Decisions

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Decisions published

21/06/2022 - Local Taxation Write Offs ref: 526    For Determination

Decision Maker: Policy and Finance

Made at meeting: 21/06/2022 - Policy and Finance

Decision published: 23/06/2022

Effective from: 21/06/2022

Lead officer: Averil Crowther


21/06/2022 - Local Taxation Write Offs ref: 521    For Determination

Decision Maker: Policy and Finance

Made at meeting: 21/06/2022 - Policy and Finance

Decision published: 23/06/2022

Effective from: 21/06/2022

Decision:

The Director of Resources submitted a report requesting committee’s approval to write off council tax and business rates debts where the company had been dissolved.

 

RESOLVED THAT COMMITTEE:

 

Approve writing off £3,463.36 in business rates with £60.00 costs and £2,988.59 of Council Tax Debts and £60.00 costs where it has not been possible to collect the amounts due.

 

Lead officer: Averil Crowther


21/06/2022 - Covid 19 Additional Relief (CARF) Update ref: 518    For Determination

Decision Maker: Policy and Finance

Made at meeting: 21/06/2022 - Policy and Finance

Decision published: 23/06/2022

Effective from: 21/06/2022

Decision:

The Director of Resources submitted a report updating committee on the Covid 19 Additional Relief Fund (CARF) that was announced by the Chancellor on 21 December 2021. A decision on next steps regarding granting relief to eligible applicants was required as well as what to do with the remaining funding.

 

The Government had issued guidance to local authorities detailing how the scheme should operate and how much each authority had been allocated. The allocation for Ribble Valley Borough Council was £1,239,191.

 

Members were reminded that they had agreed to open an initial application window for eligible businesses to apply which had closed on 28 February 2022. 33 applications had been received of which 5 had been rejected as they had already received full Small Business Rates Relief or the Expanded Retail Discount.Relief was awarded totalling £161,043.68

 

A second application window had been opened and all potentially eligible businesses invited to apply. A further 17 applications had been received, three of which had been rejected as they had already received full Small Business Rate Relief or was a duplicate application.

 

The Director of Resources suggested that each of the applicants should be awarded relief at an initial rate of 50% of the net rates payable for 2021/22 which would result in a total of £42,670.39 of CARF being granted. A third application window could then be opened with the view to bringing a final report to committee on 13 September to determine how to allocate the balance of the funding. Any funding that was not granted by 30 September 2022 would be returned to Central Government.

 

RESOLVED THAT COMMITTEE:

 

1.    Agree to award CARF at the initial rate of 50% of the net rates payable for 2021/22 to the eligible applicants detailed in the report, and

 

2.    Agree to open another application round.

 

Lead officer: Averil Crowther


21/06/2022 - Procurement Strategy ref: 520    For Determination

Decision Maker: Policy and Finance

Made at meeting: 21/06/2022 - Policy and Finance

Decision published: 23/06/2022

Effective from: 21/06/2022

Decision:

The Director of Resources submitted a report seeking approval from committee for the new Procurement Strategy covering the period 2022/23 to 2024/25.

 

She informed committee that the current strategy had been produced many years ago and was outdated. The new strategy was a complete re-write and covered the same themes as the National Procurement Strategy for Local Government, namely Showing Leadership; Behaving Commercially and Achieving Community Benefits.

 

The strategy included a series of statements regarding the approach to procurement under the themes and how it related to other policies, along with a detailed action plan. This would be reviewed on an annual basis going forward.

 

RESOLVED THAT COMMITTEE:

 

Approve the new Procurement Strategy 2022/23 to 2024/25.

 

Lead officer: Averil Crowther


21/06/2022 - Capital Outturn 2021/22 ref: 519    For Determination

Decision Maker: Policy and Finance

Made at meeting: 21/06/2022 - Policy and Finance

Decision published: 23/06/2022

Effective from: 21/06/2022

Decision:

The Director of Resources submitted a report on the capital programme outturn for this committee and to seek member approval for the slippage of some budget on one capital programme scheme from the 2021/22 financial year to the 2022/23 financial year.

 

She reported that four of the five schemes in the revised capital programme had been completed in-year with actual expenditure of £63,822 which was 90% 0f the revised estimate budget. One scheme had not been completed and slippage of £7,020 had been requested to fund expenditure on that scheme in 2022/23.

 

RESOLVED THAT COMMITTEE:

 

Approve the slippage of £7,020 budget into the 2022/23 capital programme for the Replacement IT Equipment for Councillors scheme.

 

Lead officer: Averil Crowther


21/06/2022 - Citizen's Advice Bureau - Request for Financial Assistance ref: 525    Recommendations Approved

Decision Maker: Policy and Finance

Made at meeting: 21/06/2022 - Policy and Finance

Decision published: 23/06/2022

Effective from: 21/06/2022


21/06/2022 - Household Support Fund ref: 523    Recommendations Approved

Decision Maker: Policy and Finance

Made at meeting: 21/06/2022 - Policy and Finance

Decision published: 23/06/2022

Effective from: 21/06/2022


21/06/2022 - Council Owned Assets ref: 524    Recommendations Approved

Decision Maker: Policy and Finance

Made at meeting: 21/06/2022 - Policy and Finance

Decision published: 23/06/2022

Effective from: 21/06/2022


21/06/2022 - Remodelling of Reception Area in Council Offices - Exemption to Contract Procedure Rules ref: 522    Recommendations Approved

Decision Maker: Policy and Finance

Made at meeting: 21/06/2022 - Policy and Finance

Decision published: 23/06/2022

Effective from: 21/06/2022

Decision:

The Director of Community Services submitted a report informing committee of an approval of an exception to contract procedure rules and requesting approval of a new capital scheme in respect of the remodelling of the reception area in the council offices.

 

He informed committee that following an incident and subsequent concerns from members of staff regarding their safety, a decision had been made to adapt and improve the security screens in the reception area. Because of the urgency and importance of the piece of work, a request had been made to and approved by the Director of Resources and Head of Legal and Democratic Services for an exemption from normal contract procedure rules on this occasion and the contract had been awarded for the works.

 

RESOLVED THAT COMMITTEE:

 

Approve the new capital scheme for the remodelling of the reception area in the council offices at a cost of £13,500 to be funded from the repairs and maintenance earmarked reserve.

 


21/06/2022 - Appointment to working groups ref: 517    Recommendations Approved

Decision Maker: Policy and Finance

Made at meeting: 21/06/2022 - Policy and Finance

Decision published: 23/06/2022

Effective from: 21/06/2022

Decision:

The Chief Executive submitted a report to consider the appointment of members to any working groups under the remit of this committee for the municipal year 2022/23.

 

RESOLVED THAT COMMITTEE:

 

Approve the continuance of the following working groups and their membership under the remit of this committee –

 

Voluntary Organisation Grants – Councillors S Atkinson, R Newmark, A Brown and S Fletcher

 

Budget Working Group – Councillors S Atkinson, S Hore, R Newmark, D Peat, A Brown, J Rogerson, J Hill and S Fletcher

 

Longridge Assets – Councillors R Thompson, J Clark, J Rogerson, S Hore, S Rainford and S Fletcher

 

Climate Change – Councillors D Berryman, J Clark, S Bibby, S Atkinson, J Hill, S Fletcher and R Thompson

 


16/06/2022 - Capital Outturn 2021/22 ref: 515    For Determination

Decision Maker: Economic Development

Made at meeting: 16/06/2022 - Economic Development

Decision published: 20/06/2022

Effective from: 16/06/2022

Decision:

The Director of Resources submitted a report seeking member approval for the slippage of a capital scheme budget from the 2021/22 financial year to the 2022/23 financial year.

 

Actual expenditure on this Committee’s capital programme was £7,950, which was 15.9% of the revised estimate budget.

 

One of the two schemes in the revised capital programme were completed in-year.

 

Slippage of £3000 was requested to fund expenditure on that scheme in 2022/23.

 

RESOLVED THAT COMMITTEE:

 

Approve the slippage of £3,000 budget into the 2022/23 capital programme for the Economic Development Initiatives scheme.

 

Lead officer: Averil Crowther


16/06/2022 - Land at A59 ref: 516    Recommendations Approved

Decision Maker: Economic Development

Made at meeting: 16/06/2022 - Economic Development

Decision published: 20/06/2022

Effective from: 16/06/2022


09/06/2022 - To approve the minutes of the previous meeting ref: 506    Recommendations Approved

Decision Maker: Health and Housing

Made at meeting: 09/06/2022 - Health and Housing

Decision published: 14/06/2022

Effective from: 09/06/2022

Decision:

The minutes of the meeting held on 17 March 2022 were approved as a correct record and signed by the Chairman.