Agenda

Corporate Support Committee - Thursday 10th October 2024 6.00 pm

Venue: Council Chamber, Arun Civic Centre, Maltravers Road, Littlehampton, BN17 5LF. View directions

Contact: Carley Lavender (Extn 37547) 

Items
No. Item

1.

Apologies

2.

Declarations of Interest

Members and Officers are invited to make any declaration of pecuniary, personal and/or prejudicial interests that they may have in relation to items on this agenda, and are reminded that they should re-declare their interest before consideration of the items or as soon as the interest becomes apparent.

 

Members and Officers should make their declaration by stating:

 

a)             the item they have the interest in

b)             whether it is a pecuniary/personal interest and/or prejudicial interest

c)             the nature of the interest

 

3.

Minutes pdf icon PDF 82 KB

The Committee will be asked to approve as a correct record the minutes of the Corporate Support Committee held on 30 April 2024.

4.

ITEMS NOT ON THE AGENDA THAT THE CHAIRMAN OF THE MEETING IS OF THE OPINION SHOULD BE CONSIDERED AS A MATTER OF URGENCY BY REASON OF SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES

5.

Public question time

To receive questions from the public (for a period of up to 15 minutes)

6.

Committee Meeting Start Times

The Committee are required to agree its meeting start times at its first meeting of the new municipal year.

7.

Technology & Digital Annual Update pdf icon PDF 137 KB

This report provides committee members with an update on the activities and progress of Technology & Digital over the last 12 months.

8.

Q1 Performance Report for the Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) which form part of the Council’s Vision 2022-2026. pdf icon PDF 96 KB

Additional documents:

9.

Corporate Complaints pdf icon PDF 149 KB

The report presents an overview of activity on corporate complaints for the period June to September 2024 to provide transparency and understanding. 

 

Additional documents:

10.

Local Government Boundary Review - Report to approve Working Party Terms of Reference and Membership pdf icon PDF 98 KB

A report to agree the Terms of Reference and membership for the Electoral Review Working Party in relation to an Electoral Review of the Arun District.

Additional documents:

11.

Customer Services - Annual Update pdf icon PDF 103 KB

This report provides members with an overview of the Customer Services team’s performance in 2023/24. 

Additional documents:

12.

Debt Management Write Off Policy Report Update pdf icon PDF 194 KB

The purpose of this report is to inform Members of the Council’s Sundry Debtors Write-Off Policy for 2024/25 as required by Part 6, Section 3 of the Council’s Constitution.

 

13.

Draft Final Out-Turn - 2023/24 - Corporate Support Committee pdf icon PDF 110 KB

The purpose of this report is to appraise the Corporate Support Committee of its draft final out-turn against the 2023/24 budgets which were approved by Full Council at its meeting of 9 March 2023, subject to external audit.

 

14.

Budget Monitoring report to 30 June 2024 pdf icon PDF 103 KB

The purpose of this report is to appraise the Corporate Support Committee of its forecast out-turn against the 2024/25 budgets, which were approved by Full Council at its meeting of the 21 February 2024.

 

15.

Budget 2025/26 Process pdf icon PDF 105 KB

The purpose of this report is to inform Members of the budget process for 2025/26 as required by Part 6, Section 2 of the Council’s Constitution.

 

Outside Bodies - feedback from meetings pdf icon PDF 93 KB

No updates have been received for this meeting.

16.

Work Programme pdf icon PDF 75 KB

Members are required to approve the work programme for the new municipal year 2024 – 2025.

17.

Exempt Information

The Committee is asked to consider passing the following resolution: -

 

          That under Section 100a (4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the public and accredited representatives of newspapers be excluded from the meeting for the following item of business on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act by virtue of the paragraph specified against the item.

 

18.

Council Tax, Business Rates and Sundry Debt Write Offs to be approved by Committee – 2024/25 Quarter 1

The Council’s constitution as set out in Part 7, Section 2, paragraph 1.1.9 requires the Group Head of Finance to submit a report to the Corporate Support Committee about the sundry debts written off in accordance with their delegated powers. The delegation is set out in Part 7, Section 2 of the constitution and under that delegated authority, £14,770 of sundry debt was written off in respect of three cases (contained in appendix 1) in February 2024.