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Agenda
Part A
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Welcome and Announcements
The Chair will welcome members of the public and Councillors and remind everyone to use microphones at all times when they are speaking. The Chair 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 meetings held on 17 December 2024 and 21 January 2025, including those minutes contained in Part B of this agenda, 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 consider a report requesting that it
review the Growth Strategy for the newly structured Amphora, and make
recommendations to Cabinet to approve the direction of growth.
The Committee will consider a report which provides it with the first annual
Shareholder report of the Council’s Local Authority Trading Company (LATCo),
Colchester Commercial (Holdings) Ltd (and its subsidiary companies), and its
Arm’s Length Management Organisation (ALMO), Colchester Borough Homes Ltd, to
enable the Committee to fulfil its role as the shareholder committee.
The committee will consider a report which sets out the
2024/25 General Fund and Housing Revenue Account positions, for both revenue
and capital, as of 31st December 2024 (“Quarter 3”).
The Committee will consider a report which asks it to approve the Annual Governance Statement which had been amended as the result of recommendations made by the Council's External Auditors.
The Committee will consider a report
which requests that it approve the 2023/24 statement of accounts, noting the
2023/24 Audit Plan, Letter of Representation to be signed by the S151 Officer
and two audit reports: the Year-End Report to the Governance and Audit
Committee (ISA 260 report), and the Auditors’ Annual Report; and that it notes and
approves the Annual Governance Statement, to be signed by the Leader of the
Council and the Chief Executive; and that it notes and agrees the Audit Plan
for 2024/25.
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).
Part B
Item 7(i) Appendix A - Confidential Amphora Growth Review - April 2025
- This report is not for publication by virtue of paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972 (financial / business affairs of a particular person, including the authority holding information).
Item 7(i) Appendix B - Confidential Amphora Financial Performance report 2024-2025
- This report is not for publication by virtue of paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972 (financial / business affairs of a particular person, including the authority holding information).
Item 7(i) Appendix C - Confidential Amphora Baseline 5 Year Forecast 2025-2030
- This report is not for publication by virtue of paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972 (financial / business affairs of a particular person, including the authority holding information).
Governance and Audit draft minutes - Part B 21-01-2024
- This report is not for publication by virtue of paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972 (financial / business affairs of a particular person, including the authority holding information).
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Declarations of Interests
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