Agenda and minutes

Members are asked to declare any disclosable pecuniary or affected interests in respect of any matter to be considered at this meeting.

Any Member with a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest in a matter should withdraw from the meeting when the matter is under consideration and should notify the Democratic Services Officer in attendance that they are withdrawing as they have such an interest. If the Disclosable Pecuniary Interest is not entered on the register of Members interests the Monitoring Officer must be notified of the interest within 28 days.

Any Member with an affected Interest in a matter must disclose the interest to the meeting and must not participate in discussion of the matter or vote on the matter unless granted a dispensation by the Monitoring officer or by the Governance and Audit Committee.  There is no requirement to withdraw from the meeting when the interest is only an affected interest, but the Monitoring Officer should be notified of the interest, if not previously notified of it, within 28 days of the meeting.

To consider and approve the minutes of the meeting of the Executive held on 17 October 2017.

RESOLVED that the minutes of the meeting of the Executive on the 17 October 2017 together with the accompanying decision records be confirmed as a correct record and signed by the Leader.

The Executive considered the following items.  The decisions are recorded in the decision sheets attached to these minutes and summarised below:

There were no urgent items of Business.

To approve the draft Special Educational Needs and Disability Improvement Strategy which has been written in partnership with schools, colleges, early years settings, parents/carers, young people and other stakeholders to raise the achievement of children and young people with Special Educational Needs (SEN) and Disabilities.

RESOLVED that the Special Educational Needs and Improvement Strategy be approved.

To receive the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman Annual Review letter 2017.

RESOLVED that the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman Annual Review letter 2017 is noted.

To inform the Executive of the initial steps being taken towards the long term streamlining of the Council’s senior leadership team.

RESOLVED that the proposals for creating an integrated “People Directorate” are endorsed and noted.  

Agenda items 9 and 10  are supported by annexes containing exempt information as defined in Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972.  If the Executive wishes to discuss the content of these annexes in detail, it may choose to move the following resolution:

That pursuant to Regulation 4 of the Local Authorities (Executive Arrangements) (Access to Information) Regulations 2012  and having regard to the public interest, members of the public and press be excluded from the meeting for the consideration of items 9 & 10 which involve the likely disclosure of exempt information under the following category of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972:

(3)        Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information).

NB:      No representations were received in response to the 28 day notice of a private meeting in either case.

Agenda item 8 was also originally to be considered in private but is instead to be discussed in public and has now been made available to view online with the rest of the public reports.

RESOLVED that pursuant to Regulation 21 of the Local Authorities (Executive Arrangements) (Access to Information) Regulations 2000, members of the public and press be excluded from the meeting for the consideration of item 9 & 10 in the agenda (items 41 & 42 in theminutes) which involves the likely disclosure of exempt information under the following category of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972:

(3)        Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority).

To award the contract for the management of Bracknell Leisure Centre, Coral Reef and Downshire Golf Complex.

RESOLVED that:

1.            the contract for the management of Bracknell Leisure Centre, Coral Reef and Downshire Golf Complex be awarded to supplier C.

2.            the contract with supplier C will begin on the 1^st March 2018.

To set out progress to date in implementing the Commercial Property Investment Strategy and propose that additional capital resources of up to £30m are made available for further acquisitions, in order to secure additional income.

RECOMMENDED: that further capital sums of up to £30m are made available to support the Commercial Property Investment Strategy achieving its target level of £3m on-going additional revenue income.