Decision details
Financial Forecast and Stage Two of the Budget 2018/19
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Purpose:
To consider the feedback from CROSC on the Stage Two of the Budget 2018/19 and to make recommendations to Council.
Decision:
As detailed in the recommendations, including:
Cabinet received and accepted in full the 6 draft recommendations from Corporate Resources Overview and Scrutiny Committee (listed below). Cabinet noted and recommended Stage 2 of the budget to County Council with the proviso that the specific proposals on schools budgets and car parking charges would be reported to the respective Overview and Scrutiny Committees in January for full review, for them to report back before any final agreement on those two areas.
Corporate Resources Overview and Scrutiny Recommendations:
1. That having considered the Stage 2 budget options, the report and proposals be noted;
2. That the remaining stages of the budget process and timescales be noted;
3. That the letter to the Cabinet Secretaries for Finance and for Local Government and Public services and the Resilience Statements be circulated to all Members;
4. That the full detail of the assessments of the risks, impacts and consequences of all of the budget proposals be made available for review in January;
5. That the Environment and Education and Youth Overview and Scrutiny Committees be convened in January to review in detail the car parking charges and school budget proposals respectively, including the risks and consequences of the proposals, prior to any final decision being taken; and
6. That a report reviewing the process for the setting of the annual budget process be prepared for the Constitution & Democratic Services Committee at its meeting on 31st January 2018.
Report author: Gary Ferguson
Publication date: 13/12/2017
Date of decision: 12/12/2017
Decided at meeting: 12/12/2017 - Cabinet
Effective from: 21/12/2017
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