To: ALL MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL

You are hereby summoned to attend a MEETING of the COUNCIL to be held on WEDNESDAY, 17 JANUARY 2007 in the COUNCIL CHAMBER, COUNTY HALL, NEWPORT, ISLE OF WIGHT commencing at 6.00 pm for the transaction of the business set out in the agenda below.

Before the commencement of the formal business the Chairman will present the Judges Award for Outstanding Achievement from the IW Disability and Advice Line (DIAL) to Rosie Barnard, in recognition of the Council’s work with all the other statutory, voluntary and not for profit organisations to develop an Island Disability Equality Scheme.

AGENDA

PRAYERS

1. To approve as a correct record and to sign the Minutes of the meeting of the Council held on 15 November 2006 .

2. To receive any declarations of interest.

3. To deal with any questions from members of the public.

Questions may be asked without notice but to guarantee a full reply at the meeting, the question must be delivered in writing, or by electronic mail, to Committee Services no later than 4.00 pm on Monday, 15 January 2007.

4. Chairman’s report, official announcements, communications and correspondence for the Council.

5. MOTIONS SUBMITTED UNDER PROCEDURE RULE 11

(a) By Cllr David Williams

THAT the Isle of Wight Council:

(i) welcomes the introduction of the Safer Neighbourhoods initiative.

(ii) recognises that the Council, local members, parish and town councils and the police must work together to make Safer Neighbourhoods both a success and a reality, to improve the quality of life enjoyed by Island residents.

(iii) is particularly pleased to see the support given by parish and town councils to their local beat officers and encourages the continued development of these working relations.

(iv) however expresses disappointment at the recent announcement by the Government that they will be significantly reducing the funding for Police Community Support Officers, when these have been demonstrated to be a key element of the Safer Neighbourhoods initiative.

(v) urges the Cabinet Member for Safer Communities and the Council’s representative on the Police Authority to make representations to the Government to reverse their decision.

(vi) despite the above, the Council is still committed to providing additional funding of £169,000 towards Police Community Support Officers on the Island.

(b) By Cllr Geoff Lumley

Council notes that the Protocol on Publicity and the Media contained within its own Constitution states at para. 28;

“Wight Insight is a non-political publication, and will not ordinarily feature individual councillors or ventures of officers.”

Council notes that the Constitution has not been changed to take into account the name change of Wight Insight to ‘One Island’. However, Council additionally notes that the second edition of ‘One Island’, published in December 2006, featured numerous individual councillors, all but one from the Conservative group.

This Council resolves to strictly maintain the Constitutional requirement of its own publications being non-political and not ordinarily featuring individual councillors nor ventures of officers.

We resolve this in the strong belief that to relax that requirement would be tantamount to allowing political promotion at the expense of the Council Tax payers.

6. GAMBLING ACT 2005 STATEMENT OF LICENSING POLICY

To consider a report regarding the new legislation and the Council’s draft Statement of Licensing Policy. (Paper B)

7. CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS – FULL COUNCIL PROCEDURES

To consider any amendments required to the Council’s Constitution. (Paper C)

8. APPOINTMENT OF COMMISSIONER TO THE POLICY COMMISSION FOR ECONOMY, TOURISM, REGENERATION AND TRANSPORT

To receive and consider nominations for the appointment of the Commissioner for the Policy Commission for Economy, Tourism, Regeneration and Transport.

9. DATE FOR ANNUAL COUNCIL

To agree the date of Annual Council for 2007.

10. CABINET:

Cabinet Members and the Chairman of Scrutiny to present a written report, and answer written and oral questions on budget or policy:

(i) The Leader (Cllr Andy Sutton)

(ii) Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Education, Skills and Learning (Cllr Patrick Joyce)

(iii) Cabinet Member for Assets, Planning and Housing (Cllr George Brown)

(iv) Cabinet Member for Safer Communities and Fire and Rescue Modernisation (Cllr Barry Abraham)

(v) Cabinet Member for Environment, Planning and Transport (Cllr Ian Ward)

(vi) Cabinet Member for The Economy, The Customer, Communications, Leisure and Tourism (Cllr Tim Hunter-Henderson)

(vii) Cabinet Member for Health, Housing and Community Wellbeing (Cllr Dawn Cousins)

(viii) Chairman of Scrutiny (Cllr Geoff Lumley)

(ix) Cabinet Member for Resources and Town/Parish Council Empowerment (Cllr Jilly Wood)

To guarantee a full reply Members must submit a question in writing or by electronic mail to Committee Services no later than 5.00 pm on 16 January 2007. A further period of 10 Minutes will be allowed for oral questions to each Cabinet Member.

JOHN LAWSON

Deputy Chief Executive