Venue: St George's Centre, Pembroke, Chatham Maritime, Chatham ME4 4UH. View directions
Contact: Wayne Hemingway, Head of Democratic Services
Note: Members of the public will be asked to park at Canterbury Christ Church University, off North Road (blue badge holders can still park on site at the St. George’s Centre). Upon entering Pembroke from the roundabout, please bear left into North Road and take the first left into the car park, and then turn right at the T junction. Please proceed straight ahead - parking will only be available in the two sets of bays which can be found immediately after driving past the exit signs on your right and will be denoted by either red or yellow spots.
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Apologies for absence |
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Declarations of Disclosable Pecuniary Interests and Other Significant Interests Members are invited to disclose any Disclosable Pecuniary Interests or Other Significant Interests in accordance with the Member Code of Conduct. Guidance on this is set out in agenda item 2. |
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To approve the record of the meetings held on 24 April, 14 May and 26 June 2025. Additional documents: |
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Mayor's announcements |
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Leader's announcements |
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Petitions |
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This report sets out the public questions received for this meeting. Additional documents: |
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This report sets out the motions received for this meeting. Additional documents: |
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This report sets out the Members’ questions received for this meeting. Additional documents: |
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MedPay Review: Outline of the Approach to Senior Officer Progression of Pay This report focuses on introducing the MedPay Review principles for senior managers (Strategic Service Managers and Service Managers), ensuring that the senior officer pay scales are adjusted in align with the rest of the organisation to enable progression through the pay ranges, based on a career progression framework (to be developed). Additional documents: |
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Amendments to the Capital Programme This report requests Council approval for amendments to the Capital Programme as recommended by Cabinet on 3 June 2025. |
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Review of the Constitution A number of measures to reduce the length of full Council meetings have been trialled since the Council elections held in May 2023. This report recommends that those measures that have been trialled be made permanent by changes to the Council procedure rules and that further options, considered at the cross-party governance meetings be adopted too.
The report also asks the Council to agree a change of Membership to the Health and Wellbeing Board to add Voluntary and Community Sector representation. Additional documents: |
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Report on Overview and Scrutiny Activity This report provides a summary of the work of the Council’s Overview and Scrutiny Committees since the last report to Council on 24 April 2025. |
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The Disposal of Unit 1, Cherry Trees Court, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire This report advises the Council of the sale of Unit 1, Cherry Trees Court, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire. This follows inclusion of the property on a list of non-operational properties declared surplus by the Cabinet on 29 October 2024.
This report is submitted to the Council for information in line with constitutional requirements. |
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Use of Urgency Provisions This report provides details of a recent usage of urgency provisions contained within the Constitution. |
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Exclusion of the Press and Public This report summarises the content of an exempt appendix, which, in the opinion of the proper officer, will contain exempt information within one of the categories in Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972. It is a matter for the Council to determine whether the press and public should be excluded from the meeting during consideration of this document. Additional documents:
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