Agenda

Meeting:	Executive
Members:	Councillors Carl Les (Chairman), Gareth Dadd, Derek Bastiman, Michael Harrison, Simon Myers, Janet Sanderson, David Chance, Keane Duncan, Greg White and Annabel Wilkinson.
Date:	Tuesday, 7th November, 2023
Time:	11.00 am
Venue:	Council Chamber, Selby Civic Centre, Doncaster Road, Selby, YO8 9FT

Members of the public are entitled to attend this meeting as observers for all those items taken in open session. Please contact the Democratic Services Officer whose contact details are below if you would like to find out more.

This meeting is being held as an in-person meeting that is being broadcasted and recorded and will be available to view via www.northyorks.gov.uk/livemeetings. The meeting is also ‘hybrid’, which enables people to attend the meeting remotely using MS Teams.

Recording is allowed at Council, committee and sub-committee meetings which are open to the public, please give due regard to the Council’s protocol on audio/visual recording and photography at public meetings. Anyone wishing to record is asked to contact, prior to the start of the meeting, the Democratic Services Officer whose details are at the foot of the first page of the Agenda. We ask that any recording is clearly visible to anyone at the meeting and that it is non-disruptive.

Business

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Apologies for Absence

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Minutes of the Meeting held on 17 October 2023

(Pages 5 - 12)

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Declarations of Interest

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Exclusion of the Public

Members are recommended to exclude the public from the meeting during consideration of each of the items of business listed in Column 1 of the following table on the grounds that they each involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in the paragraph(s) specified in column 2 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972 as amended by the Local Government (Access to information)(Variation) Order 2006:-

Item number on the agenda

Paragraph number

2 and 3

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Public Participation

Members of the public may ask questions or make statements at this meeting if they have given notice to Will Baines of Democratic and Scrutiny Services and supplied the text (contact details below) by midday on Thursday 2 November, three working days before the day of the meeting. Each speaker should limit themselves to 3 minutes on any item. Members of the public who have given notice will be invited to speak:

· at this point in the meeting if their questions/statements relate to matters which are not otherwise on the Agenda (subject to an overall time limit of 30 minutes);

· when the relevant Agenda item is being considered if they wish to speak on a matter which is on the Agenda for this meeting.

If you are exercising your right to speak at this meeting, but do not wish to be recorded, please inform the Leader who will instruct anyone who may be taking a recording to cease while you speak.

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Council Tax Reduction

(Pages 13 - 16)

Recommendations:

i) recommend the proposed Council Tax Reduction scheme for 2024/25 to full Council, retaining the scheme as that operating in 2023/24

ii) delegate authority to the Section 151 officer to approve the accompanying Exceptional Hardship Scheme

iii) authorise the Section 151 Officer, in consultation with the portfolio holder for Finance, to undertake the necessary consultation work to design a scheme for 2025/2026.

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Clarification Pay Policy Senior Managers

(Pages 17 - 20)

Recommendation:

i) To approve the updated paragraphs provided at section 3.1, to progress to full council.

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Members Allowances 2024/25

(Pages 21 - 40)

Recommendation:

That the Executive consider the report of the Independent Remuneration Panel for Member Allowances and to make recommendations to the meeting of Council on 15 November 2023 regarding the recommended Basic Allowance and Special Responsibility Allowances for 2024-25.

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9.	Sale of Land at Gatherley Road, Brompton on Swale (Pages 41 - 44)

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10.

Forward Plan

(Pages 45 - 56)

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11.

Any Other Items

Any other items which the Leader agrees should be considered as a matter of urgency because of special circumstances

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12.

Date of Next Meeting

Tuesday 28 November 2023 at 11am

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Members are reminded that in order to expedite business at the meeting and enable Officers to adapt their presentations to address areas causing difficulty, they are encouraged to contact Officers prior to the meeting with questions on technical issues in reports.

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Contact Details:

Enquiries relating to this agenda please contact Will Baines, Principal Democratic Services & Scrutiny Officer

Tel: 01609 533885 or e-mail: william.baines@northyorks.gov.uk

Website: www.northyorks.gov.uk

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Barry Khan

Assistant Chief Executive

(Legal and Democratic Services)

County Hall

Northallerton

Website: www.northyorks.gov.uk

Monday, 30 October 2023

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