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Agenda, decisions and minutes
Venue: Council Chamber, Muriel Matters House, Breeds Place, Hastings, East Sussex, TN34 3UY
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Items No. Item Apologies for Absence
Minutes:
None.
Declaration of Interests
Minutes:
Councillor
Minute
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Chowney
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Personal – owns an electric vehicle
Minutes of Last Meeting PDF 284 KB
Additional documents:
Minutes:
RESOLVED – that the minutes of the Cabinet meeting held on 8th June 2020 be approved as a true record.
RESOLVED – that the minutes of the Cabinet meeting held on 6th July 2020 be approved as a true record.
Annual Treasury Management Outturn Report 2019/2020 PDF 888 KB
Minutes:
The Assistant Director, Financial Services and Revenues, presented a report on the Treasury Management activities and performance of the last financial year.
The Council is required by regulations issued under the Local Government Act 2003 to produce an annual treasury management review of activities and the actual prudential and treasury indicators for 2019/20. The report meets the requirements of both the CIPFA Code of Practice on Treasury Management, (the Code), and the CIPFA Prudential Code for Capital Finance in Local Authorities, (the Prudential Code).
The Assistant Director reported that the council’s investments and debt were properly managed and the strategy worked well in response to the covid-19 crisis. There were no cash flow shortages and the council has been able to access its cash as and when required. Therefore, there are no recommendations to amend the strategy for 2020/2021.
New borrowing in the last financial year was in the region of £9.4 million and return on investments was just over 1%. A further mid-year report will be presented to cabinet and full council regarding the current financial year.
The Leader of the Council thanked the Assistant Director, Cllr Chowney and the Audit Committee for their work on the Treasury Management Strategy.
Councillor Chowney proposed approval of the recommendations, seconded by Councillor Fitzgerald.
RESOLVED (unanimously):
Cabinet consider the report – no recommendations are being made to amend the current Treasury Management Strategy as a result of this review.
Reasons for the decision:
To ensure that members are fully aware of the activities undertaken in the last financial year, that Codes of Practice have been complied with and that the Council's strategy has been effective in 2019-20.
Under the Code adopted the Full Council are required to consider the report and any recommendations made.
Additional electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure in Town Centre car parks PDF 425 KB
Decision:
1. To allocate up to £35,000 for the purchase and installation of new EV charge points in Priory Street and Carlisle Underground car parks from the renewable energy capital budget within the capital programme. This is in addition to £15,000 funding, provisionally approved by the Town Board, as part of its Accelerated Fund proposal to the government.
2. That delegated authority be given to the Assistant Director of Environment and Place, in consultation with the Chief Finance Officer and the Lead Councillor for Natural Environment and Leisure, to appoint and instruct contractors to install new EV charge points by 31st March 2021.
Minutes:
The Assistant Director, Environment and Place, presented a report to set out the case for installing new electric vehicle (EV) charge points for Priory Street and Carlisle underground car parks.
The report requests approval for funding of up to £35,000 from the Renewable Energy Capital Programme. This is in addition to the £15,000 funding requested from the Town Board Accelerator Fund programme.
The Accelerator Fund application has been provisionally approved by the Town Board EDG.
In early March 2020 the Charity Committee allocated funding to replace the single EV unit at Pelham with 3 new EV charge points. The council, using its own funds, also agreed to replace the faulty EV unit at Marina Car Park with another 3 new units. There is also a newly installed ‘private’ charger at Morrisons Supermarket.
In proposing approval of the recommendations Councillor Evans urged East Sussex County Council to take advantage of central government funding to invest in on-street charging infrastructure in Hastings.
Councillor Evans proposed approval of the recommendations, seconded by Councillor Rogers.
RESOLVED (unanimously):
1. To allocate up to £35,000 for the purchase and installation of new EV charge points in Priory Street and Carlisle Underground car parks from the renewable energy capital budget within the capital programme. This is in addition to £15,000 funding, provisionally approved by the Town Board, as part of its Accelerated Fund proposal to the government.
2. That delegated authority be given to the Assistant Director of Environment and Place, in consultation with the Chief Finance Officer and the Lead Councillor for Natural Environment and Leisure, to appoint and instruct contractors to install new EV charge points by 31st March 2021.
Reasons for the decision:
1. The investment in and expansion of Electric Vehicle (EV) infrastructure, has been highlighted as an important element of the draft economic recovery plans for the borough and county.
2. Currently, the town centre area has only three publicly accessible EV charging points, one at Pelham Place car park; and two at Morrisons super market.
3. The Council has committed to installing 15 public charging points by the end of this financial year, in support of delivering its climate emergency commitments to make Hastings carbon neutral by 2030. This investment will support and enable residents, businesses and visitors to travel to the town centre, with the knowledge and confidence that they will be able to charge their electric vehicle. Such investment will support the transition to low carbon vehicles and help to meet the towns climate emergency action plan and improve local air quality.
(The Chair declared the meeting closed at 6.25pm)
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