Agenda and decisions

To receive any declaration of interest from any Member or Officer in respect of any item of business.

No urgent matters at the time of dispatch of this agenda.

To submit for confirmation, the draft minutes of the meeting of the Executive held on 21 January 2025.

It was RESOLVED that the minutes of the previous meeting of the Executive held on 21 January, 2025 be confirmed as correct.

To submit the report of the Head of Democracy.

It was RESOLVED to confirm the Executive’s updated Forward Work Programme for the period March – October 2025 with additional changes outlined at the meeting.

To submit the report of the Director of Function (Resources)/Section 151 Officer.

It was RESOLVED:-

·         To note the position set out in Appendices A, B and C in respect of the Authority’s financial performance to date and expected outturn for 2024/2025;

·         To note the summary of Contingency budgets for 2024/2025, detailed in Appendix CH;

·         To note the monitoring of agency and consultancy costs for 2024/2025 in Appendices D and DD;

·         To agree to the implementation of new, and amendments to, Fees and Charges for 2024/2025, detailed in Appendix E.

To submit the report of the Director of Function (Resources)/Section 151 Officer.

It was RESOLVED:-

·         To note the progress of expenditure and receipts against the capital budget 2024/2025 at quarter 3;

·         To approve the additional schemes within quarter 3, amounting to £2.696m, to the capital programme and amendments to funding, as per Appendix C, which will result in a revised capital budget of £75.173m for 2024/2025;

·         To approve the carry forward of potential underspend, as noted in Section 4.2 of the report.

To submit the report of the Director of Function (Resources)/Section 151 Officer.

It was RESOLVED:-

·         To note the position set out in respect of the financial performance of the Housing Revenue Account (HRA) for quarter 3, 2024/2025;

·         To note the forecast outturn for 2024/2025.

To submit the report of the Director of Function (Resources)/Section 151 Officer.

It was RESOLVED to note the Treasury Management Mid-Year Review report 2024/2025 and to forward the same to the Full Council without additional comments.

To submit the report of the Director of Function (Resources)/Section 151 Officer.

It was RESOLVED to approve the schedule of Fees and Charges for 2025/2026 as outlined in the booklet attached to the report.

To submit the report of the Head of Adult Services.

It was RESOLVED:-

·       To approve the recommendation to increase the fee levels as follows :-

Residential Care (Adults) - £832.56 per week

Residential (EMI) - £930.37 per week

Nursing Care (Social Care Element) - £906.70 per week

Nursing Care (EMI) (Social Care Element) - £1,071.41 per week

·       To authorise Social Services and the Finance Service to respond to any requests from individual homes to explore their specific accounts and to utilise the exercise as a basis to consider any exceptions to the agreed fees. Any exceptions to be agreed with the Adults’ Services Portfolio Member, the Director of Function (Resources)/ Section 151 Officer and the Head of Adults’ Services from within current budgets.

To submit the report of the Director of Function (Resources)/Section 151 Officer.

It was RESOLVED to endorse and to recommend the Capital Strategy 2025 – 2030 to the Full Council.

To submit the report of the Director of Function (Council Business)/Monitoring Officer.

It was RESOLVED :-

·       to recommend to the full Council that it adopts the revised Welsh language policy;

·       to support the recommendations of the Partnership and Regeneration Scrutiny Committee held on 12 February, 2025 that:-

·         a letter be sent to Welsh Government to request and emphasise the need for new legislation to protect Welsh historic place names;

·         the Leader of the Council be requested to raise the issue with the WLGA.

To submit a report by the Director of Education, Skills and Young People.

It was RESOLVED:-

·             To approve the termination of the agreement to work in partnership with other North Wales Local Authorities in the context of the regional School Effectiveness and Improvement Service (GwE) on the 31 May, 2025 and subsequently dissolve the requirement for the GwE Joint Committee;

·             It there is slippage in the timetable, the Executive Committee gives the right to the Director of Education, Skills and Young People, in collaboration with the Education Portfolio Member, to decide on a suitable date to terminate the agreement;

·             To confirm the contractual commitment in relation to ending the arrangement.