Issue - meetings

Councillor I.T.E. Harvey

To consider the proposed letting of a Council owned property which will generate an additional income for the Council.

Reason for exemption

This report contains exempt information within the meaning of paragraph 3 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972, as amended by the Local Government (Access to Information) Act 1985 and by the Local Government (Access to information) (Variation) Order 2006):

Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information)  and in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information because, disclosure to the public would prejudice the position of the authority during the negotiation of the terms of the letting of this property. 

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

Cabinet considered an exempt report seeking approval to the letting of a property owned by the Council.

Resolved to approve the letting of property ‘A’ as detailed in the report to Cabinet.

Reason for decision

The letting will generate an additional income for the Council and reduce the Council’s current exposure to void costs.  The letting is consistent with the strategy outlined at the time of purchase.

NOTES:-

(1)       Members of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee are reminded that under Overview and Scrutiny Procedure Rule 16, the “call-in” procedure shall not apply to recommendations the Cabinet makes to the Council.  The matters on which recommendations have been made to the Council, if any, are identified with an asterisk [*] in the above Minutes.

(2)       Members of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee are entitled to call in decisions taken by the Cabinet for scrutiny before they are implemented, other than any recommendations covered under (1) above.

(3)       Within five working days of the date on which a decision of the Cabinet or a Cabinet Member is published, not less than three members [one of whom must be the Chairman] ofthe Overview and Scrutiny Committee are able to "call in" a decision;

(4)       To avoid delay in considering an item "called in”, an extraordinary meeting of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee will be convened within seven days of a "call in" being received if an ordinary meeting is not scheduled in that period;

(5)       When calling in a Cabinet decision for review the members doing so should in their notice of "call in":-

·                Outline their reasons for requiring a review;

·                Indicate any further information they consider the Overview and Scrutiny Committee needs to have before it in order to conduct a review in addition to the written report made by officers to the Cabinet;

·                Indicate whether, where the decision was taken collectively by the Cabinet, they wish the Leader or his nominee (who should normally be the Cabinet Member) or where the decision was taken by a Cabinet Member, the member of the Cabinet making the decision, to attend the committee meeting; and

·                Indicate whether the officer making the report to the Cabinet or the Cabinet Member taking the decision or his/her representative should attend the meeting.

(6)         The deadline of five working days for "call in" by Members of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee in relation to the above decisions by the Cabinet is the close of business on 25 July 2019.