Agenda

Members are reminded of their responsibility to declare any pecuniary interest in respect of matters contained in this agenda.

If you have a pecuniary interest you must withdraw from the meeting. Normally you should leave the room before the business starts to be discussed. You do, however, have the same right to speak as a member of the public and may remain in the room to enable you to exercise that right and then leave immediately. In either case you must not seek to improperly influence a decision on the matter.

Members of the public who have requested the opportunity to ask question(s) on any item(s) on the agenda will have three minutes to put their question(s) to the relevant Councillor. Members of the public will be allowed to ask one short supplementary question.

To view the procedure for public questions/ speaking click here and scroll to page 119

To receive the report of the Returning Officer.

To formally elect the Mayor of the Borough for 2024/25.

To formally elect the Deputy Mayor of the Borough for 2024/25.

The Retiring Mayor will receive tributes following his year in office.

To elect an Executive Leader for the Council.

This is a four-year appointment, last elected in 2020.

To receive a report of the Executive Leader.

To approve the appointment of Members of the Council to Committees, Working Groups, etc and to note shadow appointments for 2024/25.

To approve the appointment of Members of the Council to Committees, Working Groups, etc and to note shadow appointments for 2024/25.

To note the programme of Council Meetings for 2024/25:

·                16 July 2024

·                17 September 2024

·                19 November 2024

·                28 January 2025

·                25 February 2025

·                15 April 2025

·                13 May 2025

To receive and consider the report of the Director  of Communities and Leisure.

To consider the exclusion of the press and public for the following items of business on the ground that it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Paragraph * of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act.

By Virtue of Paragraph 3: Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information)

Condition:

Information is not exempt if it is required to be registered under-

The Companies Act 1985

The Friendly Societies Act 1974

The Friendly Societies Act 1992

The Industrial and Provident Societies Acts 1965 to 1978

The Building Societies Act 1986 (recorded in the public file of any building society, within the meaning of the Act)

The Charities Act 1993

Information is exempt to the extent that, in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.

Information is not exempt if it relates to proposed development for which the local planning authority may grant itself planning permission pursuant to Regulation 3 of the Town & Country Planning General Regulations 1992(a).

To receive and consider the report of the Director of Planning and Property.