Meeting Details Meeting Summary Committee: Finance and Democracy Committee Date/Time: 25 Sep 2017 - 18:30 to 19:55 Status: Occurred Venue: Reception Room Webcast: Add to my Calendar DocumentsAttendanceOthers in AttendanceDeclarations of Interests Documents AGENDA Finance & Democracy 25 September 2017 (3705Kb) MINUTES of Finance and Democracy Committee held on 25 September 2017 (202Kb) Item 4 - Timetable for Developing Budget Proposals 2018-19 (200Kb) Item 5 - Business Rates – New Reliefs arising from the 2017 Budget Announcements (194Kb) Item 5 - Appendix 1 - Further Discretionary Reliefs 2017 (988Kb) Item 6 - Business Rates Retention and Business Rates Pooling 2018-19 (209Kb) Item 7 - Town Hall Wedding Venue Proposal (189Kb) Item 8 - The Transformation Strategy (192Kb) Item 8 - Appendix 1 - The Transformation Strategy (589Kb) Item 9 - Promenade Gardens Water Play Facility Project (6828Kb) Item 10 - Development of Play Area, Bridges Playing Field, Warton (209Kb) Item 11- Release of S106 Monies - Fleetwood Road Playing Fields, Wesham (187Kb) Item 12 - Blackpool Airport Enterprise Zone Progress Report (194Kb) Item 13 - General Fund Revenue Monitoring Report (163Kb) Item 13 - Information Note - General Fund Revenue Monitoring Report as at 31st July 2017 (218Kb) Item 14 - Capital Programme Monitoring Report (163Kb) Item 14 - Information Note - Capital Programme Monitoring Report as at 31st July 2017 (320Kb) Item 15 - Outside Bodies (166Kb) Item 15 - Outside Bodies Reports and Summary (80Kb) Attendance Attended - Committee Members Name Karen Buckley - Leader of Council Neil Harvey Angela Jacques Kiran Mulholland Linda Nulty Richard Redcliffe - Deputy Leader Vince Settle Elaine Silverwood Roger Small Attended - Other Members Name No other member attendance information has been recorded for the meeting. Apologies NameReason for Sending ApologySubstituted By David Donaldson Susan Fazackerley MBE Absent NameReason for AbsenceSubstituted By Tony Ford JP Liz Oades Declarations of Interests Member NameItem Ref.DetailsNature of DeclarationAction Kiran MulhollandItem 7, Town Hall Weeding Venue ProposalCouncillor Mulholland declared a personal interest as he was a wedding photographer. PersonalHis interest was recorded in the minutes. Elaine SilverwoodItem 5 - Business Rates, New ReliefsAs a business owner in the borough, Councillor Silverwood declared a pecuniary and prejudicial interest. PecuniaryShe left the meeting for the duration of the item. Others in Attendance Also in attendance at the above meeting were: Paul Walker, Director of Development Services; Paul O'Donoghue, Chief Financial Officer; Alex Scrivens, Performance and Improvement Manager; Katharine McDonnell, Senior Democratic Services Officer. Kate Foulks-Williams, Senior Team Manager, Shared Service. Nick Gerrard, Rob Green and Stephen Smith, Blackpool Airport Enterprise Zone Officers. One member of the public was also present.