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Items
No. Item

1.

Apologies

To receive any apologies for absence. The quorum for Cabinet is 3 members.

 

2.

Declarations of Interest

To receive any declarations of interest from Members and Officers, relating to items to be considered at the meeting.

3.

Minutes pdf icon PDF 569 KB

To approve the minutes of the previous meeting of Cabinet held 10 March 2025.

 

4.

Leader's Announcements

To receive any announcements from the Leader of the Council.

5.

Public Questions

To deal with questions from the public within the open forum question and answer session of fifteen minutes in total. Questions from each member of the public should be no longer than one minute each and relate to issues under the Cabinet’s remit. At any one meeting no person may submit more than two questions and no more than two such questions may be asked on behalf of one organisation.

 

The Leader will ask whether any members of the public present at the meeting wish to ask a question and will decide on the order of questioners.

 

The response may take the form of:

a)    a direct oral answer;

b)    where the desired information is in a publication of the Council or other published work, a reference to that publication; or

c)    where the reply cannot conveniently be given orally, a written answer circulated later to the questioner.

6.

Member Questions

No Member Questions have been submitted prior to the publication of the agenda.

 

A Member of the Council may ask the Leader or a Cabinet Member a question on any matter in relation to which the Council has powers or duties or which affects the Cotswold District. A maximum period of fifteen minutes shall be allowed at any such meeting for Member questions.

 

A Member may only ask a question if:

a)    the question has been delivered in writing or by electronic mail to the Chief Executive no later than 5.00 p.m. on the working day before the day of the meeting; or

b)    the question relates to an urgent matter, they have the consent of the Leader to whom the question is to be put and the content of the question is given to the Chief Executive by 9.30 a.m. on the day of the meeting.

 

An answer may take the form of:

a)    a direct oral answer;

b)    where the desired information is in a publication of the Council or other published work, a reference to that publication; or

c)    where the reply cannot conveniently be given orally, a written answer circulated later to the questioner.

7.

Schedule of Decisions taken by the Leader of the Council and/or Individual Cabinet Members pdf icon PDF 607 KB

To note the decisions taken by the Leader and/or Individual Cabinet Members since the agenda for Cabinet 10 March 2025 was published.  The following non-key decisions have been taken by individual Cabinet Members under delegated authority:

 

1.    Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Finance and Transformation

Decision meeting 3 March 2025 – Funding decisions Bourton-on-the-Water Tourism Levy 2024/2025.

Non-key decision taken by the Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for 

Finance and Transformation on 3 March 2025

 

Date decision effective: 13 March 2025

Decision notice attached as Appendix 1

 

2.    Cabinet Member for Health, Culture and Visitor Experience

Decision Meeting 14 March 2025 – Variations approval to the Council’s Off-Street parking Order for The Chippings car park

Non-key decision taken by the Cabinet Member for Health, Culture and Visitor Experience.

 

Date decision effective: 27 March 2025

Decision notice attached as Appendix 2

 

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8.

Issue(s) Arising from Overview and Scrutiny and/or Audit and Governance

To receive any recommendations from the Overview and Scrutiny Committee and to consider any matters raised by the Audit and Governance Committee.

9.

Financial Performance Report 2024-25 Quarter Three pdf icon PDF 825 KB

Purpose

This report sets out the third budget monitoring position for the 2024/25 financial year.

 

Recommendations

That Cabinet resolves to:

1.     Review and notes the financial position set out in this report.

2.     Approve the transfer of the improved surplus (£0.435m) to the Financial Resilience Reserves, as set out in Paragraph 4.7 of the report.

3.     Approve the revised Capital Programme of £7.550m including additional expenditure of £0.238m on Disabled Facilities following the allocation of additional Disabled Facilities Grant funding provided by Gloucestershire County Council. (para 2.10).

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