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Good evening, everybody. Welcome to this evening's with Monday the 17th of June 2024, meeting of the resources and delivering value scrutiny board. First item, apologies for absence. Chairman, apologies for absence have been received from Councillor Shasha Bata. [BLANKAUDIO] Any others? No, I see none. Second item, have we any declarations for members of pecuniary or conflicts of interest? [BLANKAUDIO] I see none. [BLANKAUDIO] Third item, are there any questions and deputations? Chairman, no questions or deputations have been received. Thank you. [BLANKAUDIO] The next item is to consider the minutes on pages 5 to 14 of the meeting of the 20th of May. [BLANKAUDIO] Take it members have had the opportunity to digest these. [BLANKAUDIO] Just one question from me. I believe I was promised some information about the Town Centre Steering Group has minuted on page 11. Or 7, depending upon which number you look at. That's not been forthcoming, so would it be possible to get a response on the makeup of that Town Centre Steering Group, please? [BLANKAUDIO] Advise this will be followed up. Thank you. [BLANKAUDIO] So any other items? No, I see none. [BLANKAUDIO] These minutes are approved. [BLANKAUDIO] So next item is the resource and delivering value scrutiny board work program. [BLANKAUDIO] Yeah, main change to this is the workforce report has been scheduled for the December meeting. [BLANKAUDIO] Thank you. [BLANKAUDIO] So that brings us to the, if there are no further comments, substantive business. [BLANKAUDIO] Which before that we need to go for item six exclusion of the present public. [BLANKAUDIO] Sorry, there's a item in item seven, which implies that something needs to go on the work program. Has that been added? [BLANKAUDIO] I'm sorry, we can't start this yet until we exclude the press. Yeah, I'm not going to be specific, but there's an item. Yeah, okay, let's exclude the press first. Okay. Follow the order. Okay. [BLANKAUDIO] Well, Councillor Kaye, do you have something about other things on this yet? Are we on the work program at the moment? Yeah. We'd finished the work program, but- No, I've got a number of points to raise on the work program. All right. I noticed that the combined authority visits are now on the work program. Are we planning, the new mayor didn't attend the Councillor's Day last week. I wonder if it would be worthwhile asking him to address the council, so that we might understand what plans he may have for Solihull. [BLANKAUDIO] It's not something that's been considered as yet. [BLANKAUDIO] If I could put that forward for consideration then. There's the quarterly financial performance report. Yeah, if I could just answer the first one. Sorry, yeah. We will consider that and see what the detail is. There isn't enough detail in that at the moment, but we will do that. But it doesn't mean that we're going to include the item until we've scoped it properly. Otherwise, we'll end up with a huge plan that doesn't have the direction that we want it to have. Officers, any? Because I think you're referring about the potential for the mayor coming to full council rather than scrutiny. I think that's a question probably better directed at the leader, to have that conversation rather than through the chair of scrutiny, if I'm brutally honest. So it might be conversation with Councillor Courts. Right, thank you. We've got the quarterly financial performance update reports in. But the rationale refers to fiscal performance. I wonder if there's a confusion between financial and fiscal, or whether, in fact, we'll be looking at tax matters. I think it's just typing that you mean to financial. [BLANKAUDIO] And I think what Councillor Thomas was referring to was the workforce report at the end on the potential reports. I believe that when we discussed this at the last meeting, we intended to have the workforce report included in the work program. [BLANKAUDIO] Just for clarity, I wasn't referring to that, but- Yeah, I appreciate that. So that needs to be corrected, that Councillor Thomas wasn't referring to that. Also, this is a piece of work that's scheduled in December, and will be always in December. That's the plan at the moment. Thank you, Councillor Kelly. So we are having the workforce report, yeah. In December, that's what we said. Yeah, good. Thanks very much. Those are all my points. Thank you. [BLANKAUDIO] Right, I'd like to state the meeting is not open to the public during discussion of the following item, because the report contains exempt information as defined in Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972.