Agenda and decisions

To confirm the Decisions of the previous meeting

Cabinet Agreed the minutes of the previous meeting

To receive any apologies for absence.

There were apologies from Councillor Tindall

To receive any declarations of interest

A member with a disclosable pecuniary interest or a personal interest in a matter who attends a meeting of the authority at which the matter is considered -

(i)            must disclose the interest at the start of the meeting or when the interest becomes apparent

and, if the interest is a disclosable pecuniary interest, or a personal interest which is also prejudicial

(ii)            may not participate in any discussion or vote on the matter (and must withdraw to the public seating area) unless they have been granted a dispensation.

A member who discloses at a meeting a disclosable pecuniary interest which is not registered in the Members’ Register of Interests, or is not the subject of a pending notification, must notify the Monitoring Officer of the interest within 28 days of the disclosure.

Disclosable pecuniary interests, personal and prejudicial interests are defined in Part 2 of the Code of Conduct for Members

[If a member is in any doubt as to whether they have an interest which should be declared they should seek the advice of the Monitoring Officer before the start of the meeting]

There were no declarations of interest

An opportunity for members of the public to make statements and ask questions in accordance with the rules as to Public Participation.

There was no public Participation

There were no referrals to Cabinet

There were no referrals to Cabinet

The Forward Plan was noted.

Cabinet Considered the recommendations of the Infrastructure Advisory Group (IAG) and agreed to allocate £1,364,424 of core Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) funding towards the relocation of Breakspeare Special Education Needs School

Cabinet:

1. Agreed the next stage of feasibility work as set out in Draft Project Initiation Document at Appendix 2.

2. Approved the allocation of £200,000 from the Dacorum Development Reserve to fund the Council’s share of the costs for the next stage of feasibility work.

3. Delegated authority to the Council’s Strategic Director –Place,following consultation with the Portfolio Holder for Place and the Assistant Director Legal & Democratic Services, to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding to support the delivery of the next stage of work identified in the Project Initiation Document.

Cabinet approved the attached Productivity Plan and approves its submission to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), formerly Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC).

Cabinet approved the Tenancy Strategy for 2024- 2028

Cabinet

1. Noted the 2023-24 provisional financial outturn position.

2. Approved the HRA revenue budget virements for 2024/25 set out at section 7.9 of this report.

RESOLVED TO RECOMMEND

3. Recommended that Council approve the General Fund reserve transfers for 2023/24 and 2024/25 set out at section 8.1 of this report.

RESOLVED TO RECOMMEND

4. Recommended that Council approve the Housing Revenue Account (HRA) reserve transfers 2023/24 set out at section 8.2 of this report.

RESOLVED TO RECOMMEND

5. Recommended that Council approve the supplementary capital budget requests relating to 2023/24 and 2024/25 set out at section 9.4 of this report.

6.  Approved the HRA capital virement relating to 2024/25 set out at section 9.5 of this report.

That Cabinet:

1. Agrees to award the main contract to refurbish the two existing Multi-Use Game Areas (MUGA) and construct a canopy area on the Hemel Hempstead School site to Velocity Sports.

RESOLVED TO RECOMMEND

2. Recommends to Council to agree an increase to the current proposed budget of £530k to £673k - an increase of £93k.

3. Delegates authority to the Assistant Director (Legal & Democratic Services) to execute and complete all legal agreements ancillary to the JCT Intermediate Contract with Contract Design 2016 (ICD) and/or reasonably required to complete the Project, including (but not limited to):

a. all professional appointments;

b. collateral warranties; and

c. Agreements under;

S.38, & S.278, of the Highways Act 1980;

S.247, Part III of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990;

S.104 of the Water Industry Act 1991, and

S.50 of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991.

d. Dual Use Agreement (DUA) – Still in draft format

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