Agenda

To approve as a correct record the Minutes of the meeting held on 12 November 2025 and the Special Meeting on 18 November 2025.

To note the following minutes of the Overview and Scrutiny and Select Committees:

Community Select Committee – 11 November 2025

To seek approval of the Council Tax Base for 2026/27.

To update Members on the proposals for the Housing Revenue Account (HRA) budgets and rent setting for 2026/27, to be considered by Council on 21 January 2026.

To consider approval to revoke the existing taxi rank located at the Lister Hospital, Coreys Mill Lane, Stevenage and to adopt a new taxi rank, 35m from the existing rank on Coreys Mill Lane, in accordance with Section 63 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976.

To receive a report highlighting the Council’s performance across key priorities and projects for Quarter two 2025/26 and providing an update on progress against current strategic risks. 

To receive the Digital Strategy 2025/26-2027/28 which covers the development of online services ensuring the Council delivers improvements to help residents access digital services quickly and easily.

To consider any Part 1 business accepted by the Chair as urgent.

To consider the following motions –

1.  That under Section 100(A) of the Local Government Act 1972, the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the following items of business on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as described in paragraphs1 – 7 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act as amended by Local Government (Access to Information) (Variation) Order 2006.

2.  That Members consider the reasons for the following reports being in Part II and determine whether or not maintaining the exemption from disclosure of the information contained therein outweighs the public interest in disclosure.

To approve as a correct record the Part II Minutes of the meeting held on 12 November and the Special Meeting on 18 November 2025.

To consider a report relating to the Leisure Management Contract.

To seek approval to procure and award a new contract for the provision of fire door installations, servicing, and remedial works to flat front entrances and communal fire doors across the Council’s housing stock.

To consider any Part II business accepted by the Chair as urgent.