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.  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 1 June 2021.

RESOLVED that the minutes of the meeting of the Executive on 1 June 2021 be confirmed as a correct record and signed by the Leader.

There were no urgent items of business but item 7 had been deferred.

The Executive discussed the following items in an advisory capacity and made the following recommendations to the appropriate executive members who were to make the formal decisions under the powers delegated to them by the Leader:

RECOMMENDED to the Executive Member for Transformation & Finance that:

1          The outturn capital expenditure be noted.

2          The carry forward of £25.007m from the 2020/21 capital programme to 2021/22 be approved.

3          That the financing of capital expenditure be noted.

RECOMMENDED to the Executive Member for Transformation & Finance that:

1          The outturn expenditure for 2020/21, subject to audit, of £87.592m, which represents an under spend of £3.615m compared with the approved budget be noted.

2          The budget carry forwards of £0.193m be approved.

3          Council be invited to note the Treasury Management performance in 202/21.

4          The earmarked reserves be noted.

5          The virements relating to the 2020/21 budget be approved.

To outline the proposal to replace the existing pay on foot (on exit) parking equipment in the three town centre multi storey car parks with pay by plate (on arrival) infrastructure.

The Executive was advised that this item had been deferred.

To consider the following motion:

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 item 10 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 holding that information).

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

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 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).

RECOMMENDED to the Executive Member for Adult Services, Health & Housing that:

1          The proposed spend of £1.35 million (including a contingency of 20%) for the next phase of the Lateral Flow Test project be approved.

2          A further Contract Standing Order waiver be approved in order to continue delivering community lateral flow testing in Bracknell Forest.

3          That the current contractual arrangements with Solutions 4 Health be extended from 29 July 2021 until 31 March 2022.