Councillor Pete Smith - Deputy Leader made announcements including:

·       as a Council we have received the Bronze Wellbeing at Work Award. The wellbeing of our workforce is important to us, as we continue to deliver a range of services to our diverse communities and work in partnership with others in these ever changing times

·       we are committed as an Employer to ensuring that the wellbeing of our employees is a priority and this journey will continue.

·       the library service has been doing really well throughout this pandemic, again issuing just under 2,000 e-books and e-Audiobooks in the last week. The services being offered through Facebook are proving really popular with Rhymetimes and Storytimes reaching just under 80,000.

·       launched the new “Select and Collect” service. In this first week we issued 339 customers with a selection of books, the feedback on this service had been overwhelmingly positive

Councillor Mark Lowry - Cabinet Member for Finance made announcements including:

·       public toilets had been opened and provided additional ones on Barbican and the Hoe. West Hoe toilets completely rebuilt. Works progressing well and forecast to complete on 6 August 2020.

Councillor Jemima Laing - Cabinet Member for Children and Young People made announcements including:

·       thanks to children’s services – want to thank foster carers and those who are on their way to be foster carers. Would like to remind anyone who has been thinking of becoming a foster carer at foster for Plymouth. Brief update on adolescent support team – commenced work in late March 2020. Work with 18 young people and families to prevent them coming into care. Programme designed to provide short term crisis support. Focus on providing support to under 5’s and those with send with other associated harm.

Councillor Kate Taylor - Cabinet Member for Health and Adult Social Care made announcements including:

·       bid for new bungalows at Douglas House site in Efford. Will be used for older children and adults with complex needs. They will be a short term base government set out post Brexit immigration plan. Care workers won’t be able to ask for the visa and won’t be classed as skilled. This is a care visa in name only. We will do all we can to oppose that;

Councillor Chris Penberthy - Cabinet Member for Housing and Co-operative Development made announcements including:

·       cooperative unleashed from the grassroots. Funded to do the work from cooperative council’s innovation network. One of their special interest groups.

·       put more wealth in communities. Proud Plymouth national leader in this field. Thank Anna Peachy, Jane Hunt and Patrick Bowes. This council distributes funds on Crowd Funder UK. We introduced it the last time we were in administration – won national ad internal awards. Pledge nearly half million pounds of developer contributions. Full review of city change fund – through review been able to raise max we can pledge to a project from £20,000 to £30,000. Introducing a new climate emergency bonus of £15,000 to help climate emergency project. From today onwards. Live event will be organised.

Councillor Sue Dann - Cabinet Member for Environment and Street Scene made announcements including:

·       we are putting money into community organisations for climate change, shows as a city we are working behind the scenes.

Councillor Mark Coker - Cabinet Member for Strategic Planning and Infrastructure made announcements including:

·       workplace travel packages – £1m for local business to come to us for grants to make sustainable changes to how their workplace operates. I would encourage everyone to look at our website. We did get 100% when asked. This allows us to bid for even more on the second round.

·       Transport team doing amazing things. Pass on our congratulations to them.

Councillor Sally Haydon - Cabinet Member for Customer Focus and Community Safety made announcements including:

·       we have carried out a number of wedding ceremonies. Almost 1^st authority to offered this service on the first day they were allowed. 385 birth registrations, backlog cleared by the end of July 2020 as planned. Open public consultation on public pace protection orders.

·       We are looking for people who can’t be bothered to put their rubbish in the bin.

·       On 9 July, PCC received notification we had been successful for anti-social and criminal behaviours in 2 city hotspots. Barbican and Hoe, granted full amount of bid.