Agenda item

Overview and Scrutiny Committee – 2 November 2017

 

Minute 55 - Treasury Management Mid-Year Review (page 19)

 

Policy and Resources Committee – 23 November 2017

 

Minute 42 – Timetable of Meetings 2018 - 2019 (page 31)

 

Minute 43 – Localisation of Council Tax Support 2018/2019 Scheme (page 37)

 

Minute 45 - Application to the Department for Communities and Local Government for a North Yorkshire and East Riding 100% Business Rates Retention Pilot in 2018/19 (page 43)

 

Minute 47 – Combined Authority Update (page 57)

Overview and Scrutiny Committee – 2 November 2017

 

Minute 55 – Treasury Management Mid-Year Review

 

It was moved by Councillor Clark and seconded by Councillor Acomb that the following recommendations of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee be approved and adopted.

 

That Council agree the recommendations within the report.

 

Upon being put to the vote the motion was carried.

 

Resolved

 

That Council agree the recommendations within the report.

 

Voting Record

27 For

0 Against

0 Abstentions

 

Policy and Resources Committee – 23 November 2017

 

Minute 42 – Timetable of Meetings 2018 - 2019

 

It was moved by Councillor Ives and seconded by Councillor Steve Arnold that the following recommendations of the Policy and Resources Committee be approved and adopted, subject to the consent of the Chairman of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee.

 

That Council be recommended to approve the timetable of meetings attached as Annex A to the report.

 

The Chairman of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee confirmed his consent, subject to an amendment being agreed.

 

The amendment was then moved by Councillor Clark and seconded by Councillor Acomb:

 

To add

 

“That the Scrutiny and Audit rows of the timetable be combined as a single row for the Overview and Scrutiny Committee (including Audit).”

 

Upon being put to the vote the amendment was carried.

 

Voting Record

28 For

0 Against

0 Abstentions

 

Upon being put to the vote the motion was carried.

 

Resolved

 

(i)            That Council approve the timetable of meetings attached as Annex A to the report.

 

(ii)          That the Scrutiny and Audit rows of the timetable be combined as a single row for the Overview and Scrutiny Committee (including Audit).

 

Voting Record

27 For

0 Against

0 Abstentions

 

Minute 43 – Localisation of Council Tax Support 2018/2019 Scheme

 

It was moved by Councillor Ives and seconded by Councillor Steve Arnold that the following recommendations of the Policy and Resources Committee be approved and adopted.

 

That Council is recommended to;

 

(i)      approve a Local Council Tax Support Scheme for 2018/19 which is unchanged from 2017/18; and

(ii)     authorise the Finance Manager in consultation with the Chairman of Policy and Resources Committee to undertake the necessary consultation work to design a scheme for 2019/20, in light of the experience in previous years, to be presented to Policy and Resources Committee in December 2018.

 

Upon being put to the vote the motion was carried.

 

Resolved

 

That Council:

 

(i)      approve a Local Council Tax Support Scheme for 2018/19 which is unchanged from 2017/18; and

(ii)     authorise the Finance Manager in consultation with the Chairman of Policy and Resources Committee to undertake the necessary consultation work to design a scheme for 2019/20, in light of the experience in previous years, to be presented to Policy and Resources Committee in December 2018.

 

Voting Record

27 For

0 Against

0 Abstentions

 

Minute 45 – Application to the Department for Communities and Local Government for a North Yorkshire and East Riding 100% Business Rates Retention Pilot in 2018/19

 

It was moved by Councillor Ives and seconded by Councillor Steve Arnold that the following recommendations of the Policy and Resources Committee be approved and adopted.

 

2.1  That Council agrees with the action taken that Ryedale District Council, as a member of the North Yorkshire Business Rates Pool, be part of the North Yorkshire & East Riding submission to the Department for Communities and Local Government to become a 100% Business Rates Pilot in 2018/19.

 

2.2  Should the application be successful, delegated authority be given to the s151 Officer in conjunction with the Chair of the Policy and Resources Committee to formalise the pilot pool governance arrangements highlighted within the application.

 

Upon being put to the vote the motion was carried.

 

Resolved

 

2.1  That Council agrees with the action taken that Ryedale District Council, as a member of the North Yorkshire Business Rates Pool, be part of the North Yorkshire & East Riding submission to the Department for Communities and Local Government to become a 100% Business Rates Pilot in 2018/19.

 

2.2  Should the application be successful, delegated authority be given to the s151 Officer in conjunction with the Chair of the Policy and Resources Committee to formalise the pilot pool governance arrangements highlighted within the application.

 

Voting Record

27 For

0 Against

0 Abstentions

 

Minute 47 – Combined Authority Update

 

It was moved by Councillor Ives and seconded by Councillor Steve Arnold that the following recommendations of the Policy and Resources Committee be approved and adopted.

 

2.1      That Council supports the development of a combined authority to include Ryedale, with officers attending any future discussions, on the principle of a partnership of the willing.

 

2.2      That the preferred geography for a Combined Authority to include Ryedale to be that which includes as great a portion of the Yorkshire Region as possible and including as a minimum, York, North Yorkshire and East Riding.

 

Upon being put to the vote the motion was carried.

 

Resolved

 

2.1      That Council supports the development of a combined authority to include Ryedale, with officers attending any future discussions, on the principle of a partnership of the willing.

 

2.2      That the preferred geography for a Combined Authority to include Ryedale to be that which includes as great a portion of the Yorkshire Region as possible and including as a minimum, York, North Yorkshire and East Riding.

 

Recorded vote

 

For - Councillors Acomb, Steve Arnold, Val Arnold, Bailey, Cleary, Cowling, Cussons, Duncan, Farnell, Frank, Gardiner, Goodrick, Hope, Ives, Jainu-Deen, Oxley, Raper, Sanderson, Elizabeth Shields, Wainwright and Windress.

 

Against - Councillors Joy Andrews, Clark, Potter and Thornton.

 

Abstentions – Councillors Paul Andrews, Burr and Jowitt.