Agenda item

To consider the recommendations made by Cabinet or Committees since the last ordinary Council meeting relating to the following matters:

i.              Review of Council Tax Support Scheme – 2022/23

ii.            Education Estates Strategy

iii.           Report in the Public Interest October 2020 – Quarter 3 Update

iv.           Council Diary 2022-23

RECOMMENDATIONS FROM CABINET HELD ON 24 JANUARY 2022

Review of Council Tax Support Scheme – 2022/23

The Leader proposed the recommendation.

Councillor King seconded the recommendation and the Mayor called on him to introduce the report.

The recommendation was put to the vote and wascarried; however, under clause 117 of the Council’s Constitution of Council Procedures, Councillor Pelling requested that his opposition was recorded.

RESOLVED: Council AGREED the recommendations in the report:

1.1  That the Council’s Council Tax Support Scheme be amended to an income band scheme subject to the changes made following the consultation, from 1 April 2022. A full copy of the Council’s Council Tax Support Scheme in the form to be recommended, is circulated as Appendix 1 to this report [Appendix 1 to the Cabinet report].

Education Estates Strategy

Councillor Flemming introduced the report and proposed the recommendation.

The Leader seconded the recommendation.

The recommendation was put to the vote and was carried.

RESOLVED: Council AGREED the recommendation in the report:

1.2To agree the proposed community schools’ Admission Arrangements for the 2023/24 academic year attached as Appendix 5 [Appendix 1 to the Cabinet report].

Report in the Public Interest October 2020 – Quarter 3 Update

The Leader introduced the report and proposed the recommendations.

Councillor King seconded the recommendations.

The recommendations were put to the vote and were unanimously carried.

RESOLVED: Council AGREED the recommendations in the report:

1.3To note the progress the Council had made in regard to achieving the recommendations set out by external auditor in the Report in the Public Interest October 2020 with 65 out of 99 actions complete;

1.4To note the outcome of internal audit of actions delivered to properly evidence what had been achieved so far, in order to provide full assurance to members and residents on the changes achieved;

1.5To note the refreshed Action Plan including actions marked complete, progress updates against open actions and identification of actions to be embedded going forward as business as usual.

RECOMMENDATIONS FROM GENERAL PURPOSES & AUDIT COMMITTEE HELD ON 25 JANUARY 2022

Council Diary 2022-23

The Leader proposed the recommendations.

Councillor King seconded the recommendations.

The recommendations were put to the vote and were unanimously carried.

RESOLVED: Council AGREED the recommendations in the report:

1.6  To note the schedule of Full Council meeting dates for 2022/23, as agreed by the General Purposes & Audit Committee.

1.7  To note the schedule of Cabinet meeting dates for 2023/23 as detailed in paragraphs 3.6 and 3.12 of the report; and

1.8  To note the proposed schedule of remaining meeting dates for 2022/23, as recommended by the General Purposes & Audit Committee, as detailed in Appendix 17 and Appendix 18, depending on the outcome from GPAC on 25 January 2022.