Agenda

In accordance with Council Procedure Rule No. 11, the Chief Executive will report the receipt of any petitions. 

The Chairs of Committees to answer any questions from the public of which notice has been given no later than midday three clear working days before the day of the meeting in accordance with Council Procedure Rule 12.

The Chairman of the Council, Chairs of Committees and Sub-Committees and Portfolio Holders to answer any questions on any matters in relation to which the Council has powers or duties or which affect the District of which due notice has been given in accordance with Council Procedure Rule 13.

Chair of Overview and Scrutiny Committee

Co-Chair of Joint Audit and Standards Committee.

At its meeting on 30 November 2020, the Joint Audit and Standards Committee considered Paper JAC/20/3 – Half Year Report on Treasury Management 2020/21.  The recommendations set out in the report were accepted.

It was RECOMMENDED TO BOTH COUNCILS:

1)     That the Treasury Management activity for the first six months of 2020/21 as set out in the report and Appendices be noted.

2)      That it be noted that both Councils’ Treasury Management activity for the first six months of 2020/21 was in accordance with the approved Treasury Management Strategy, and that the Council has complied with all the Treasury Management Indicators for this period.

Note – It is a requirement of the Code of Practice on Treasury Management that full Council notes the Half-Year position.

Chair of Overview and Scrutiny Committee

At its meeting on 23 November 2020, the Joint Overview and Scrutiny Committee considered Paper JOS/20/3 – Review of Outside Bodies.

The Committee’s Recommendations to Council are attached as Paper MC/20/19.

Chief Executive

Cabinet Member for Assets and Investments

Leader of the Council

To consider the Motion on Notice received from Councillor Morley:

This Council expresses alarm at the rise in antisemitism across the UK in recent years. The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) guidelines on antisemitism, negotiated and agreed at an international level, were adopted by the UK Government in 2016. These guidelines define antisemitism thus:

“Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.”

Contemporary examples of antisemitism in public life, the media, schools, the workplace, and in the religious sphere could, taking into account the overall context, include, but are not limited to:

·        Calling for, aiding, or justifying the killing or harming of Jews in the name of a radical ideology or an extremist view of religion.

·        Making mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, or stereotypical allegations about Jews as such or the power of Jews as collective — such as, especially but not exclusively, the myth about a world Jewish conspiracy or of Jews controlling the media, economy, government or other societal institutions.

·        Accusing Jews as a people of being responsible for real or imagined wrongdoing committed by a single Jewish person or group, or even for acts committed by non-Jews.

·        Denying the fact, scope, mechanisms (e.g. gas chambers) or intentionality of the genocide of the Jewish people at the hands of National Socialist Germany and its supporters and accomplices during World War II (the Holocaust).

·        Accusing the Jews as a people, or Israel as a state, of inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust.

·        Accusing Jewish citizens of being more loyal to Israel, or to the alleged priorities of Jews worldwide, than to the interests of their own nations.

·        Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavour.

·        Applying double standards by requiring of it a behaviour not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation.

·        Using the symbols and images associated with classic antisemitism (e.g. claims of Jews killing Jesus or blood libel) to characterize Israel or Israelis.

·        Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.

·        Holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel.

This Council hereby adopts the above definition of antisemitism as set out by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, and adopted by the UK Government, and pledges to combat this anti-Jewish racism.

Proposer – Cllr Suzie Morley

Seconder – Cllr Lavinia Hadingham