed)

[Electoral Division: All]

To consider a report by the Corporate Director – Organisational Development (copy enclosed)

This report provides a progress report on the 2012/13 programme of work showing for each scheme, grouped by electoral division, start and end dates where known, month or quarter where dates have not been finalised, the work type and comments on the scheme as appropriate.

[Electoral Divisions: Kirkby Stephen]

To consider a report by the Chief Executive (copy enclosed)

This report is to inform the Local Committee of the progress of Kirkby Stephen Community and Council Centre over the six months from October 2011 to March 2012

[Electoral Divisions: All]

To consider a report by the Chief Executive (copy enclosed).

This report is to seek the views of members on arrangements when the current contract ends in March 2013.

To receive the minutes of the meeting of the Local Committee Chairs and Leadership meeting held on 30 May 2012 (copy enclosed)

[Electoral Division: All]

To consider a report by the Corporate Director – Organisational Development (copy enclosed)

This report provides members of the Local Committee with background and the current position with regards to the Connecting Cumbria project.  It also asks elected members to consider how they wish to be involved in the project as it progresses to roll-out phase.