Meeting Details

Lord Mayor to advise that this meeting will be webcast for live or subsequent broadcast via the Council's Public-I microsite (please click this link) and that members of the press/public may record and take photographs except where there are confidential or exempt items.

Members are reminded they must declare all relevant pecuniary and other registerable interests arising from any business to be discussed at this meeting.

If a disclosable pecuniary interest is declared a Member must not participate in any discussion or vote on the matter and must not remain in the room unless they have been granted a dispensation.

If other registerable interests are declared a Member may speak on the matter only if members of the public are allowed to speak at the meeting but otherwise must not take part in any discussion or vote on the matter and must not remain in the room unless they have been granted a dispensation.    

If it is a ‘sensitive interest’, Members do not have to disclose the nature of the interest, just that they have an interest.

Information on the Local Government Association's Model Councillor Code of Conduct is set out via http://bit.ly/3WtGQnN. This includes, at Appendix 1, an interests flowchart which provides a simple guide to declaring interests at meetings.

Councillor John Cotton to move the following recommendations:

"That City Council accepts the recommendation from Council Business Management Committee that:

1. In deep appreciation and recognition of their unique and distinguished contribution to the field of music and their service to the city, the City Council confers upon the members of Black Sabbath the Freedom of the City.

2. If the recommendation at 3.1 is agreed, that the Council should consult with the members of Black Sabbath to make arrangements for the awarding of the Freedom of the City".

Councillor John Cotton to move the following recommendations:

"That City Council accepts the recommendation from Council Business Management Committee that:

1. In deep appreciation and recognition of his unique and distinguished contribution to the field of literature and for his charitable and community work, the City Council posthumously confers upon Benjamin Zephaniah the City of Birmingham Medal.

2. If the recommendation at 3.1 is agreed, that the Council should consult with the family of Benjamin Zephaniah to make arrangements for the awarding of the medal."