Issue - meetings

That the presentation be noted.

The Chairman welcomed the contributors to the meeting.

            The Chief Executive and Corporate Finance Manager gave a presentation on the Local Government Provisional Settlement 2016/17 which had been given at Cabinet on 15^th December, 2015.  The presentation covered the following areas:-

·         Settlement Context

·         Settlement Headlines

·         Flintshire Position in the Settlement

·         Known Impacts for Flintshire

·         Ongoing Local Budget Work

·         Ongoing National Budget Work

·         Timescale for Phasing the Budget

The Leader of the Council commented on specific grants, particularly the Outcome Agreement Grant, and the continued lobbying of Welsh Government (WG) to allow Local Authorities greater freedom and flexibility to decide how these grants were spent.      

            The Chief Executive, Chief Officer (Governance) and Corporate Finance Manager gave a detailed presentation which covered the following areas:-

·         Purpose of today’s meeting

·         Corporate Overview

·         Corporate Finance Efficiency Proposals 2016/17

·         Corporate Finance Local Pressures and Inflation

·         Inflation

·         Service Business Plan Proposals

·         Budget Closure Strategy

·         National Budget Timetable

The comments and questions which were raised by Members of the Committee on the presentations, together with the responses given, are detailed in Appendix 1 (attached).

RESOLVED:

That the presentation be noted.