Agenda and decisions

No apologies were received.

To receive declarations of interest from Members in accordance with the Code of Conduct (Members are directed to the guidance sheet attached)

There were no declarations of interests.

There were no questions and deputations.

The purpose of this report is to seek the Cabinet Member’s approval for the Council’s Health and Safety Performance report during the period April 2019 – March 2020.

The Cabinet Member RESOLVED to approve the Council’s Health and Safety Annual Performance Report for 2019-20, to enable it to be published as per the requirements of the Corporate Health and Safety Policy.

To inform the Cabinet Member of the Portfolio’s latest forecast financial position as at the 30th September 2020 against Revenue and Capital budgets as detailed in Appendix A.

To inform the Cabinet Member of the Portfolio’s progress against the latest 3 year savings targets in the Medium Term Financial Strategy (MTFS) as detailed in Appendix A.

To inform the Cabinet Member of the latest prudential borrowing indicators and investment benchmarking for the Council.

To seek approval from the Cabinet Member, in compliance with the Council’s Financial Regulations:

·  In conjunction with the Cabinet Member for Environment and Highways, to approve the setting up of a new reserve within the Environment and Highways portfolio;

·  In conjunction with the Cabinet Member for Leisure, Tourism and Sport, to make contributions to an existing reserve in the Leisure, Tourism and Sport portfolio.

The Cabinet Member RESOLVED to:

·  Consider the 2020/21 Revenue and Capital financial monitoring forecast.

·  Consider the portfolio’s progress against the latest 3 year savings targets in the MTFS as at 30th September 2020.

·  Consider the Council’s update to prudential borrowing indicators and investment benchmarking.

·  In conjunction with the Cabinet Member for Environment and Highways, the setting up of a new reserve for the approved £560,000 allocation from the 2019/20 Business Rates windfall allocation for short term support for the Dry Mixed Recycling contract (paragraph 5.2).

·  In conjunction with the Cabinet Member for Leisure, Tourism and Support, to approve the contribution of the year end variance for Leisure to the earmarked Leisure reserve within the Leisure Tourism and Sport portfolio (paragraph 5.3).

To give the Cabinet Member for Resources a high level view of debts owed to the Council and the action taken to recover these as at 30 September 2020. This includes the debts we have been unable to recover and need to be written off.

The Cabinet Member RESOLVED:

·  To note the outstanding levels of debt as at 30 September 2020

·  To note the level and value of debts under £10,000 authorised for write off by the Director of Resources and Deputy Chief Executive between 1 July 2020 and 30 September 2020

·  To approve the write off of a sundry income debt over £10,000 totalling £10,455.72.

The meeting is likely not to be open to the public during discussion of the following items because the reports contain exempt information as defined in Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972.

That, pursuant to Section 100A (4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the press and public be now excluded from the meeting for the remainder of the business to be transacted, on the grounds that there would be disclosure to them of exempt information in terms of paragraph 3 and 7 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the said Act.

The Cabinet Member considered these reports when making the decision for Item 6.