Diary Date - Full Council - Tuesday 8 April

Full Council
Tuesday 8 April - 2pm
Council Chamber
And you can now watch online here.

The last full council meeting before the elections on the 22 May. Key items on the agenda:

• Question Time - including questions from the public
• Annual Report of the Council Business Management Committee
• Scrutiny Reports
• Tackling Childhood Obesity
• Working with Housing Associations
• Motions from members
• Labour motion proposing support for the City Centred Campaign 
• Tory motion proposing annual report from each Cabinet member to Full Council

Diary Date - Transport, Connectivity and Sustainability Overview and Scrutiny Committee

Transport, Connectivity and Sustainability Overview and Scrutiny Committee
Friday 18 October 2013 - 10am
Committee Rooms 3 and 4
And you can now watch online here.

Key items on the agenda:

• Examination of sustainability aspects of developing successful and inclusive communities.

This is a rather briefer agenda than usual as this meeting was originally planned to discuss other items that have had to be relocated elsewhere in the year's agenda. You can find out more about the service reviews in general here. 

October Diary

Tue 1 October - 7:30pm
Acocks Green Neighbourhood Forum - Acocks Green Baptist Church

Fri 4 October - 6:30pm
Surgery - Community Room, Archbishop Ilsley

Tue 8 October - 2pm
Full Council - Council Chamber, Council House (livestreamed - #bcclive)

Fri 11 October - 6:30pm
Surgery - Community Room, Archbishop Ilsley

Mon 14 October - 10am
Partnership, Contract Performance and Third Sector O&S - Committee Rooms 3 and 4, Council House
(livestreamed - #bcclive)

Tue 15 October
5:30pm - Housing Liaison Board - Common Room, St Mary's Close
7:30pm - Hazelwood Road Residents' Association - Hopkins Room, Acocks Green Methodist Church

Fri 18 October - 6:30pm
10am - Transport, Connectivity and Sustainability Overview and Scrutiny Committee - Committee Rooms 3 and 4, Council House

6:30pm - Surgery - Community Room, Archbishop Ilsley

Wed 23 October - 7pm
Acocks Green Ward Committee - Fox Hollies Forum

Thu 24 October - 12:15pm
Hall Green, Hodge Hill and Yardley Gardening Competition - Cascades, Stechford

Fri 25 October - 6:30pm
Surgery - Community Room, Archbishop Ilsley

This isn't by any means an exhaustive list of what I do - just the public meetings, although some are invitation only. 

This used to be in the sidebar, but I'm having problems posting it there. 

Diary Date - Acocks Green Ward Committee

Acocks Green Ward Committee
Wednesday 4 September 2013 - 7pm
Baptist Church, Yardley Road, Acocks Green

A couple of major issues.

• Discussion on future of council services
• Adults and communities
• Education Services
• Support Services Part One
• Environmental Health Update
• Acocks Green Baptist Church Redevelopment
• We will have representatives from the Stockfield Community Association and the Church to discuss the proposals.
• Planning Applications
• Community Chest funding

If you can make it along, this is a chance to discuss key issues in the ward - we want to hear your views. 

Diary Date - Transport, Connectivity and Sustainability Overview and Scrutiny Committee

Transport, Connectivity and Sustainability O&S Committee
Friday 26 July 2013 - 10am
Committee Room 1, Council House

 Items on the agenda will be

• DCLG Bid for Weekly Waste Collection Scheme (this is on the private agenda, as the information in the bid is commercially sensitive)
• Birmingham Energy Savers

This is a meeting open to the public - although they will unusually be excluded for the duration of the private agenda item (until approximately 11:15am).

Diary Date - Full Council AGM

Full Council
Tuesday 11 June 2013 - 4pm
Council Chamber
And you can now watch online here.

A foreshortened agenda and a late start today. Key items on the agenda will be:

• Report of The Lord Mayor 2012/13
• Election of The Lord Mayor 2013/14
• Dates of meetings for coming municipal year
• Annual constitutional review
• Appointment of cabinet members
• Appointment to council committees and other bodies

This is a meeting open to the public and we've certainly seen significant use of the online streaming - far more have watched online than have attended these meetings in a year.

We'll be welcoming Cllr Mike Leddy (Lab) as our new Lord Mayor for the coming year. He's a good guy and deserves the job - he will be an excellent first citizen of the city. 

Diary Date - Full Council - Tuesday 9 April 2013

Full Council
Tuesday 9 April 2013 - 2pm
Council Chamber, Council House
And you can now watch online here.

Key items on the agenda:

• Question Time
• Members of the Public to any Cabinet Member or District Committee Chair
• Any Councillor to Committee Chair or Lead Member
• Councillors other than Cabinet Members to Cabinet Member
• Councillors other than Cabinet Members to Leader or Deputy Leader
• Report of council business management committee
• Reports of Overview & Scrutiny
• Health of Birmingham's Third Sector
• Changing Gear: Transforming Urban Movement Through Cycling & Walking in Birmingham
• Motions for Debate
• Tory motion supporting the alignment of government spending with the priorities of the local business community
• LibDem motion about Pupil Premium

This is a meeting open to the public and we've certainly seen significant use of the online streaming - far more have watched online than have attended these meetings in a year. 

Diary Date - Full Council - 8 Jan 2013

Full Council
Tuesday 8 January 2013 - 2pm
Council Chamber - streamed live too.

Key agenda items:

• Question time
• Public questions to any cabinet member or district committee chair
• Questions from any councillor to a committee chair or lead member of a joint board
• Questions from councillors other than cabinet members to a cabinet member
• Questions from councillors other than cabinet members to the leader or deputy leader
• Localisation of Council Tax Support
• Overview and Scrutiny Reports
• Strengthening the Birmingham Family of Schools
• Devolution - Making it Real
• Motions for debate
• Labour motion on local government settlement
• Tory motion on biomass boiler emissions

Diary Date - Full Council

Full Council
Tuesday 4 December 2012 - 2pm
Council Chamber - streamed live too.

Key agenda items:

• Question time
• Public questions to any cabinet member or district committee chair
• Questions from any councillor to a committee chair or lead member of a joint board
• Questions from councillors other than cabinet members to a cabinet member
• Questions from councillors other than cabinet members to the leader or deputy leader
• Review of City Council's Constitution
• Gambling Act 2005 - Statement of Licensing Principles
• Reports of Overview & Scrutiny Committees
• Closing the skills gap
• Adults with autism and the criminal justice system
• Motions for debate

Diary Date - Full Council

Full Council
Tuesday 16 October 2012 2pm
Chamber, Council House and live streamed here (with a link to the full agenda).

Key items from the agenda:

• Question time from the public & councillors
• Review of City Council constitution 
• Statement of Licensing Committee
• New ways of working within Overview & Scrutiny
• Motions for debate - one on Council Tax Benefit and one on proposals for tenant consultation