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Agenda
Part A
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Welcome and Announcements
The Chairman will welcome members of the public and Councillors and remind everyone to use microphones at all times when they are speaking. The Chairman will also explain action in the event of an emergency, mobile phones switched to silent, audio-recording of the meeting. Councillors who are members of the committee will introduce themselves.
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Substitutions
Councillors will be asked to say if they are attending on behalf of a Committee member who is absent.
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Urgent Items
The Chair will announce if there is any item not on the published agenda which will be considered because it is urgent and will explain the reason for the urgency.
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Declarations of Interest
Councillors will be asked to say if there are any items on the agenda about which they have a disclosable pecuniary interest which would prevent them from participating in any discussion of the item or participating in any vote upon the item, or any other registerable interest or non-registerable interest.
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Minutes of Previous Meeting
The Councillors will be invited to confirm that the minutes of the meeting held on 6 November 2024 are a correct record.
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Have Your Say! (Hybrid Council meetings)
Members of the public may make representations to the meeting. This can be made either in person at the meeting or by joining the meeting remotely and addressing the Committee via Zoom. Each representation may be no longer than three minutes. Members of the public wishing to address the Committee must register their wish to address the meeting by e-mailing democratic.services@colchester.gov.uk by 12.00 noon on the working day before the meeting date. In addition, a written copy of the representation will need to be supplied.
The Committee will receive a report requesting that it consider the results of the consultation on
the temporary suspension of the requirement for all licensed hackney carriage
and private hire vehicles to meet the Eurocap 4 (petrol)
and Eurocap 6 (diesel) emissions standards as contained within the current Policy.
The Committee will consider a report detailing proposed changes to the
Council’s Scrap Metal Policy and which recommends the approval of this draft Policy
to enable a formal consultation process to take place. The proposed changes are intended to improve
the clarity of the Policy; no substantial content changes have been made.
The Committee will consider a report setting out its work programme for the current municipal year.
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Exclusion of the Public (not Scrutiny or Executive)
In accordance with Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972 to exclude the public, including the press, from the meeting so that any items containing exempt information (for example confidential personal, financial or legal advice), in Part B of this agenda (printed on yellow paper) can be decided. (Exempt information is defined in Section 100I and Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972).
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Declarations of Interests
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