Council - Thursday, 25th July, 2024 7.00 pm - Agenda

To confirm the Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Council held on 21st May 2024 (copy attached).

To receive any questions by Members submitted in pursuance of Standing Order 8 (3).

To consider the following Notice of Motion, which has been submitted by Cllr Peter Cullum pursuant to Standing Order 9 (1):

“This Council notes growing alarm amongst residents over proposals to put “Mega Skips” on residential streets throughout the Borough – which risk attracting fly-tipping from across three counties into our Borough and pose significant health and safety risks.

Furthermore, this Council notes resident concerns about the lack of transparency on the scope and cost of introducing mega skips across Rushmoor, and that proposals could undermine efforts to improve recycling rates.

The Council will therefore:

-   Engage in prior consultation with all households in a street before any skip is placed there, ensuring that if a significant number of objections are made that the proposal will not proceed.

-   Conduct full health and safety, policing and highways impact checks on each site being considered for mega skips.

-   Clarify the full list of items that would be permitted and prohibited for the mega skips. 

-   Publish an assessment of the costs of introducing mega skips, and whether officer time needs to be diverted from enforcement or environmental maintenance activity to supervise the mega skip days.

-   Publish an assessment of potential impacts on recycling rates.

-   Refer the proposals to PPAB for urgent revision and development.”

To consider the recommendations of the Cabinet in relation to the following item:

To receive a report from the Cabinet (copy attached – Annex 1) which presents an update on the Medium Term Finance Strategy, the budget outturn for 2023-24 and sets out an approach and timetable to identifying revenue savings, a capital receipts strategy and proposed reprofiling of the capital receipts income target for approval. Cllr Gareth Williams, Leader of the Council, will introduce this item.

To receive any questions by Members to Cabinet Members submitted in accordance with the Procedure Note.

To receive and ask questions on the Annual Report of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee (copy attached – Annex 2) for the 2023/24 Municipal Year. This item has been carried over from the cancelled Council Meeting on 25th April 2024 and a procedure note for asking questions has been circulated for Members.

To receive and ask questions on the Reports of the following Meetings (copy reports attached):

To note the Reports of the following meetings (copy reports attached):