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.

The covering report and Appendix 1 to the report are attached to this agenda pack.  Appendix 2 to the report, detailing the outcomes of a meeting of the Electoral Matters Committee held on 30^th July 2026, will be published in a supplementary pack for this Council meeting.

The report on this subject that was considered at the Electoral Matters Committee meeting held on 30^th July 2026 has been published in a separate Background Papers Pack for the meeting.

A report on the subject of the Designation of the Monitoring Officer Function is due to be considered at a meeting of the Joint Appointments Committee scheduled to take place on 3^rd August 2026, after the publication of the agenda for this Council meeting.  Any recommendations arising from that meeting on this subject will be reported to Council in a supplementary pack for this meeting.

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.)