Report No. 236/2018 from the Cabinet was receive, the purpose of which was to consider the recommendations and note the key decisions of the Cabinet since the publication of the agenda for the previous ordinary meeting of the Council on 20 November 2018.

Mr Brown introduced and moved the recommendations in the report.  Mr Foster seconded the recommendations.

During debate the following points were noted:

i.      At this stage there were no plans for disposal of any Council owned assets.  Investigations were focused on property maintenance and in particular heating and ventilation systems.  The council did not have an officer that was qualified to carry out the technical investigatory work on these systems;

ii.     The delegation proposed would only provide the Director for Places with the authority to reduce the Green Waste charge, any proposed increase would have to be brought back before Council for approval; and

iii.    A report on the findings of the investigation would come back to Cabinet and as with all Cabinet Reports there would be the opportunity for Scrutiny to see this report first.

RESOLVED

1)    Council NOTED the Key Decisions made by Cabinet since the publication of the agenda for the previous ordinary meeting of the Council on 12 November 2018, as detailed in Appendix A of Report No. 236/2018.

2)    Council APPROVED the recommendation from Cabinet:

a)    To keep the Green Waste charge at £35 for 2019/20, reduce the discounted fee to £26 and delegate authority to the Director for Places to set this fee annually subject to the fee not increasing beyond this amount (see appendix 3, para 3.9.3-3.9.4 of Report No. 193/2018);

b)    To fund £85k from prudential borrowing on investigation works to determine future property maintenance requirements on Council owned assets.