Agenda and minutes

Cllr Tindall gave apologies on behalf of Cllrs Hobson, Townsend, Uttley, Symington, Woolner & Pringle.

Cllr Williams gave apologies on behalf of Cllrs Chapman, Oguchi, Imarni, Sinha & Barrett.

Apologies were also received from Cllr Maddern.

Cllrs Durrant & McDowell were also absent.

To receive any declarations of interest

None.

21 September 2021

3.1       CA/058/21       SOUTH WEST HERTS JOINT STRATEGIC PLAN

Cllr Williams introduced the recommendation, seconded by Cllr Griffiths and agreed.

Resolved:

That the Statement of Common Ground (SoCG) underpinning the Joint Strategic Plan (JSP) as set out in Appendix 1 of the report to Cabinet is approved.

That the Statement of Community Involvement for the Joint Strategic Plan (as set out in Appendix 2 of the Cabinet report) is approved for consultation.

3.2       CA/059/21       QUARTER 1 FINANICIAL MONITORING REPORT

Cllr Williams introduced the recommendation, seconded by Cllr Griffiths.

Cllr Tindall commented that this MTFS is a good construct given the government are useless and officers have to wait until later in the year for the settlement to be finalised, adding that officers should therefore be commended.

Cllr Williams responded that it has been normal practice for settlement not to be received until December, noting this is historical and is no different to any government that has gone before.

Recommendations agreed.

Resolved:

To approve the revised HRA capital programme to move £4.63m slippage identified at Quarter 1 into financial year 2022/23 as detailed in Appendix C of the report to Cabinet.

That Council approve a supplementary revenue budget of £590k in the Leisure budget, funded from the Economic Recovery Reserve, for financial support to the Council’s leisure provider Everyone Active.

3.3       CA/060/21       MEDIUM TERM FINANICAL STRATEGY

Cllr Williams introduced the recommendation, seconded by Cllr Griffiths and agreed.

Resolved;

To approve the revised Medium Term Financial Strategy for the period 2021/22 – 2025/26, including the recommendations at Section 2 of the Strategy.

To consider passing a resolution in the following terms:

That, under s.100A (4) of the Local Government Act 1972 Schedule 12A Part 1 as amended by the Local Government (Access to Information) (Variation) Order 2006 the public be excluded during the items in Part 2 of the Agenda for this meeting, because it is likely, in view of the nature of the business to be transacted, that, if members of the public were present during those items, there would be disclosure to them of exempt information relating to the financial and business affairs of the Council and third party companies/organisations.

Local Government Act 1972, Schedule 12A, Part 1, paragraph 3.

Resolved:

That, under s.100A (4) of the Local Government Act 1972 the public be excluded during the item in part II of the Agenda for this meeting, because it is likely, in view of the nature of the business to be transacted, that if members of the public were present during this item, there would be disclosure to them of exempt information relating to the financial affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information) (Item 5).

Full details can be found in the Part 2 Minutes.