Agenda and minutes

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Items
No. Item

CO/21

Declarations of Members' Interests

To receive any declarations of interest from Members

Minutes:

There were no declarations of interest.

CO/22

Announcements

To receive any announcements from the Chairman of the Council, the Leader, Members of the Cabinet or the Chief Executive

Minutes:

The Chairman:

 

·        Welcomed Ann-Maria Brown, Interim Monitoring Officer to her first meeting of the Council

·        Advised Members that he had sent congratulations to Mr David Sayers of Henfield who had been recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List and made a Medallist of the Order of the British Empire for services to the community in Henfield.

 

The Cabinet Member for Community and Wellbeing reported that Horsham had gained dementia-friendly community status.

CO/23

Exclusion of the Press and Public

Minutes:

            RESOLVED

 

            That, under Section 100A of the Local Government Act 1972, the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the following item of business, on the grounds that it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information, as defined in Paragraph 3 of Part I of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972 (information relating to the financial and business affairs of any particular person (including the Authority holding that information)), and in all the circumstances of the case the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.

 

CO/24

Cabinet recommendations pdf icon PDF 53 KB

To receive the recommendation of the meeting of Cabinet held on 29th June 2017 in respect of the approval of a capital budget for the acquisition of a commercial property

 

Note: It is likely that the debate on this recommendation will be held in exempt session

Minutes:

The Leader reported that Cabinet, at its meeting on 29th June 2017, had approved the proposed acquisition of a commercial property in Horsham town centre for investment purposes subject to Council’s approval of the required capital budget in the current year.

 

The Leader detailed the rationale for acquiring the property and outlined the expected impact of the proposed purchase on the Medium Term Financial Strategy.

 

It was moved and seconded that the required supplementary capital budget should be approved.

 

            RESOLVED

 

            That a supplementary capital budget of £15,000,000 be approved to enable the purchase to proceed.

 

            REASON

 

            To enable the Council to expand its commercial investment portfolio in order to continue to build a revenue stream to support the Council’s general activities.

 

CO/25

Urgent Business

To consider matters certified by the Chairman as urgent

Minutes:

There was no urgent business to be transacted.