Issue - meetings

To consider the minutes of the last meeting held on 3^rd September 2024.

To consider the minutes of the last meeting held on 25^th June 2024.

A Member and the Chair noted in the Minutes (LOC8-24/25) that Members of Executive would be invited to Committee to provide information on the rationale behind the choices of the Regeneration Fund projects, but this was not listed on the Agenda.

The Chief Executive was unaware of this invitation but explained with a verbal update that the UK National Government had been contacted, but the Council would likely receive confirmation of the Fund after the Autumn Budget in October 2024.

The Portfolio Holder for Growth added the Leader of the Council had written to the Mayor of the East Midlands, the Prime Minister, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government about the Fund and its importance to the District.  No response had yet been received.

The Chair thanked the Chief Executive and Portfolio Holder for Growth for the update to Committee.

A Member stated there remained questions on the rationale behind the choices of the Regeneration Fund projects; it was requested this be on the Agenda for the next Committee meeting.  All Members agreed.

A Member noted in the Minutes (LOC9-24/25) that the Minutes of the previous Shareholder Board Dragonfly Development Ltd. meeting would be shared with Committee; this was also not on the Agenda.

The Monitoring Officer explained that the July 2024 meeting of the Shareholder Board had been informal and involved training from the Council’s external Legal Advisor, but the next meeting would be formal and these Minutes would be shared with Committee.

On a question on the Minutes of a previous Executive meeting, where the Leader of the Council had stated he would resign from the Shareholder Board (this had not occurred), the Chair and Monitoring Officer explained the Leader of the Council had reversed this decision and continued to carry out this role.  The Member stated the public record needed correcting to address this if no longer the case.

Moved by Councillor Jeanne Raspin and seconded by Councillor Duncan Haywood

RESOLVED that the Minutes of a Local Growth Scrutiny Committee held on 25^th June 2024 be approved as a true and correct record.