Resources Policy and Scrutiny Committee - 14 August 2008


Location: Penn Chamber, Three Rivers House

NOTICE AND REVISED AGENDA

For a meeting to be held in the Penn Chamber, Three Rivers House, Rickmansworth, on Thursday, 14 August 2008 at 7.30pm.

Members of the Committee:-

Councillors:-

Richard Laval (Chairman)

Chris Lloyd

 

Graham Denman

Peter Ray

 

Geoffrey Dunne

Sarah Nelmes (Vice-Chairman)

 

Francis Durham

Ralph Sangster

 

Paul Goggins

 

David Gardner, Director of Corporate Resources and Governance
6 August 2008
 

The Committee welcomes contributions from members of the public to its discussion on agenda items.  Contributions will be limited to one person speaking for and one against each item for not more than three minutes. Please note that, in the event of registering your interest to speak on an agenda item but not taking up that right because the item is deferred, you will automatically be given the right to speak on that item at the next meeting of the Committee.  Details of the procedure and the list for registering the wish to speak will be available for a short period before the meeting.

1.

APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE

 

 

2.

MINUTES

 

 

 

To confirm as a correct record the Minutes of the meeting held on 12 June 2008 (circulated separately to Members of the Committee).

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3.

NOTICE OF OTHER BUSINESS

 

 

 

Items of other business notified under Council Procedural Rule 31 to be announced, together with the special circumstances which justify their consideration as a matter of urgency.  The Chairman to rule on the admission of such items.

 

 

4.

DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST

 

 

 

To receive any declarations of interest.

 

 

 

POLICY

 

 

 

SCRUTINY

 

 

5.

MANAGEMENT OF GARAGES

 

 

 

This report advises the Committee on the progress being made in connection with managing the garage portfolio post transfer of the housing stock to Thrive Homes.

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6.

FINANCIAL POSITION STATEMENT & BUDGET MONITORING REPORT – JUNE (MONTH 3)

 

 

 

This report gives an update of the three-year medium-term financial plan and the position on the current year’s budget for the period ending on 29 June 2008  (circulated separately).

 

 

7.

BUDGET VARIATIONS

 

 

 

This report provides information on variations to the budgets as a result of the out-turn figures.

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8.

MONITORING OF INVESTMENTS

 

 

 

This report provides the Committee with information it requested at its last meeting.

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WORK PROGRAMME

 

 

9.

RESOURCES POLICY AND SCRUTINY COMMITTEE WORK PROGRAMME

 

 

 

To review and make necessary changes to the Policy and Scrutiny Committee’s work programme.


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10.

OTHER BUSINESS – if approved under Item 3 above.

 

 

11.

EXCLUSION OF PRESS AND PUBLIC

 

 

 

“that under Section 100A of the Local Government Act 1972 the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the following item of business on the grounds that it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined under paragraph 3 of Part I of Schedule 12A to the Act. It has been decided by the Council that in all the circumstances, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.”

 

 

 

(Note: If other confidential business is approved under Item 3, it will also be necessary to specify the class of exempt or confidential information in the additional item(s).

 

 

1.

PROPOSED SALE OF LAND ADJACENT TO 1 ASHLEYS, MILL END

 

 

 

To consider whether to sell the freehold interest in the land adjacent to 1 Ashleys, Mill End.

 

 

2.

OTHER BUSINESS – if approved under Item 3 above.