Agenda

Annual Council, Council - Wednesday 14th May 2025 6.00 p.m.

Venue: Parkside Suite - Parkside

Contact: Jess Bayley-Hill 

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Items
No. Item

Welcome

1.

Election of Chairman 2025/26

2.

Election of Vice-Chairman 2025/26

3.

Vote of thanks to retiring Office Holders

4.

To receive apologies for absence

5.

Declarations of Interest

To invite Councillors to declare any Disclosable Pecuniary Interests or Other Disclosable Interests they may have in items on the agenda, and to confirm the nature of those interests.

6.

To confirm the accuracy of the minutes of the meeting of the Council held on 12th March 2025 pdf icon PDF 334 KB

7.

To receive any announcements from the Chairman and/or Head of Paid Service

8.

To receive any announcements from the Leader

9.

To receive comments, questions or petitions from members of the public

A period of up to 15 minutes is allowed for members of the public to make a comment, ask questions or present petitions.  Each member of the public has up to 3 minutes to do this.  A councillor may also present a petition on behalf of a member of the public.

 

10.

Urgent Decisions pdf icon PDF 116 KB

There has been one Urgent Decision since the last Council meeting in respect of the Council’s vehicle fleet.

 

11.

Constitution Review pdf icon PDF 233 KB

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12.

Appointments to Committees 2025/26 (including Political Balance) pdf icon PDF 125 KB

Additional documents:

13.

Outside Body Appointments pdf icon PDF 117 KB

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14.

Recommendation from the Licensing Committee - Primate Keeper Licensing pdf icon PDF 176 KB

Additional documents:

15.

Recommendation from the Cabinet pdf icon PDF 98 KB

To consider the recommendation from the meeting of the Cabinet held on 26th March 2025.

 

Members are asked to note that any recommendations made at the Cabinet meeting held on 19th February 2025 were considered at the full Council meeting held on 19th February 2025.

16.

Background Information on the recommendations from the Cabinet

16a

Quarter 3 Revenue and Performance Monitoring 24-25 pdf icon PDF 2 MB

17.

To note the minutes of the meetings of the Cabinet held on 19th February 2025 and 26th March 2025 pdf icon PDF 339 KB

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18.

Questions on Notice

To deal with questions on notice, if any, from Members of the Council, in the order in which they have been received.

 

A period of up to 15 minutes is allocated for the asking and answering of questions. This may be extended at the discretion of the Chairman with the agreement of the majority of those present.

 

Each elected member due to ask a question, may ask up to one supplementary question which must be based on the original question or the answer provided to that question.

19.

Motions on Notice

A period of up to one hour is allocated to consider the motions on notice.  This may only be extended with the agreement of the Council.

 

Motions on Notice will be published in a supplementary papers pack to this agenda.

20.

To consider any urgent business, details of which have been notified to the Head of Legal, Democratic and Procurement Services prior to the commencement of the meeting and which the Chairman, by reason of special circumstances, considers to be of so urgent a nature that it cannot wait until the next meeting