Meeting Details

Meeting Summary
Sustainability and Transport Overview and Scrutiny Committee
24 Jul 2019 - 10:00 to 12:22
Occurred
  • Documents
  • Attendance
  • Visitors
  • Declarations of Interests
  • Webcast

Documents

Agenda

Public Agenda
1 Notice of Recording/Webcast
The Chairman to advise/meeting to note that this meeting will be webcast for live or subsequent broadcast via the Council's Internet site (www.civico.net/birmingham) and that members of the press/public may record and take photographs except where there are confidential or exempt items.

2 Declarations of Interests
Members are reminded that they must declare all relevant  pecuniary and non pecuniary interests arising from any business to be discussed at this meeting. If a disclosable pecuniary interest is declared a Member must not speak or take part in that agenda item. Any declarations will be recorded in the minutes of the meeting.
3 Apologies
To receive any apologies.

To note the resolution of the City Council appointing the Committee, Chairman and Members to serve on the Committee for the period ending with the Annual Meeting of the City Council in 2020 as follows:-

 

Councillors

Labour

 

Muhammed Afzal

Olly Armstrong

Liz Clements (Chairman)

Julie Johnson

Josh Jones

 

Conservative

Eddie Freeman

Timothy Huxtable

 

Liberal Democrat

Zaker Choudhry

5 Election of Deputy Chair
To confirm the election of the Deputy Chair to substitute for the Chair if absent.

To fulfill the functions of an Overview and Scrutiny Committee as they relate to any policies, services and activities relating to sustainability; air pollution; transport strategy and highways.

 

The Committee shall undertake the authority's statutory functions in relation to the scrutiny of flood risk management (Flood and Water Management Act 2010.  

To confirm the Action Notes of the meetings held on the 11 April 2019 and the 10 July 2019.

Councillor Waseem Zaffar, Cabinet member for Transport & Environment; Councillor Jon Hunt; Mel Jones, Head of Transport Planning and Network Strategy, BCC; Peter Parker, Head of Infrastructure Delivery, BCC; Malcolm Holmes, Executive Director, West Midlands Rail Executive Director of Rail, TfWM; Steve McAleavy, Director of Customer Experience, TfWM; Sandeep Shingadia, Director of Development and Delivery, TfWM and Anne Shaw, Director of Network Resilience, TfWM.    

To note the dates of future meetings on the following Wednesdays at 1000 hours in the Council House as follows:-

 

18 September, 2019     6

16 October, 2019          6

20 November, 2019      2

18 December, 2019      2

15 January, 2020          2

19 February, 2020         6

18 March, 2020              6

15 April, 2020                 6

 

The Committee is also requested to approve Wednesdays at 1000 ho urs as a suitable day and time each week  for additional meetings to consider 'requests for call ins' which may be lodged in respect of Executive decisions. 

12 Request(s) for Call In/Councillor Call for Action/Petitions Received (if any)
To consider any request for call in/councillor call for action/petitions (if received). 
13 Other Urgent Business
To consider any items of business by reason of special circumstances (to be specified) that in the opinion of the Chairman are matters of urgency.
14 Authority to Chairman and Officers
Chairman to move:-

'In an urgent situation between meetings, the Chairman jointly with the relevant Chief Officer has authority to act on behalf of the Committee'.

Attendance

Attended - Other Members
Name
No other member attendance information has been recorded for the meeting.
Apologies
NameReason for Sending Apology
Councillor Muhammad Afzal 
Absent
NameReason for Absence
Councillor Julie Johnson 
Councillor Josh Jones 

Declarations of Interests

Member NameItem Ref.DetailsNature of DeclarationAction
No declarations of interest have been entered for this meeting.

Visitors

Also in attendance at the above meeting were:


Cllr Jon Hunt

Cllr Waseem Zaffar, Cabinet Member Transport & Environment

Mel Jones, Head of Transport Planning & Network Strategy BCC

Alison Kennedy, Principal Transport Policy Officer BCC

Andy Middleton, Project Manager BCC

Peter Parker, Head of Infrastructure Delivery, BCC

Anne Shaw, Director of Network Resilience, Transport for West Midlands (TfWM)

Baseema Begum , Scrutiny Officer

Rose Kiely, O & S Manager

Webcast



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