Agenda

Meeting:

Executive

Members:

Councillors Carl Les (Chairman), Mark Crane, Gareth Dadd, Keane Duncan, Michael Harrison, Simon Myers, Heather Phillips, Janet Sanderson, Greg White and Annabel Wilkinson.

Date:

Tuesday 28th May 2024

Time:

11.00 am

Venue:

The Grand meeting room, County Hall, Northallerton DL5 8AD

 

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. Please contact the Democratic Services Officer whose contact details are below if you would like to find out more.

 

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, a copy of which is available to download below. 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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1.  

Apologies for Absence

 

 

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2.  

Declarations of Interest

 

 

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3.  

Public Participation

 

 

Members of the public may ask questions or make statements at this meeting if they have given notice to Elizabeth Jackson, Principal Democratic Services Officer elizabeth.jackson@northyorks.gov.uk and supplied the text by midday on Wednesday 22 May, 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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4.  

Q4 Performance Monitoring and Budget Report

(Pages 5 - 220)

 

 

Recommendations

 

That the Executive

 

a.    notes the outturn position against the 2023/24 Revenue Budget, as summarised in paragraph 2.2.2.

b.    notes the outturn position for the Housing Revenue Account as set out in paragraph 2.3.1.

c.     approves the creation of a £10m reserve to provide for capital cost over-runs as described in paragraph 2.1.6.

d.    endorses the draft Productivity Plan set out in Appendix I and delegates authority to the Corporate Director Resources, in consultation with the Executive member for Finance, to make any relevant changes prior tofore final submission to DLUHC.

e.    Note the performance of the Treasury Management operation during 2023/24 and the outturn position on Prudential Indicators.

f.      to note the position on capital outturn as detailed in Appendices A to D

g.    to approve the allocation of £2m from the Strategic Capacity Reserve to complete the Ripon Leisure Centre project (paragraph 4.3.5).

h.    to recommend to the Council, the proposed carry forward to 2023/24 of the   net capital underspend totalling £12.4m as set out in paragraph 4.4.2

i.      to approve the financing of capital expenditure as detailed in paragraph 4.5.1

 

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5.  

Environment Agency Grants for North Bay Urgent Wall Improvements – Phase 2

(Pages 221 - 234)

 

 

Recommendations

 

i)          Executive accept the capital grant contribution of £1,510,855 from the Environment Agency

 

ii)         Subject to following the relevant procurement procedures, delegate to the Corporate Director of Environment, in consultation with the Corporate Director of Resources, the Assistant Chief Executive Legal & Democratic Services and  Executive Member for Highways and Transportation, Road Safety and Cycling, the authority to enter into contract with a specialist consultant to design, and project manage the works, and a contractor to construct works, subject to the cost of the works being contained within the current grant awarded

 

iii)        Executive agree to receive a further report once the full costs are known if further grant funding is required prior to the approval of a construction contract and the works starting.

 

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6.  

Acceptance of the Music Hub Grant to run the North Yorkshire/York Music Hub to deliver the National Plan for Music Education

(Pages 235 - 250)

 

 

Recommendation

 

That the Executive authorises the acceptance of the revenue grant for £947,053 and the capital grant is £311,099 (totalling £1,258,152) for the delivery of the new Music Hub for North Yorkshire and York.

 

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7.  

Forward Plan

 

(Pages 251 - 268)

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8.  

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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9.  

Date of Next Meeting - 11 June 2024

 

 

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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 Elizabeth Jackson, Principal Democratic Services Officer

Tel: 01423 556409                                 or e-mail: elizabeth.jackson@northyorks.gov.uk

Website: www.northyorks.gov.uk

 

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Barry Khan

Assistant Chief Executive Legal and Democratic Services

 

County Hall

Northallerton

 

Friday 17 May 2024

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