Agenda and minutes

(a)    To receive any questions or petitions from the public, or communications submitted by the Lord Mayor or the Chief Executive and to pass such resolutions thereon as the Council Procedure Rules permit and as may be deemed expedient.

(b)    Petitions Requiring Debate

The Council’s Petitions Scheme requires that any petition containing over 5,000 signatures be the subject of debate at the Council meeting. The following qualifying petition has been received:-

Petition requesting a Fair Deal for Sheffield on Government Funding

To debate a petition containing 7, 063 signatures calling on the Government to review its policies concerning the funding allocated to Sheffield and South Yorkshire. The wording of the petition is as follows:-

“To the Prime Minister,

Sheffield is being hit hard by your Government’s cuts, threatening vital services that we value. Our Council is being forced to cut £1 in every £3 from its budget, yet more affluent parts of the Country are being let off more lightly, with much lower cuts. This is unfair and the level of cuts we are experiencing cannot go on.

We call on you to review your Government’s policies, and to give Sheffield and South Yorkshire the fair funding that we deserve.

We also ask that Sheffield City Council endorse this petition and promote it within the City”

To consider so much of the minutes of a meeting of the Cabinet held on 13^th February, 2013, arising from its consideration of (a) a joint report of the Chief Executive and the Executive Director, Resources on the Revenue Budget 2013/14 and (b) a report of the Executive Director, Resources on the Capital Programme 2013/14, and to pass resolutions thereon as appropriate.