Agenda

Council - Thursday, 17 July 2025 7.00pm

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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Items
No. Item

1.

Apologies for absence

2.

Declarations of Disclosable Pecuniary Interests and Other Significant Interests pdf icon PDF 371 KB

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.

3.

Record of meeting pdf icon PDF 443 KB

To approve the record of the meetings held on 24 April, 14 May and 26 June 2025.

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4.

Mayor's announcements

5.

Leader's announcements

6.

Petitions

7.

Public questions pdf icon PDF 93 KB

This report sets out the public questions received for this meeting. 

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8.

Motions pdf icon PDF 88 KB

This report sets out the motions received for this meeting.

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9.

Leader's Report pdf icon PDF 90 KB

10.

Members' questions pdf icon PDF 96 KB

 This report sets out the Members’ questions received for this meeting.

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11.

MedPay Review: Outline of the Approach to Senior Officer Progression of Pay pdf icon PDF 166 KB

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).

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12.

Amendments to the Capital Programme pdf icon PDF 138 KB

This report requests Council approval for amendments to the Capital Programme as recommended by Cabinet on 3 June 2025.

13.

Review of the Constitution pdf icon PDF 212 KB

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.

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14.

Report on Overview and Scrutiny Activity pdf icon PDF 112 KB

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.

15.

The Disposal of Unit 1, Cherry Trees Court, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire pdf icon PDF 129 KB

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.

16.

Use of Urgency Provisions pdf icon PDF 99 KB

This report provides details of a recent usage of urgency provisions contained within the Constitution.

17.

Exclusion of the Press and Public pdf icon PDF 129 KB

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.

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