Public reports can be viewed individually from the SJVG meeting page on the council’s website.

Separate packs for each company, containing all the reports for that company, are sent to the SJVG members and their support officers and to those attending on behalf of that company.

This agenda shows the approximate time when the SJVG will consider reports from each company.

If the SJVG wishes to exclude the press and the public from the meeting during consideration of any of the items on the exempt from publication part of the agenda, it will be necessary for the SJVG to pass a resolution in accordance with the provisions of Paragraph 4(2)(b) of the Local Authorities (Executive Arrangements) (Access to Information) (England) Regulations 2012 on the grounds that their presence could involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as described in specific paragraphs of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972.

The SJVG may maintain the exemption if and so long as, in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.

The agenda item text indicates which documents are available to the public and which are private.

Public reports in this section are available on the website under each agenda to download individually but are not included in an agenda pack.

Items unrelated to an individual company or companies for consideration by the Group.

The agenda item text indicates which documents are available to the public and which are private.

Public reports in this section are available on the website under each agenda to download individually but are not included in an agenda pack.

The Head of Law and Governance and Head of Financial Services have provided commentaries on reports relating to ODS.

Publication of the commentaries to follow the publication of the agenda.

The Finance and Performance Panel will meet on 4 December 2024. The following report is expected, together with any other recommendations from that meeting:

·       ODS – ODSTL Business Plan

Publication of the Finance and Performance Panel’s recommendations to the SJVG will be published following the publication of the agenda.

Report of: ODS Group Board.

Summary and Recommendations

Purpose of report: To recommend a dividend for the trading period 2023/24; to give an update as to 2024/25 service provision and trading; to review a refreshed DRAFT ODSTL Business Plan for the period 2025/26 to 2028/29.

Recommendation(s): That the Shareholder and Joint Venture Group resolves:

1.    To note confirmation of 23/24 close of accounts

2.    To delegate to the Leader the decision to declare a dividend of £1.9m for the financial year 2023/24 from ODSL once the item has been on the forward plan for the required 28 days in advance.

3.    To note the Board have determined that the ODSTL earnings will retained in the balance sheet (and therefore no dividend it proposed from ODSTL) to continue building the business in support of the refreshed ODSTL business plan.

4.    To note the period 6 trading position to date.

5.    To note and provide comments on the refreshed draft ODSTL Business Plan for the period 2025/26 to 2028/29, which will be brought for approval in April 2025.

Recommendation: to approve the public and private minutes of the Shareholder and Joint Venture Group meeting on 06 November 2024 as a true and correct record.