Glasgow City Council Agenda - 22 February 2018, 13:00 
A meeting to be held at City Chambers, Glasgow at 13:00 on 22 February 2018.
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| 1 | Minutes of Council meeting of 14th December 2017 (Print 5, pages 461 to 469). View Papers |
| 2 | Print 5 - Committees' minutes - Submitted for information and approval as a correct record only (page 470 onwards). View Papers |
| 3 | 2018/19 Revenue Budget - Report by Acting Executive Director of Financial Services. View Papers |
| 4 | Changes to committees etc. View Papers |
| 5 | Representation on outside bodies - Scotcash - Appoint Ms Elaine Galletly, Head of Legal and Administration in place of Mr Jim Gray. View Papers |
| 6 | Correspondence: View Papers |
| (a) | Letter from Cabinet Secretary for Communities, Social Security and Equality in response to Council motion on period poverty; and View Papers |
| (b) | Letter from Cabinet Secretary for Communities, Social Security and Equality in response to Council motion on welfare funding. View Papers |
| 7 | Question by Councillor Martin Rhodes - “To ask the City Convener for Education, Skills and Early Years if he would reconsider the Council’s rejection in July of a consultation request by parents on the admissions policy of Notre Dame High?" View Papers |
| 8 | Notices of motions:- |
| (a) | By Councillor Michelle Ferns:- "Council welcomes the passing of the Child Poverty (Scotland) Act and positive action being taken to address child poverty and tackle the deep seated generational inequalities in our society, and supports this call to urgent action. Council applauds the setting of statutory targets which will be set out in regular delivery plans and require annual local child poverty plans, in contrast to the UK Government, which has abolished its child poverty unit and child poverty targets. Council supports the establishment of a Poverty and Inequality Commission, and recognises that meeting these targets will require cross-government action. Council believes that Glasgow is well placed to do so and commits to working with the Scottish Government, other local authorities, the third sector and people with experience of living in poverty to achieve these targets and to reduce and utimately eradicate child poverty. Council notes that thousands of children in Glasgow are suffering from hunger and malnutrition during school holidays; further notes the impact that this has on children's wellbeing and educational attainment; believes that this is part of wider household food insecurity and is one of the most devastating impacts of the UK Government's policy of continued austerity. Council calls on Council to form a Holiday Hunger Task Force as a matter of urgency and to provide financial support to (pilot) community-led and designed at local level projects which promote dignity and harness the social potential of food to connect people and develop sustainable solutions to food poverty in the worst affected wards to develop a solution for holiday hunger." View Papers |
| (b) | By Councillor Robert Mooney:- "Council condemns First Glasgow for introducing fares increases of up to 40% on their bus services. This will result in real hardship for many Glasgow residents and lead to further decline in the use of public transport in the City. Council calls on the Scottish Government to introduce legislation that will give local authorities the power to regulate bus services and put an end to the unacceptable fares increases being imposed by private bus companies." View Papers |
| (c) | By Councillor Robert Connelly:- "Council acknowledges the good work carried out by Council staff in servicing Priority 1 routes during the recent snowy and icy weather to keep Glasgow moving. However, Council recognises that a significant number of roads and pavements outwith Priority 1 received no gritting treatment and that some communities in Glasgow were inaccessible at points due to the weather causing great concern and problems for local residents. Council agrees that a report be brought to the relevant City Policy Committee by the Chief Executive or relevant Executive Director as soon as possible to consider how the Winter Maintenance Plan can be improved to ensure that no community is 'cut off' due to winter weather as far as is possible; how non priority roads and footpaths can be better served; how local communities can be consulted on the Winter Maintenance Plan to ensure it reflects routes which are vital to them; and what resources Council departments may require to improve the Winter Maintenance Plan in the future." View Papers |
| (d) | By Bailie Christy Mearns:- "Council: recognises the ongoing concerns amongst residents affected by the increase in short-term lets across Glasgow; notes that the recent recommendations of the Scottish Expert Advisory Panel on the Collaborative Economy does not go nearly far enough but welcomes the acknowledgement by the latest Scottish Enterprise report on tourism that short-term lets should not operate "at the expense of local residents' quality of life"; believes that such recommendations on their own would be insufficient to address the issues which have emerged from the substantial increase in short-term letting across the city, particularly the loss of homes to commercial lets; therefore recognises the need for greater and clearer enabling powers for local authorities to regulate the number, concentration and management of short-term lets; therefore agrees that the City Convener for Neighbourhoods, Housing & Public Realm should make representation to Scottish Ministers to press the case for Scottish Government legislation to provide these enabling powers and to ensure that short-term lets do not undermine peoples' basic right to affordable housing." View Papers |
| (e) | By Councillor Jennifer Layden:- "Council welcomes the Scottish Government's refreshed New Scots integration strategy and reiterates its commitment to refugees whether resettled, recognised or claimants. Council encourages the UK Government to develop a similar strategy and to strive to meet the integration needs of newcomers and the communities they live in. Council is concerned that UK policy continues to operate at best a two tier system, and that impact of this is not only discriminatory but to the detriment of inclusion and integration. Council is concerned that the UK Government has learned little from the Syrian Resettlement Programme and is damaging the goodwill of UK local authorities with its asylum dispersal proposals. Council notes that since 2012 no UK local authority has held a contract for asylum seeker accommodation and this is unlikely to change despite communities, campaign groups and Parliamentary concerns being expressed. New contracts must recognise the end to end cost of dispersal including the impact of destitution and commit to working more closely with local authorities to mitigate destitution and improve housing. Council will support active involvement and engagement in the UK Government's current Asylum Accommodation and Support Services Contract tendering process." View Papers |
| (f) | By Councillor Aileen McKenzie:- "Council notes that 2018 marks one hundred years since a major landmark in the history of our democracy - the first time women in the UK had the right to vote. Council further notes that the Suffrage movement saw women organise and campaign for their voice to be heard from the mid-1860s. In the 21st century, men and women share the same voting rights - but there are other barriers to parity which need to be overcome. Council recognises that just 32% of MPs and 33% of councillors are women. Council believes that, 100 years later, the journey to full equality is still far from complete. Council supports Women's 50:50 campaign for equal representation of women in Scotland and backs the campaigns call for fairer representation of women across Scotland's Public Life. Council further calls on the Scottish Government to commit to a Suffrage fund, and outreach work to champion and encourage women to stand for public office, which should ensure that we engage a diverse group of women from different races, cultures, religions, disabilities, socio economic statuses and sexualities." View Papers |
| (g) | By Bailie Ade Aibinu:- "This Council expresses alarm at the rise in antisemitism in recent years across the UK. This includes incidents when criticism of Israel has been expressed using antisemitic tropes. Criticism of Israel can be legitimate, but not if it employs the tropes and imagery of antisemitism. Council therefore welcomes the UK Government's announcement on December 11th 2016 that it will sign up to the internationally recognised International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) guidelines on antisemitism which define antisemitism thus: 'Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.' This Council calls on all parties to support combating antisemitism in all its manifestations. This Council hereby adopts the above definition of antisemitism as set out by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance and pledges to combat this pernicious form of racism." View Papers |
| (h) | By Bailie Norman MacLeod:- "Council re-emphasises its previously expressed concern at the detrimental effect on the welfare of many individuals and communities in Glasgow occasioned by the impact of Fixed Odds Betting Terminals (FOBTs) within Licensed Betting Offices (LBOs) in the City. In its view FOBTs no longer should be permitted within LBOs and discretion available to Local Licensing Boards should be expanded and enhanced in order that when considering applications for LBOs they again may be able to take account of the levels of existing provision. At a minimum Council is of the view that the maximum permitted stake on an FOBT should be reduced from its present level of £100 to £2 and sincerely hopes that such an adjustment will be the result of the recent consultation exercise on Gambling undertaken by the UK Government. In particular Council calls upon the UK Government to introduce an amendment to section 304 of the Gambling Act 2005 to allow compliance and enforcement activity to be conducted in Scotland by Local Authorities." View Papers |
| (i) | By Bailie Soryia Siddique:- "Council condemns President Trump's bigoted attitude towards women and ethnic minorities and condoning of Islamaphobia which results in hatred and division. As such, Council calls upon the UK Government to abandon plans to invite Donald Trump on a state visit, and the Scottish Government to send a message to President Trump that he is not welcome in Scotland. Council further believes that the huge security costs of the trip should be paid instead to charities that promote peace and understanding, such as the Jo Cox Foundation." View Papers |