Part A
1
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.
2
Substitutions
Councillors will be asked to say if they are attending on behalf of a Committee member who is absent.
3
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.
4
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.
5
Minutes of Previous Meeting
The Councillors will be invited to confirm that the minutes of the meetings held on 25 February, 13 May and 21 May 2025, including those contained in Part B of the agenda, are a correct record.
6
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.
7
Landlord Social Housing
The Committee will consider a report which demonstrates (in the City Council’s capacity as landlord of social housing) compliance and
delivery of the Regulator of Social Housing’s Consumer and Rent Standards.
The Committee will consider a report requesting that it recommends to Full Council that it approves the necessitated changes to polling stations and polling districts.
The Committee will consider a report which requests that it review and comment on Internal audit activity for the
period 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025.
The Committee will receive an update on the progress of the Council's external audit, from the external auditors, KPMG.
The Committee
will consider a report which meets the requirements of both the CIPFA Code of
Practice on Treasury Management, (the Code), and the CIPFA Prudential Code for
Capital Finance in Local Authorities, (the Prudential Code), and which requests
that it note the contents of the report.
The Committee will consider a report which sets out the financial
performance of the General Fund and the Housing Revenue Account (HRA) for the financial
year 2024/25.
The Committee will consider a report which sets out its work programme for the forthcoming 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).