Issue - meetings

(Cabinet Member with Special Responsibility Councillor Roger Mace)

Joint report of the Corporate Director (Finance and Performance) and Head of Financial Services.  

(Cabinet Member with Special Responsibility Councillor Roger Mace)

The Corporate Director (Finance and Performance) and Head of Financial Services submitted a joint report that updated Cabinet on the latest position with regard to the 2008/9 Budget and Policy Framework documents, in particular in respect of the Corporate Plan and the Revenue Budget and Capital Programme.  Supplementary documentation was also circulated at the meeting. 

The options, options analysis, including risk assessment, were set out in the report as follows: 

Option 1 - to note the progress to date in respect of reviewing and updating the budget and each of the policy framework documents. 

Option 2 - to agree an alternative course of action in respect of these.

The preferred officer option was option 1. 

It was moved by Councillor Roger Mace and seconded by Councillor Jon Barry: -

“That the recommendations, as set out in the report, be approved, subject to the following additional wording being included: -

·               and Cabinet considers submitting a response to the Government on the settlement.” 

After hearing the debate Councillor Mace, as proposer, withdrew the additional wording that had been proposed, with the permission of his seconder, Councillor Barry and the meeting. 

Members then voted as follows.

Resolved Unanimously:

Policy Framework

(1)     That Cabinet notes the latest position in respect of the documents included in the Policy Framework, as outlined in the report. 

(2)     That Cabinet note the arrangements in place to prepare the draft 2008/9 Corporate Plan. 

Budget

(3)     That Cabinet note that the draft Revenue Budget and Capital Programme will be reported to the January 2008 Cabinet meeting. 

Officers responsible for effecting the decision:

Corporate Director (Finance and Performance).

Head of Financial Services. 

Reason for making the decision:

The agreed budget and policy framework timetable requires Cabinet to agree its preferred priorities, set out in the Corporate Plan, and aligned budget proposals for further consultation prior to consideration by full Council in February. The report highlighted the progress made to date.