Agendas 2015

Agenda of November Ordinary Meeting of Sligo County Council to be held on Monday, 2nd November, 2015 at 11am


Corporate Services,
County Hall,
Riverside,
Sligo.
 

071 911 11 11

27th October, 2015

TO:  THE CATHAOIRLEACH AND EACH MEMBER OF SLIGO COUNTY COUNCIL

The Ordinary Meeting of Sligo County Council will be held:

ON:  Monday, 2nd November, 2015

AT:  11.00 a.m.

IN:  Council Chamber, County Hall, Riverside, Sligo

You are requested to attend.

K. Colreavy
Administrative Officer

 

CLÁR

  1. To confirm the Minutes of the Special Meeting of Sligo County Council held on 28th September, 2015 (copy by e-mail and posted on extranet).
  2. To confirm the Minutes of the Ordinary Meeting of Sligo County Council held on 5th October, 2015 (copy by e-mail and posted on extranet).
  3. To confirm the Minutes of the Strategic Policy Committee 1 Meeting (Housing and Corporate) held on 24th March, 2015 (copy by e-mail and posted on extranet).
  4. To confirm the Minutes of the Strategic Policy Committee 1 Meeting (Housing and Corporate) held on 23rd June, 2015 (copy by e-mail and posted on extranet).
  5. To confirm the Minutes of the Meeting of the Municipal District of Ballymote-Tobercurry held on 13th July, 2015 (Copy by e-mail and posted on extranet).
  6. To confirm the minutes of the Corporate Policy Group Meeting held on 14th September, 2015 (Copy by e-mail and posted on extranet).
  7. To confirm the Minutes of the Procedures Committee Meeting, held on 20th October, 2015 (copy by e-mail and posted on extranet).
  8. To note the Monthly Management Report for September 2015 (copy to follow).
  9. Presentation by Sligo Greenway Co-Op.
  10. To consider the First Chief Executive’s Report on pre-draft submissions and observations in relation to the review of the Sligo County Development Plan, 2011-2017 and the preparation of a Draft County Development Plan, 2017-2023 (Report previously circulated and posted on extranet).
  11. Report on establishment of County Sligo Joint Policing Committee (Copy by e-mail and posted on extranet).
  12. Update on “Ireland 2016”.
  13. To review the operation of the Council’s Contributions to the Arts Grants Scheme (Report to follow).
  14. To consider amendments to the A.I.L.G. Constitution (Copy previously circulated and posted on extranet)
  15. To set date for meeting to consider the election of a representative to the Governing Body of the National University of Ireland, Galway for the five year period commencing 1st February 2016 (Copy of correspondence by e-mail and posted on extranet).
  16. To hear an update on the Business Improvement District (copy of report by e-mail and posted on extranet).
  17. To nominate a representative from the Ballymote-Tobercurry Municipal District to Sligo County Council’s Procedures Committee.
  18. To hear an update on the Valuation Office Rates National Revaluation Programme for Sligo.
  19. Proposed forthcoming presentations to the Council.

 

DEFERRED MOTIONS

  1. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor J. Lundy:
    “To ask Sligo County Council to remove the burden of commercial rates from early childhood care and educational facilities in Co. Sligo, as is the case with all other educational premises, both public and private throughout the country.”
  2. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor J. Queenan:
    “Call on the Minister for Communications to review the new Eircode postcode system as it is proposed that most of west Sligo will have a Mayo address”.
  3. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor S. MacManus:
    “That Sligo County Council Take in Charge Lar Easa Cove, Strandhill.”
  4. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor T. MacSharry:
    "That Sligo County Council CEO and executive provide a swipe card to any elected member who request one to gain access to offices at City Hall while acting in the course of their duties as a Council member".
  5. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor T. MacSharry:
    "That Sligo County Council calls on Central Government and the Minister for Finance to reintroduce the telephone allowance to the home care/ household benefit package and to increase the fuel allowance to €35 euro per week in the upcoming budget".
  6. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor D. Bree:
    “That the Council be provided with a breakdown of the contractors employed by the Council during the period 1st January 2014 to the 31st of December 2014, the work or works in lieu for which they were contracted and the amounts paid to those contractors”.
  7. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor T. MacSharry:
    "That Sligo County Council would adopt this resolution in support of Cork City Council in its actions against the proposed merger of Cork City and County Councils, and further supports its challenge to the Local Government Reform programme, which undermines the European Principle of Subsidiarity.

    We also direct the meeting administrator to inform the Minister for the Environment and Local Government and the Secretary General of the same Department of the passing of this motion by this Council”.

 

MOTIONS

  1. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor M. Clarke:
    “That this Council implements the following policy, that all presentations that are not being presented by in-house personnel be the subject of a previous monthly meeting motion, proposed and seconded”.
  2. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor J. Queenan :
    “Ask the Director of Services have all monies that were allocated by N.R.A. on N59 between Ballisodare and Mayo border in 2015 been spent and what funding is being applied for 2016”.
  3. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor J. Queenan:
    “Ask the Director of Services to request funding from Department of Transport under the low accident scheme to address traffic management on R297 Main Street, Enniscrone”.
  4. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor S. MacManus:
    “That this Council receive a report on progress made over the past year in providing recreational facilities at the Fairgreen, Sligo”.
  5. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor T. Healy:
    “That Sligo County Council call on the Government to direct the EPA to suspend work on the research study immediately and cancel the issuing of supplementary tender documents in relation to Fracking”.
  6. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor D. Mulvey:
    “To ask Sligo County Council to put in place drainage along the roadside leading to Cloonacool Community Park”.
  7. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor D. Mulvey:
    “To ask Sligo County Council to put traffic calming measures in place along R284 Geevagh Village”.
  8. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor S. MacManus:
    “To ask for a report on the current situation in relation to the Dorrins Strand housing scheme in Strandhill, this report to include the actions being undertaken by the Council Enforcement section and a possible time-line on when this estate might be taken in charge by Sligo County Council”.
  9. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor T. Healy:
    “I placed a motion last April regarding lorries parking in Ballisodare, I ask that Sligo County council now give a report on what measures they are to put in place to address the ongoing concern of the residents of Avena, Bushy Park and the general public”.
  10. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor M. Casserly:
    “That Sligo County Council provide an update on the following motion from April 2015:

    I propose that Sligo County Council development a 5 year Tourism Strategy to increase visitor numbers and create employment in the county and to promote outdoor, adventure, cultural and heritage tourism and to promote partnership and collaboration between community and voluntary groups, tourism agencies, the business sector and Sligo County Council”.
  11. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor M. Casserly:
    “That Sligo County Council write to the Minister for Communications Alex White to ensure that mobile phone service providers provide an adequate service in rural areas as is stated in their contracts with their customers. Should the service provided be inadequate then customers should be released from their contract according the requirements of the 'Sale of Goods and Supply of Services Act 1980’.”
  12. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor S. Kilgannon:
    “Sligo County Council welcomes the fact that the Irish League of Credit Unions have launched a Plan to lend enough money to build 35,000 Social Houses over the next six years.

    This Council calls on Minister Kelly and the Department of Environment to engage with the I. L. C. U. as they are prepared to invest a Significant amount of Money in Social Housing”.
  13. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor D. Bree:
    “That in view of the ever intensifying housing crisis in Sligo where in excess of a thousand applicants remain on the housing waiting list, this Council calls on the Minister and the Government to immediately commit to an investment programme in social housing in Sligo and further that we request the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to meet with a deputation from the Council as a matter of urgency in regards to the crisis.”
  14. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor D. Bree:
    “In light of the recent tragic events at the traveller halting site in Carrickmines, Dublin, this Council resolves to ask the Chief Executive if Sligo County Council has carried out a safety assessment of the traveller halting sites in Sligo and can he confirm that the sites are safe.”
  15. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor M. Gormley:
    “To ask the Director of Services what works Irish Rail are going to carry out to improve safety measures at junction of Ballymote Railway Station where hedge is a cause of major concern to motorists existing the railway station and the church car park”.
  16. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor E. Scanlon and Councillor J. Lundy:
    “To ask Sligo County Council to apply for funding to the OPW for drainage works to be carried out along the Creamery Road (R294), at Ballyara, Tubbercurry. There is a serious threat of flooding to houses and lands along this stretch of river”.
  17. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor T. Healy:
    “To call on Sligo County Council for the retention of school wardens for all schools that currently avail of this service.  Taking into account the ongoing increase in traffic flow”.
  18. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor J. Lundy:
    “To ask Sligo County Council to provide funding in the 2016 Budget for the refurbishment of McGuinness House in Aclare, and other works to include resurfacing of the street in the village, new footpaths and drainage works.  These works to be carried out in consultation with Aclare Development Council and Aclare Tidy Towns Committee”.
  19. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor S. Kilgannon:
    “Sligo County Council welcomes the promise of 2200 additional Teachers in Budget 2016 however this Council is extremely concerned that there will be no new allocation for Guidance Counsellors, Sligo County Council calls on the Minister for Education to reverse this decision”.
  20. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor S. Kilgannon:
    “Sligo County Council welcomes the decision by the Minister for Education and Skills to approve the Connacht Ulster Alliance to proceed to the next stage of building a Technological University for the West and North West of Ireland.”
  21. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor E. Scanlon:
    “To request that over hanging branches be cut from trees along the old N4 at Ballydrehid as they are causing damage to buses and high lorries”.
  22. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor D. Bree:
    “Further to correspondence received from the Residents Associations Committee dated 22nd of October 2015, this Council agrees to select an all party group of councillors to meet with representatives of the Residents Associations Committee in an effort to resolve current difficulties; and further recognising that residents associations may be liable to litigation in the event of a volunteer or member of the public having an accident in public open spaces which are maintained by residents associations, this Council requests the Chief Executive to prepare the necessary draft agreements to allow the Council to declare a residents association to be a “recognised association” under Section 128 of the Local Government, Act 2001; and further the Council requests the Chief Executive to appoint a Residents Associations Liaison Officer at the soonest possible time.”
  23. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor T. MacSharry:
    "That Sligo County Council write to the Minister for Transport Paschal Donohoe requesting funding for the feasibility study of the disused rail route as a greenway from Collooney to Bellaghy in County Sligo"
  24. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor M. Clarke:
    “To call on Sligo county council on the N59
    1. improvements carried out in the Village of Ballisodare
    2. the N59 dangerous bends at Coolaney turns
    3. pavements improvements at Templeboy/Dromore West and Camcuil areas
    4. report on any proposed sight line improvements on dangerous Junctions”.
  25. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor M. Clarke:
    “To call on Sligo County Council to have on display in the Chamber the European Union flag”.
  26. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor M. Gormley:
    “What is the up-to-date position on the replacement of the section of the water main in Keash from Ardsallagh to Feenaghroe which supplies 23 houses for which a boiled water notice went on 21st May and which Irish Water informed Sligo County Council in July that this works will be complete by the end of this year”
  27. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor P. Taylor:
    “That Sligo County Council ask the Department for a Specific Improvement Grant for verge strengthening and road resurfacing on the R293”.
  28. Votes of Sympathy.
  29. Votes of Congratulations.
  30. Conferences and Training.
  31. To note the summary of proceedings of conferences and training attended in accordance with Section 142(5) (f) of the Local Government Act, 2001.
  32. Correspondence:
    1. Correspondence dated 18th September, 2015 - Resolution adopted by Tipperary County Council re. suicide awareness, depression and mental health.
    2. Correspondence dated 24th September, 2015 – Resolution adopted by Clare County Council re. small and medium producers of beef.
    3. Correspondence dated 28th September, 2015 – Resolution adopted by Leitrim County Council re. Inheritance Tax.
    4. Correspondence dated 28th September, 2015 – Resolution adopted by Leitrim County Council re. Travel Pass.
    5. Correspondence dated 30th September, 2015 – Resolution adopted by Galway County Council re. commercial rates.
    6. Correspondence dated 9th October, 2015 – Resolution adopted by Donegal County Council re. bus pass.
    7. Correspondence dated 9th October, 2015 – Resolution adopted by Cork City Council re. revised Junior Certificate Curriculum.
    8. Letter dated 12th October, 2015 from Dublin City Council noting Sligo County Council’s resolution re. the 2012 Credit Union Act.
    9. Letter dated 14th October, 2015 from the Office of the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine acknowledging receipt of letter concerning the Beef Data and Genomics Scheme.
    10. Letter dated 15th October, 2015 from Galway City Council re. HAP system.
    11. Correspondence from Clare County Council to An Taoiseach re. Ibrahim Halawa.
    12. Letter from the Office of the Minister for Education and Skills, received on 21st October, 2015, re. proposed Technological University for the North West.
    13. Letter dated 21st October, 2015 from the Office of the Minister - Department of Finance re. new regulations for Credit Unions.
  33. Matters Arising from Minutes.
  34. Any Other Business.

 

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Meeting Date 02/11/2015