Issue - meetings

The Chair will consider the admission of any late items of Urgent Business. (Late items of Urgent Business will be considered under the agenda item where they appear. New items of Urgent Business will be dealt with under Item 19 below. New items of exempt business will be dealt with at Item 22 below).

The Leader advised the meeting that Cabinet did not have any new items of urgent business to consider. However, there were two items of late business to consider relating to items 9 and 10 on the agenda which he had accepted as urgent business. These were as follows:

An EQIA for consideration with the Borough Plan at item 9. This report was late to allow finalisation of the presentation of key data and needs urgent consideration alongside the Borough Plan. This was deemed urgent in order to agree the recommendations set out in the report and allow the borough plan to be considered alongside the budget report.

In relation to the MTFS report at item 10, there was an addendum setting out some minor updates to report which needed to be noted before considering the recommendations. The Leader advised that the addendum had to be considered with the 2019/20 Budget/Medium Term Financial Strategy (MTFS) 2019/20-23/24 at the meeting tonight to facilitate an accurate recommendation on the adoption of the 2019/20 Budget/Medium Term Financial Strategy 2019/20-2023/24 to be made to Full Council at its meeting on the 25th February 2019. Further, to meet the requirements of the Local Government Finance Act 1992, Full Council needed to approve the budget and agree the Council Tax for that year by the statutory deadline of 11th March.

Cabinet also was required to consider Appendix 7 – Overview and Scrutiny Committee Recommendations and Proposed Response. This was marked to follow in the published agenda pack and was not published with the original pack due to the requirement for an extraordinary Overview & Scrutiny Committee meeting to be held on 5th February 2019 and enable any recommendations arising from this meeting to be addressed. The appendix was now included.