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Exeter City Living Business Plan Progress Update

Meeting: 10/01/2023 - Executive (Item 6)

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To consider the report of the Chief Executive and Growth Director.

 

Decision:

Agreed:

 

RECOMMENDED that Council agree that the timeline for the submission of the Exeter City Living Business Plan 2023-24 be moved for Council consideration to the Executive meeting on 4th April 2023 and the Council meeting on 18th April 2023.

 

Reason for Decision: As set out in the report.

 

 

 

Minutes:

The Executive received the report which provided a progress update on the production and proposed timetable for Exeter City Living’s (ECL) Annual Business Plan 2023-24 and confirmed that the 2023-24 Business Plan would not be seeking any further new loans from the Council.

 

Particular reference was made to the Management Agreement which stated that the draft business plan must be prepared by November each year, ahead of the new Financial Year. One significant site was subject to the tender process and the cost information arising from the tender was still being assessed. The report sought Council approval to vary the Management Agreement to allow the Business Plan to be brought to Members in April 2023 to ensure it included appropriate information arising from the tender process.

 

The Leader advised that he had received questions in relation to the report from Councillor Jobson, and that he had provided written responses to the questions, which are appended to the minutes.

 

 

Councillor D. Moore, as an opposition group leader, spoke on this item. She welcomed the report and supported delaying the report to ensure accurate information was provided to Members. She enquired about the process of producing the Business Plan and whether it had been produced internally by Exeter City Living and would there be any cost to the Council for producing the Business Plan?

 

The Leader advised that he would provide a response to the question raised, which are appended to the minutes.

 

Members supported the recommendation to vary the Management Agreement to allow the business plan to be brought to Members in April 2023.

 

RECOMMENDED that Council agree that the timeline for the submission of the Exeter City Living Business Plan 2023-24 be moved for Council consideration to the Executive meeting on 4th April 2023 and the Council meeting on 18th April 2023.