Agenda and minutes

To confirm the minutes of a meeting of this Joint Committee held on 18^th September 2014.  

Resolved: That the minutes of the meeting of the Joint Committee held on 18^th September 2014 were agreed as a correct record. 

To receive any declarations of interests from Members.   

There were none. 

To be discussed. 

The next meeting of the Shared Revenues and Benefits Service Joint Committee would be arranged at a later date. 

To consider passing the following resolution:

“That the public be excluded from this meeting during consideration of the following item(s) of business on the grounds that there is likely to be a disclosure of exempt information which is described in the paragraph(s) of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972 which is specified against the heading(s) to each item, and that in all the circumstances of the case the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing it.”  

Resolved:That the public be excluded from this meeting during consideration of the following item of business on the grounds that there is likely to be a disclosure of exempt information which is described in Paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972, and that in all the circumstances of the case the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing it. 

Report to follow. 

The Assistant Director (Head of Revenues and Benefits – Shared Service) submitted a report providing the latest budget monitoring and the revised budget for 2014/15 for the Shared Service and to enable the Joint Committee to approve the 2015/16 budget. The Principal Accountant (Preston City Council) presented the report to Members. 

Resolved:That the Joint Committee:

(i) Notes the latest budget monitoring and the revised budget

     for 2014/15 for the Shared Service, as detailed in Appendix A of the report;

(ii) approves the budget for 2015/16 for the Shared Service, as detailed in Appendix B of the report; and

(iii) delegates to the S151 Officers of each Council (by agreement) to determine the cost sharing ratio for contributions to and from the overall Shared Service budget.