Agenda

To invite Councillors to declare any Disclosable Pecuniary Interests or Other Disclosable Interests they may have in items on the agenda, and to confirm the nature of those interests.

To consider Announcements under Procedure Rule 10:

a)           Mayor’s Announcements

b)           The Leader’s Announcements

c)           Chief Executive’s Announcements.

The minutes of the Executive Committee meeting held on 26^th February 2024 have been attached for noting.  However, Members are asked to note that the recommendations arising from this meeting have already been considered and approved at a meeting of the Council held on 26^th February and therefore no decision will be required on these minutes at this meeting of Council.

NOTE: Confidential appendices, Appendices E – G, attached for this report has only been made available to Members and relevant Officers. Should Members wish to these appendices in any detail, a decision will be required to exclude the public and press from the meeting on the grounds that exempt information is likely to be divulged, as defined in paragraph 3 of Schedule 12 (a) of Section 100 1 of the Local Government Act 1972, as amended by the Local Government (Access to Information) (Variation) Order 2006.

(Paragraph 3: Subject to the “public interest” test, information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information).)

On the date of the publication of the Council agenda it was not anticipated that any recommendations would be made at the Executive Committee meeting immediately prior to Council that would require Council consideration.  However, should any recommendations be agreed at the Executive Committee meeting, these will be tabled at the Council meeting.

To note any decisions taken in accordance with the Council’s Urgency Procedure Rules (Part 9, Paragraph 5 and/or Part 10, Paragraph 15 of the Constitution), as specified.

Urgent decisions have been taken on the following subjects since the previous meeting of Council:

·             Levelling Up Cultural Funding – Urgent Decision and background information attached.

·             Productivity Plan – Urgent Decision and Productivity Plan Report attached.  Members are also advised to refer to Minute Item No. 7 in the minutes of the Executive Committee meeting held on 9^th July 2024 for further background information in respect of this matter.

To consider any additional items exceptionally agreed by the Mayor as Urgent Business in accordance with the powers vested in him by virtue of Section 100(B)(4)(b) of the Local Government Act 1972.

(This power should be exercised only in cases where there are genuinely special circumstances which require consideration of an item which has not previously been published on the Order of Business for the meeting.)