Announcements
To receive announcements and business brought forward by the Mayor, Leader, and Members of the Cabinet or the Chief Executive.
4.1 By the Mayor:
4.2 By the Chief Executive:
4.3 By the Group Leaders: Any apologies for absence
4.4 Council Leader and Members of the Cabinet:
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Councillor Williams Leader of the Council Councillor G Sutton Planning and Infrastructure Councillor Elliot Finance and Resources Councillor Griffiths Housing Councillor Williams Corporate and Contracted Services |
Councillor Anderson Environmental Services
Councillor Banks Community and Regulatory Services
Decision:
4.1 By the
Mayor:
The Mayor highlighted that 2020 was the year of Culture across Hertfordshire. There were various items planned in the various districts and boroughs but unfortunately most had to be cancelled due to the pandemic. A short video was presented of some of the events that did go ahead and the Mayor said he hoped it offered some joy from what was a very difficult year.
4.2 By
the Chief Executive:
C Hamilton advised that the following elections will take place on 6th May 2021:
The Hertfordshire County Council Election
The Hertfordshire Police & Crime Commissioner Election
The Tring Central Ward, Dacorum Borough Council Election &
The Tring Town Council, Bunstrux Ward Election
4.3 By the Group
Leaders:
Councillor Williams gave apologies on behalf of Councillor
Oguchi.
4.4 Council Leader and Members of the Cabinet:
(Full details are in the minutes under Announcements of the Leader and Cabinet).
Minutes:
4.1 By the
Mayor:
The Mayor highlighted that 2020 was the year of Culture across Hertfordshire. There were various items planned in the various districts and boroughs but unfortunately most had to be cancelled due to the pandemic. A short video was presented of some of the events that did go ahead and the Mayor said he hoped it offered some joy from what was a very difficult year.
4.2 By
the Chief Executive:
C Hamilton advised that the following elections will take place on 6th May 2021:
The Hertfordshire County Council Election
The Hertfordshire Police & Crime Commissioner Election
The Tring Central Ward, Dacorum Borough Council Election &
The Tring Town Council, Bunstrux Ward Election
4.3 By the Group
Leaders:
Councillor Williams gave apologies on behalf of Councillor
Oguchi.
4.4 Council Leader and Members of the Cabinet:
Councillor Williams, Leader of the Council
The Leader presented his update as follows:
At the last council meeting Councillor Tindall asked a question relating to the rollout of full fibre broadband. I have updated Councillor Tindall but didn’t give a written answer because there really wasn’t much I could add to the information I had. I have done some research on this and I’ve got back information on the rollout of 5G which I appreciate is not exactly the question that Councillor Tindall asked. In relation to the question around full fibre broadband I haven’t been able to get any additional information which relates to the speed of the rollout for Dacorum but I was able to advise Councillor Tindall that the Local Enterprise Partnership is doing work on the rollout across Hertfordshire which will include Dacorum. They are due to report towards the end of this month or early next month and that will give us an update on how that rollout is going for the whole of Hertfordshire.
Happy to take questions.
Questions:
Councillor Pringle asked if the Leader could confirm that following the meeting of the Northchurch Parish Council emergency general meeting on Monday of this week, to which The Mayor had been invited, that he was able to report back to yourself the extremely poor experiences of Northchurch residents in accessing and understanding the consultation on the portal. In particular one resident, Mrs Anne Smith, had reported that she had taken some nine hours last Saturday to submit her response.
The Mayor wished to clarify that he was in attendance at that meeting as the Hertfordshire County Councillor for Bridgewater Division but not as the Mayor of Dacorum.
The Leader replied that he and The Mayor hadn’t discussed anything from that meeting so he was not aware of the issues to which Councillor Pringle was referring to. Clearly if people are taking that length of time that is very disappointing but for the majority of people online access was available. He felt there wasn’t much more he could add as he wasn’t aware of the discussion that took place at that meeting.
Councillor Pringle said Mrs Anne Smith was ... view the full minutes text for item 4