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In accordance with the Code of Conduct adopted by the City and County of Swansea, the following interests were declared: Councillor R V Smith declared a Personal & Prejudicial Interest in Minute 36 “Local Authority Governor Appointments” and stated that he had dispensation from the Standards Committee to stay, speak but not vote on matters relating to the Appointment of Local Authority Governors. Councillor R Francis-Davies and L S Gibbard – Personal – Minute 45 – Swansea Bay Sports Park – Improving the Cricket and Rugby Facilities.
Resolved that the Minutes of the meeting(s) listed below be approved and signed as a correct record: 1) Cabinet held on 18 July, 2024.
The Leader of Council made no announcements.
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The Local Authority Governors Appointment Group submitted a report, which sought approval of the nominations submitted to fill Local Authority (LA) Governor vacancies on School Governing Bodies. Resolved that: 1) The following nominations recommended by the Director of Education in conjunction with the Cabinet Member for Education & Learning be approved: 1. Bishopston Primary Mr David Mason 2. Christchurch Primary Cllr Patience Bentu 3. Hafod Primary Mrs Kristen Cornelius 4. Waunarlwydd Primary Mr Adrian Rees 5. Olchfa Comp Mr Damien Rees 6. YGG Bryn Y Mor Mrs Anna Evans 7. YGG Lon Las Mrs Susan Rodaway 8. YGG Tirdenaw Mr John James
The Cabinet Member for Corporate Services & Performance presented the Corporate Performance for Quarter 1 2024/25. Resolved that: 1) The Council’s performance achieving the Council’s Wellbeing Objectives in Quarter 1 2024/25 be noted. 2) The use of this information to inform executive decisions on resource allocation and, where relevant, corrective actions to manage and improve performance and efficiency in delivering national and local priorities be endorsed.
The Cabinet Member for Economy, Finance & Strategy presented the financial monitoring of the 2024/25 revenue and capital budgets, including the delivery of budget savings. Resolved that: 1) The comments and variations, including the heightened material uncertainties, set out in the report and the actions in hand to seek to address these be noted. 2) The virements and the use of the Contingency fund as set out in 3.2 and the Inflation provision as set out in 4.3 subject to any further advice from the S.151 officer during the year be approved. 3) The need for all Directors to continue to minimise service spending in year, recognising that the budget overall is currently balanced only by relying on future likely (but far from wholly assured) reimbursement from Welsh Government, centrally held contingency budgets and reserves be reinforced. 4) The indicative overspend in 6.1 with further actions to be confirmed in subsequent quarters once it is clearer as to the likely final cost of the pay award pending be noted.
Part of an issue followed across 4 meetings
The Cabinet Member for Corporate Services & Performance presented a report which sought agreement for the draft of the revised Gambling Policy, for the period January 2025 to January 2028, to be issued for consultation. Resolved that: 1) The proposed changes to the Council’s Gambling Policy be agreed. 2) The revised Policy be issued for consultation prior to reporting back to Council for adoption.
The Cabinet Member for Education & Learning presented a report which sought authorisation to appoint a contractor to carry out the pre-construction phase design (RIBA 3-4 with Planning Consent) for YGG Bryn Tawe. The report was necessary to comply with Financial Procedure Rule No 7 (Capital Programming and Appraisals) in order to commit the sum of £1,893,788 for pre-construction design expenditure and Contract Procedure Rule 18, relating to the evaluation and award of contracts. Resolved that: 1) The sum of £1,893,788 is committed to the capital programme. 2) The award of the Stage 1 contract for the pre-construction phase design for the development of YGG Bryn Tawe to Contractor 1 in the sum of £1,539,664.90, which is considered to represent the most economically advantageous tender and that which gives best value to the authority be approved.
The Cabinet Members for Economy, Finance & Strategy and Investment, Regeneration, Events & Tourism presented a report which sought to commit and authorise an additional £1m sum for the Skate Parks programme resulting in a total value of £2m; and to commit an additional £1m community budget to support wider community improvements via a ‘Community Investment Fund’ with a total value of £2m. Resolved that: 1) the additional capital allocation of £1m to the skate parks programme, as outlined in the report, be approved. 2) the additional capital allocation of £1m to the ‘Community Investment Fund’ to support wider community improvements be approved. Authority is delegated to the Cabinet member for Economy, Finance & Strategy, the Cabinet Member for Investment, Regeneration, Events & Tourism and the Director of Place to determine eligibility for each scheme. In the event of a scheme being submitted in one of the wards of those Cabinet members with delegated authority, the decision would be made instead by the Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Corporate Services and Performance in conjunction with the Director of Place.
The Cabinet Member for Environment & Infrastructure presented a report to confirm the Additional Capital Work Programme for highway infrastructure assets. Resolved that: 1) The proposed indicative additional allocations, together with the Financial Implications set out in Appendix A, be approved and included in the Capital Programme. 2) Authority be delegated to the Head of Service for Highways and Transportation with the agreement of the Cabinet Member for Environment and Infrastructure to prioritise, finalise and allocate funding to the appropriate schemes in line with the prioritisation approach detailed in this report.
Cabinet were requested to exclude the public from the meeting during consideration of the item(s) of business identified in the recommendations to the report(s) on the grounds that it / they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as set out in the exclusion paragraph of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972, as amended by the Local Government (Access to Information) (Variation) (Wales) Order 2007 relevant to the items of business set out in the report(s). Cabinet considered the Public Interest Test in deciding whether to exclude the public from the meeting for the item of business where the Public Interest Test was relevant as set out in the report. Resolved that the public be excluded for the following item(s) of business. (Closed Session)
No questions were asked.
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