Agenda item

The following items of urgent business were considered:-

Lord Mayor’s Show

The Committee considered the following matters in connection with the Lord Mayor’s Show:-

Armed Forces and the City Corporation Covenant

The Remembrancer sought support to the Lord Mayor to sign a covenant between the Armed Forces and the City Corporation, as part of the Lord Mayor’s Show, which acknowledged the Armed Forces and the sacrifices made by the various military groups.

RESOLVED – that approval be given to the Lord Mayor’s signing of a covenant, as part of the Lord Mayor’s Show, between the Armed Forces and the City Corporation which acknowledged the Armed Forces.

Fireworks Display

A report of the Director of Public Relations was laid round the table concerning the additional cost associated with traffic and public safety management activities for the fireworks display.

RESOLVED – that approval be given to the following:-

1.   an increase not exceeding £62,000 to the cost of providing the fireworks display to include additional traffic management, public safety and crowd and related events management issues. The total cost not to exceed £155,000 to be met from the Committee’s City’s Cash contingency for 2013/14; and

2.   the appointment of AD Health and Safety as a specialist event company to oversee the management of the fireworks event.

London First Aviation Campaign

The Committee considered a report of the Director of Public Relations proposing support for London First’s aviation campaign entitled Let Britain Fly.

RESOLVED – That approval be given to one-off financial support of £25,000 to London First’s aviation campaign, Let Britain Fly, to be met from the Policy Initiatives Fundfor 2013/14 categorised under the Research section of the Fund and charged to City’s Cash.

Members’ Informal Meeting

The Chairman referred to the regular themed discussion meetings he hosted to assist Members in becoming more familiar with the City Corporation’s work. He advised that whilst the meetings were well received they reduced the number of topics which could be considered at the Members’ Informal meetings without causing duplication. He referred to the next Members’ Informal meeting which was scheduled to take place in November and questioned the merits of it proceeding with insufficient business.

A Member expressed concern about cancelling the meeting without proper consultation and, in general, the Committee was of the view that the meeting should proceed as it provided an open forum for discussion and that Members should be asked if there were any specific items that they wished to raise.

RESOLVED – That the Members’ Informal meeting scheduled for November should proceed as planned.