Agenda item

(Cabinet Members with Special Responsibility Councillors Blamire and

Bryning)

Report of the Chief Executive

(Cabinet Members with Special Responsibility Councillors Blamire and Bryning)

Cabinet received a report from the Chief Executive and were requested to agree the process for reviewing the Council’s Budget and Policy Framework for 2014/15.

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

Thefollowingoptions wereavailable to Cabinet.

(1)                     Approvetheproposalsandtimetablesetoutinthereportforreviewingand revisingthe Council’sBudgetandPolicyFramework.

(2)                     Approve  an  amended  version  of  the  proposals,  drawing  on  any  specific issues thatCabinet have.

OfficerPreferredOption

AssumingthatCabinethadnootherspecificissuestoaddress,Option1 was the Officerpreferred option, as it setouta structuredapproach forCabinettoreview the existingBudgetandPolicyFramework,toidentifysavings/efficiencyoptions,andfor it to bring  forward  its  budget  and  policy  framework  proposals  for  2014/15  andbeyond, within the statutory timescales.  As usual, theconsiderationand managementofrisk would forma keypartoftheprocess.

Councillor Blamire proposed, seconded by Councillor Bryning:-

“(1)      That the recommendation, as set out in the report, be approved.”

Councillors then voted:-

Resolved unanimously:

(1)        That the report be noted and the outline budget and planning timetable, appended to the report, be approved.

Officers responsible for effecting the decision:

Chief Executive

Chief Officer (Resources)

Reasons for making the decision:

The plans and strategies outlined in the report together make up the Council’s Budget and Policy framework.  The annual review of the framework would ensure that the Council’s plans and strategies were kept up to date and compliant with the criteria for assessing their impact on local communities.