Agenda

Minutes of the meetings of the Corporate Services and Economic Growth OSC held on 11th July 2022, as circulated, to be confirmed as a true record and signed by the Chairman.

Unless already entered in the Council’s Register of Members’ interests, members are required?where a matter arises at a meeting;?? 

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1. Which?directly relates to?Disclosable Pecuniary Interest (‘DPI’) as set out in Appendix B, Table 1 of the Code of Conduct, to disclose the interest, not participate in any discussion or vote and not to remain in room. Where members have a DPI or if the matter concerns an executive function and is being considered by a Cabinet Member with a DPI they must notify the Monitoring Officer and arrange for somebody else to deal with the matter.? 

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2. Which?directly relates to?the financial interest or well being of a Other Registrable Interest as set out in Appendix B, Table 2 of the Code of Conduct to disclose the interest and only speak on the matter if members of the public are also allowed to speak at the meeting but otherwise must not take part in any discussion? or vote on the matter and must not remain the room.? 

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3. Which?directly relates to?their financial interest or well-being? (and is not? DPI) or the financial well being of a relative or close associate, to declare the interest and members may only speak on the matter if members of the public are also allowed to speak. Otherwise, the member must not take part in discussion or vote on the matter and must leave the room.? 

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4. Which?affects?the financial well-being of the member, a relative or close associate or a body included under the Other Registrable Interests column in Table 2, to disclose the interest and apply the test set out at paragraph 9 of Appendix B before deciding whether they may remain in the meeting.? 

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5. Where Members have or a Cabinet Member has an Other Registerable Interest or Non Registerable Interest in a matter being considered in exercise of their executive function, they must notify the Monitoring Officer and arrange for somebody else to deal with it.?? 

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NB Any member needing clarification must contact?monitoringofficer@northumberland.gov.uk. ?Members are referred to the Code of Conduct which contains the matters above in full.?Please refer to the guidance on disclosures at the rear of this agenda letter.? 

To note the latest Forward Plan of key decisions.? Any further changes made to the Forward Plan will be reported to the Committee.? 

To provide Members with:  

•An overview of progress on all broadband / connectivity projects  

•Details of forthcoming projects and their likely impact.

Councillor Richard Wearmouth, Deputy Leader and Portfolio Holder for Corporate Services is requested to attend for this item. 

At its February 2022 meeting, Corporate Services and Economic Growth Overview and Scrutiny Committee considered a report summarising the results of the Budget Consultation undertaken as part of the 2022/23 Budget setting process. At that meeting, Members requested that the Committee have the opportunity to input into the development of the Budget Consultation for the next year (2023/24).

To help the Committee to do this, this report provides a summary of  results from the last budget consultation undertaken between 10thDecember 2021and 21stJanuary 2022, setting out each of the questions asked(Appendix 1).  The report also includes summary demographic information in relation to the respondents(Appendix 2).

Councillor Richard Wearmouth, Deputy Leader and Portfolio Holder for Corporate Services is requested to attend for this item. 

The Committee is asked to review and note the Corporate Services and Economic Growth Overview and Scrutiny Committee Work Programme for the 2022/23 council year. 

It is expected that matters included in this part of the Agenda will be dealt with in private.  Reports referred to are enclosed for members and officers only, coloured pink and marked "Not for Publication".

The Committee is invited to consider passing the following resolution:

(a)    That under Section 100A (4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the press and public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the following item on the Agenda as it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Part I of Schedule 12A of the 1972 Act, and

(b)    That the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosure for the following reasons:-

Agenda Items          Paragraph of Part I of Schedule 12A

10                             3 - Contains information relating to business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information) 

AND                              The public interest in maintaining this exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosure because disclosure could adversely affect the business reputation or confidence in the person/ organisation and could adversely affect commercial revenue.

The purpose of the report is to ensure that the Cabinet is informed of the current financial positions of its trading companies and of any relevant issues arising.