Agenda and decisions

To receive any announcements from the Mayor and Chief Executive.

Group Business Managers to submit any apologies for absence.

To agree and authorise the Mayor to sign the Minutes of Council held on 12 February 2020.

The Councillors will be asked to say if there are any items of the Agenda in which they have a Disclosable Pecuniary Interests, which would prevent them from participating in any discussion of them items or participating in any vote upon the items, or any other interests.

To consider that the requirement for an Elected Member to attend a relevant number of qualifying Council meetings be relaxed until 7 May 2021.

Contact: Julie Muscroft, Head of Legal, Governance and Comissioning

That the absence of a Councillor from qualifying meetings of the authority, that would ordinarily lead to their disqualification as a Councillor, shall be authorised to 7 May 2021 in order that any Members who do not have the opportunity to attend a qualifying meeting prior to and during the pandemic are not at risk of inadvertent disqualification.

Council will discuss Councillors’ experiences in working with the Voluntary Sector, Partners and Communities in responding to the challenges of the Covid-19 Pandemic.

(Briefing Note – Kirklees Community Response to Covid -19 is attached)

1)    That this Council places on record its sincere gratitude and appreciation in recognition of the efforts of NHS and Social Care workers, together with all other key workers, both within the Council, partner organisations, volunteers and others providing essential service to the Communities that make up Kirklees throughout the duration of the Covid-19 pandemic and on an ongoing basis.

2)    That the leadership role which Elected Members play in working with the communities that they represent, to use their collective knowledge, insight and understanding into the impacts of Covid-19 upon communities be acknowledged. Councillors must therefore play an ongoing central leadership role in working with those communities to both tackle the challenges that lie ahead and help them to recover. In light of this, Council resolves to establish themed engagement opportunities that provide all 69 Councillors with the opportunity to contribute to the process of generating ideas and proposals to assist recovery.