Decision details

Councillor Peter Wilson, Executive Member for Resources presented a report of the Chief Executive on the provisional revenue and capital outturn figures for 2016/17 which had been agreed at the Executive Cabinet meeting on 22 June 2017 and required Council approval to a number of recommendations.

The Leader of the Council commented on the sound financial management of the Council and referred to the overall underspend of £320,000 with a number of areas achieving better than expected income targets.

Councillor Peter Wilson, Executive Member for Resources proposed, Councillor Alistair Bradley, Executive Leader, seconded and it was RESOLVED - 

1.         That approval be given to the slippage requests and other transfers to reserves outlined in Appendix 2 of the report to finance expenditure on specific items or projects in 2017/18.

2.         That approval be given to the contribution of £49,000 from in-year revenue underspends to the Change Management Reserve to finance one-off redundancy and pension strain costs arising from transformation and shared service strategies. This will supplement the £200k budget set aside in 2017/18 to increase the reserve.

3.         That approval be given to the contribution of £49,000 from in-year revenue underspends to the Buildings Maintenance Reserve to finance one-off costs relating to office utilisation and transformational change.

4.         That approval be given to the financing of the 2016/17 capital programme to maximise the use of funding resources available to the Council.