Issue - meetings

(a)      To receive and note the minutes

(b)      To consider any recommendations contained within the minutes

(Minutes to follow)

The Chairman of the Overview and Scrutiny Board, Councillor C. Hotham, presented the minutes of the meeting of the Board held on 24^th October 2022.

Cabinet was informed that during the meeting, Members had received an update on the Levelling Up Project.  Concerns had been raised about the impact of inflation on the building costs required for work on the project.  A further update on the subject had been requested by the Board for consideration in 2023.

The Board had also received an update on the UK Shared Prosperity Fund settlement for Bromsgrove District at this meeting.  Members had learned that there were limited timescales available in which the funding could be spent in the District.

At the meeting, the Board had pre-scrutinised the Council’s Carbon Reduction Implementation Plan, which had been presented by the Portfolio Holder for Leisure, Culture and Climate Change.  The Board had agreed a number of recommendations on this subject which had been considered at the previous meeting of Cabinet.

RESOLVED that the minutes of the meeting of the Overview and Scrutiny Board held on 24^th October 2022 be noted.