In consultation with Cabinet, Cllr Walters. Portfolio Holder for Health, Wellbeing and Adult Care:

1.    Approved acceptance of the offer of a grant of £59,249 from the National Leisure Recovery Fund (NLRF), administered by Sport England, to support the re-opening of the Catmose Sports facility. £57,707 will be passed on to the Council’s leisure operator.

2.    Noted the request from the Council’s leisure operator Stevenage Leisure Ltd (SLL) for additional financial support for the 2021-22 financial year.

3.    Authorised the Strategic Director for Places and the Strategic Director for Resources, in consultation with the Cabinet Member with Portfolio for Finance, to agree additional financial support to SLL of up to £43,000 (in addition to the NLRF) in 2021-22 in light of the Covid-19 impact and swimming pool closure.

4.    Authorised the Strategic Director for Places and the Strategic Director for Resources, in consultation with the Cabinet Member with Portfolio for Finance, to agree capital expenditure on maintenance works at the Catmose Sports facility, in line with lease obligations, of up to £150,000 over the financial years 2021-22 and 2022-23.

In consultation with Cabinet, Cllr Payne, Portfolio Holder for Finance, Governance and Performance, Change and Transformation:

1.    Noted the provisional outturn (subject to audit and finalisation of business rates figures) on the revenue budget and updated capital programme

2.    Approved budget carry forwards of £596k as per para 3.5.3 (b)

3.    Approved transfers to reserves of £631k as per para 3.5.3 (b)

4.    Approved of £408k funding to cover new service pressures as per Appendix E2

5.    Recommended to Council approval of 21/22 budget adjustments for new grant income of £1.567m and planned expenditure of £1.458m as per Appendix E1.

6.    Recommended to Council the setting up of one new reserve for donations received as detailed in section 3.5.3.

7.    Noted potential future pressures highlighted in Appendix G

8.    Noted changes to the capital programme as per Section 4 and Appendix F

In consultation with Cabinet, Cllr Stephenson, Deputy Leader and Portfolio Holder for Communities, Environment and Climate Change:

Recommended to Council that the spend of the Department for Transports (DfT) for the balance of the Highways Maintenance Block funding allocation, and both the Capital Pot Hole and Incentive funds received, as well as the carried forward £106,000, to the value of £1,487,000 is used for proactive highway drainage, Bridges, Street Lighting structural survey, carriageway and footway works as per Appendix A.

In consultation with Cabinet, Cllr Hemsley, leader of the Council and Portfolio Holder for Policy, Strategy and Partnerships, Economy and Infrastructure:

1.    Authorised the Strategic Director for Places to appoint Blaby District Council as the provider of the Building Control Services for an initial 3 year period.

2.    Approved an increase in budget of £52,700.