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.

Councillor Eberle, Chair of the Overview & Scrutiny Panel, declared an interest in agenda item 5 as he worked for a company that worked with Thames Water.

To consider and approve the minutes of the meeting of the Executive held on 18 June 2024.

Councillor Purnell’s name was missing from the attendance on the minutes of the 18 June 2024. This would be amended to include Councillor Purnell’s attendance.

RESOLVED, subject to the amendment, that the minutes of the meeting of the Executive on 18 June 2024 together with the accompanying decision records be confirmed as a correct record.

There were no urgent items of business.

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

RESOLVED that the Executive agree the Environment and Communities Overview and Scrutiny Panel’s recommendations as set out in the Panel report (attached as Annex A) and Paragraph 5.5 of the report, taking into account the comments of the Statutory Scrutiny Officer.

RESOLVED that the public consultation on the recommended strategic priorities for the Community Safety Plan 2024-27 be approved which will start on Monday 22 July for a period of 4 weeks.

RESOLVED that the Executive agrees the report and notes the progress made by the Council in relation to its climate change strategy.

RESOLVED that

i.       a trial of HVO in one waste collection vehicle for a minimum period of 12 months from September 2024 is endorsed.

ii.     the purchase of a 5,000 litre fuel tank for the HVO to be stored and dispensed from the Commercial Centre from an existing capital waste collection budget is noted.

RESOLVEDthat

i.       the outturn capital expenditure as outlined in Table 1 and detailed in Annex A is noted.

ii.     the carry forward of £47.334m from the 2023/24 capital programme to 2024/25 is approved including that the Executive RECOMMENDS that Council approves the specific schemes listed in paragraph 5.5.

iii.    the financing of capital expenditure as shown in Table 2 is noted.

iv.    the capital virements in para. 5.16 is approved.

RESOLVED that

i.       the outturn expenditure for 2023/24, subject to audit, of £90.512m is noted, which represents an overspend of £1.225m compared with the approved budget.

ii.     the earmarked reserves as set out in Annexe C are approved.

iii.    the virements relating to the 2023/24 budget (see Annexe D) are approved

RECOMMENDED that Council note the Treasury Management performance in 2023/24 as set out in Annexe B.

To approve the Council's productivity plan as required by the Minister for Local Government.

RESOLVED that the Executive endorses the Productivity Plan for Bracknell Forest Council at Annex A and authorises the Executive Director: Resources to submit it to the Department for Housing, Local Government and Communities by 19 July.

RESOLVEDthat

i.       the Executive approves this Strategic Procurement Plan to review and

recommend an academy trust, with the Department of Education (DFE), to run the SEMH (Social Emotional Mental Health) school on the All-Saints Warfield site. The recommendation will then be considered by the Secretary of State for them to enter into a funding agreement with the recommended trust.

ii.     the Executive delegate authority to the Executive Director: People and the Executive Member for Children, Young People and Learning for the contract award decision.

RESOLVED that the procurement of a neutral agency vendor to provide the Council with agency staff is approved in accordance with the strategic procurement plan attached as Appendix A to this report.