Meeting documents

SCC Scrutiny for Policies and Place Committee
Tuesday, 6th September, 2022 10.00 am

Venue: Luttrell Room, County Hall, Taunton, TA1 4DY

Items
No. Item

1.

Apologies for absence

Decision:

Minutes:

Apologies were received from : Cllr G Wren, Cllr E Hobbs, Cllr L Duddridge.

 

 

 

 

2.

Declarations of Interest

Details of all Members’ interests in District, Town and Parish Councils can be viewed on the Council Website at

County Councillors membership of Town, City, Parish or District Councils and this will be displayed in the meeting room (Where relevant).

 

The Statutory Register of Member’s Interests can be inspected via request to the Democratic Service Team.

 

Minutes:

Councillor Prior-Sankey declared an interest in agenda item 5 (Home to School Transport) – business interest of a family member.

 

3.

Minutes from the previous meeting held on 12 July 2022 pdf icon PDF 65 KB

  • View the decision for item 3.

The Committee is asked to confirm the minutes are accurate.

Decision:

Minutes:

The minutes of the meeting held on 12 July 2022 were approved and signed as a correct record.

 

4.

Public Question Time

The Chair will allow members of the public to ask a question or make a statement about any matter on the agenda for this meeting. These questions may be taken during the meeting, when the relevant agenda item is considered, at the Chair’s discretion.  

Minutes:

There were no Public Questions.

5.

Home to School Transport Policy pdf icon PDF 234 KB

To consider this presentation.

Decision:

Minutes:

The Committee received a presentation from the Council’s Strategic Manager for Access and Additional Learning Needs (ALN), Phil Curd and Service Manager for Transporting Somerset, John Perrett who presented information on the general duties of the service including statutory walking distances and an additional entitlement for low-income families; service demand  ...  view the full minutes text for item 5.

6.

Budget Monitoring Report - Month 4 (July) pdf icon PDF 621 KB

To consider this report.

Decision:

Minutes:

The Chair invited the Executive Lead Member for Finance and Human Resources, Councillor Liz Leyshon; Director of Finance & Governance and Section 151 Officer, Jason Vaughan; and Strategic Manager - Finance and Business Partnering, Christian Evans and to introduce and present the report.

Cllr Leyshon introduced the Month 4 monitoring report  ...  view the full minutes text for item 6.

7.

Scrutiny for Policies and Place Committee Work Programme pdf icon PDF 81 KB

To receive an update from the Governance Manager, Scrutiny and discuss any items for the work programme. To assist the discussion, attached are:

·         The Committee’s Forward Work Programme

·         Scrutiny for Policies and Environment Forward Work Programme

·         The Executive’s Forward Work Programme

Additional documents:

Decision:

Minutes:

Scrutiny Manager, Jamie Jackson notified the Committee of an Extraordinary Meeting of this Committee on Tuesday 20 September. The single item agenda will be published in due course.

 

A meeting of the Chair of the Scrutiny Place and Chair of Scrutiny Environment Committees will be held later this week to  ...  view the full minutes text for item 7.

8.

Temporary Labour Contract pdf icon PDF 314 KB

To consider the attached report.

 

In considering this item, it may be necessary for the Committee to pass a resolution for the exclusion of the Press and Public.

 

To consider passing the resolution under Section 12A of the Local Government Act 1972 that the press and public be excluded from the remainder of the meeting on the basis that if they were present during the business to be transacted, there would be a likelihood of disclosure to them of exempt information of the following description:

-       The amount of any expenditure to be incurred by the authority under any particular contract for the acquisition of property or the supply of good or services.

Decision:

Minutes:

It was agreed that under Section 12A of the Local Government Act 1972 that the press and public be excluded from the remainder of the meeting on the basis that if they were present during the business to be transacted, there would be a likelihood of disclosure to them of  ...  view the full minutes text for item 8.

9.

Any other urgent items of business

The Chair may raise any items of urgent business.

Minutes:

There were no other items of business.