Agenda, decisions and minutes

Venue: Council Chamber, County Hall, Mold CH7 6NA

Contact: Tracy Waters 01352 702331  Email: tracy.waters@flintshire.gov.uk

Items
No. Item

1.

Appointment of Chairman

Nominations will be sought for a Chairman for the meeting.

Decision:

That Councillor Ron Hampson be appointed as Chairman for the meeting.

Minutes:

Nominations were sought for a Chair for the meeting.  A nomination for Councillor Ron Hampson was supported by the Committee.

 

RESOLVED:

 

That Councillor Ron Hampson be appointed as Chairman for the meeting.

2.

Declarations of Interest (Including Whipping Declarations)

Decision:

No declarations of interest were made.

Minutes:

No declarations of interest were made.

3.

Joint Housing and Social & Health Care Budget Consultation for 2014/15 pdf icon PDF 26 KB

Decision:

That the presentation be noted.

Minutes:

The Chairman welcomed the contributors to the meeting.

 

The Head of Finance explained that an overview of the budget would be provided for each Overview & Scrutiny Committee with the budget proposals for the specific area covered by each Committee detailed at the meetings.  An information pack including background papers had been made available prior to the meeting.

 

The main features of the presentation were:-

·              National Context and Local Impact

·              Budget Overview

·              How did the budget gap reduce?

·              Organisational Redesign & Change

                        -  Organisational Redesign: Structure and Corporate Operating Model

                        -  Organisational Redesign: Workforce

·              Corporate VFM & Functional VFM

·              Detailed proposals for this joint Committee

·              Housing Services

                        -  Inflation

                        -  Efficiencies

                        -  Prior Years Decisions

·              Social Care

            -  Inflation

                     -  Pressures / Investments

                        -  Efficiencies

                        -  Prior Years Decisions

·              Ongoing Work to finalise budget

·              Next Steps

 

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.

4.

Members of the public and press in attendance

Minutes:

            There was one member of the press in attendance.

Presentation slides pdf icon PDF 104 KB

Appendix 1 to minutes - Q&A pdf icon PDF 41 KB