Issue - meetings

To receive the minutes and consider the recommendations and/or referrals from the following meetings of the Executive Committee:

11th June 2013

Matters requiring the Council’s consideration include:

• Financial Reserves Statement 2012/13;
• Access for Disabled People Task Group Monitoring Update;
• Compulsory Purchase Order - 11 Clent Avenue, Redditch; and
• Restructure Enabling Heads of Service.

(Reports and decisions attached. The Compulsory Purchase Order report contains exempt information as defined in Paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 of Part I of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972, as amended. For this reason it has been circulated to Members and relevant Officers only. In respect of the Restructure of the Enabling Heads of Service report, subsequent to the meeting of the Executive Committee the relevant parties were consulted on the contents of the report and thus the report and decision are no longer deemed exempt.)

9th July 2013

Matters requiring the Council’s consideration include:

• Council Plan.

(Decision attached. The draft Council Plan is available as part of the papers for the Executive Committee on 9^th July 2013. A final draft of the Council Plan as intended for general publication is to follow next week.)

(Minutes circulated in Minute Book 2 – 2013/14)

Councillor David Bush declared an Other Disclosable interest in minute no. 27 of the minutes of 9^th July and left the room during its consideration and determination.

Members considered the minutes of the Executive Committee meetings of 11^th June and 9^th July 2013.

11^th June

In proposing the recommendations contained in the minutes of the meeting of 11^th June, the Leader suggested that consideration of the recommendations at minute no. 18, Restructuring Enabling Heads of Service, be deferred to the next meeting of the Council.  This was due to the timescale between receipt of consultation feedback and the current meeting.  This was agreed.

During consideration of the recommendations relating to the Financial Reserves Statement, it was noted that the Council’s Section 151 officer would review the presentation of financial information to make it more accessible in future.

Further to a query arising from the recommendation at minute no.10 to install a canopy over the access ramp to Shopmobility, the Deputy Chief Executive confirmed that officers would ask Shopmobility if funding could be released to provide artwork for this similar to that decorating other bus shelters in the Borough.

RESOLVED that

the minutes of the Executive Committee meetings held on 11^th June and 9^th July be received and all recommendations adopted, with the exception of the recommendation at minute no.18, 11^th June 2013, Enabling Heads of Service, which stands deferred for consideration at the next meeting of the Council.