Agenda and decisions

Members are asked to declare any interests in the items under consideration and in doing so state:

(1) the type of interest concerned either a

(a)   personal interest

(b)   prejudicial interest

(c)    disclosable pecuniary interest (DPI)

and

(2) the nature of the interest concerned

If any member requires advice on declarations of interests, they are advised to contact the Head of Democratic Governance in advance of the meeting.

To consider the newly developed Community Engagement Framework, coproduced across departments, stakeholders, members and residents.

The Executive agreed the recommendations as outlined above namely:

1. To approve the Community Engagement Framework for use within the Council for 5 years until 31 December 2027, with a review after a maximum of two years to address any lessons learned or changes to local, regional or national approaches/ requirements.

2. To request the Group Company Secretary to raise the framework with all the Council’s wholly owned companies.

To report the level of spending and exposure against the Council’s Revenue budgets and reserves and balances for the first 4 months to 31 July 2022.  The report also includes an update on the Medium Term Financial Plan 2023/24 – 2026/27.

The Executive agreed the recommendations as outlined above namely:

1. To note the report.  

2.     To require the respective directors and Director of Resources to continue to closely monitor and manage service financial and operational performances, specifically Children’s Services, Treasury Management and Growth and Prosperity.

3.     To prompt the Scrutiny Leadership Board to continue to independently review the financial and operational performances of the services listed in decision 2.

4.     To continue to lobby central government (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Department for Health and Social Care and Department for Education in particular) along with local authority peers and networks and the Local Government Association for the funding necessary to cope with the burdens and demands presenting as a result of exceptional inflationary pressures and demographic demands upon statutory services.

5.     To approve that the £135,000 funding gap for the Library/Grundy Art Gallery roof will be met by additional surplus top-slice funding.

6.     To work towards increased target working balances of £8m from £6m with formal effect from the start of financial year 2023/24.

This report and appendix is currently exempt from publication by virtue of Paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972. It is considered on balance that the public interest would not be served by publishing information at this stage as this information would undermine the Council’s position in future negotiations and could risk the scheme not being able to proceed.

This report and appendix is currently exempt from publication by virtue of Paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972. It is considered on balance that the public interest would not be served by publishing information at this stage as this information would undermine the Council’s position in future negotiations and could risk the scheme not being able to proceed.