Agenda and minutes

To sign the Minutes of the meeting of the Council held on 25 May 2023.

RESOLVED that the Minutes of the meeting of Council held 25 May 2023 on be approved as a correct record and signed.

To receive any apologies for absence.

Apologies for absence were received from Councillors Blacker, Booton, McKenna, Parnall, Ritter, Stevens and Tary.

To receive any declarations of interest.

There were none.

To consider any urgent business.

There was no urgent business for Council to address.

To consider any questions received from Members of the Council under Council Procedure Rule 2.15.

Sixteen questions with notice were received from Members of the Council. Two were on the same subject and received a joint response. Three were from Members who provided their apologies to the meeting and therefore were to receive written responses. Two were additional. Oral responses were therefore received at the meeting to eleven questions with written responses provided to five questions in accordance with Procedure Rule 2.15.8.

Note: For more information on the response to Council questions, please see the following page on the Council’s website:

https://reigate-banstead.moderngov.co.uk/ecCatDisplay.aspx?sch=doc&cat=13260

To receive and consider the recommendations of the Council’s Executive, Committees and Sub-Committees for decision, including:

The meeting of the Executive held on 13 July 2023:

·       Medium Term Financial Plan 2024/25 to 2028/29

Related Committee agenda, reports and minutes are available here.

·       Capital Investment Strategy

Related Committee agenda, reports and minutes are available here.

RESOLVED: to adopt the Medium Term Financial Plan 2024/25 to 2028/29 as the framework for the budget elements of service and financial planning for 2024/25 onwards.

RESOLVED: to adopt the Capital Investment Strategy as the framework for the Capital Programme elements of service and financial planning for 2024/25 onwards.

To receive any statement from the Leader of the Council, Members of the Executive, Chairmen of Committees or the Managing Director.

There were no statements made.

To receive any announcements by the Leader of the Council.

There was no statement made by the Leader.

To receive any announcements from the Mayor.

The Mayor acknowledged the many engagements he had undertaken since taking up his role including a 103^rd birthday celebration, a performance by Banstead Prep School and a Surrey Youth Arts Event. Councillor Ashford and the Community Partnership Team were thanked for inviting the Mayor to the latter.

The Mayor thanked all those involved in making his Civic Service a success including Reverend Gill Long and Scouts Anthony Squibb and Benjamin Squibb who gave an entertaining performance. The Deputy Mayor was thanked for attending the Armed Forces service.

Further information about the Mayor’s events would be forthcoming. Members were encouraged to attend those in their wards and in order to facilitate this to contact the Mayor’s Office. The celebration of the Volunteer Award nominees and winners was anticipated on 26 September 2023. Reigate Town Hall would be open as part of the Heritage Open Day festival on 9 September 2023. This would also be the date for Pride in Surrey.