Issue - meetings

To consider the outstanding recommendations from the meetings of the Cabinet held on 10^th September 2025.

The outstanding recommendations from the Cabinet meeting held on 10^th September 2025 were due to the deferment of the following reports at the Council meeting held on 8^th October 2025:

·       Quarter 1 2025/26 Finance and Performance Monitoring Report

·       Expansion of Commercial Waste Collection Service

In addition, any recommendations arising in respect of the Business Rates Retention (BRR) Pool 2026-2027 report, which is due to be considered at the Cabinet meeting on 19th November 2025, will be published in a supplementary pack for this Extraordinary meeting of the Council and tabled at the meeting. 

Any further recommendations arising from the Cabinet meeting due to take place on 19th November 2025 will be considered at the next Ordinary meeting of the Council on 3^rd December 2025.

Quarter 1 2025/26 Finance and Performance Monitoring

The Quarter 1 Finance and Performance Report was previously brought to the Council meeting on 8^th October 2025.

At that meeting, Members requested that Officers double checked the figures in respect of the projected deficit and the report be rescheduled for consideration at this meeting.  A revised report had therefore been brought back to this meeting.

Members were asked to note the following points:

• The Full Year Variance of £173,361 on the ‘Totals Line’ remained the same as the report brought to Council previously.

• The Full Year Projected Forecast has been amended from £587,360 to £173,361 on the ‘Totals Line’.

•  The Narrative within the report had been reviewed and improved, with a view to ensuring that full explanations were given for all variances.

• There were two areas within the report where the narrative had been materially adjusted:

Members were reminded that there was also a query at the previous Council meeting in respect of rent revenue relating to Nailers Yard.  For information, GJS Dillon had received several enquiries for office space and two enquiries for the GF food and beverage unit. The service charge schedules had also been prepared for the commercial building. Heads of terms were due to be issued to an incoming tenant that wished to let one and a half floors. The next stage was to instruct Bruton Knowles to undertake the property management role of the commercial building.

Following the presentation of the report, Members queried some areas further. These included the following:

• The costs of Bed and Breakfast (B&B) Accommodation – Members highlighted that there were differing spends included in the report on the costs for B&B accommodation. The Interim Section 151 undertook to provide Members with the correct amount following the meeting.

Members were reassured that the errors contained within the report were one off and that the finer details were being looked at by the Finance Team to ensure that the reports such as these were accurate going forward. Some Members requested that Internal Audit be involved in looking at the areas where errors had been identified within this report previously in order to ensure that this did not happen  ...  view the full minutes text for item 63