Issue - meetings

(a)       That the Forward Work Programme as submitted, be approved with the following amendment;

·         An item on Capital out-turn 2017/18 to be included for the July meeting.

(b)       That the Democratic Services Manager, in consultation with the Chair and Vice-Chair, be authorised to vary the Forward Work Programme between meetings, should this be necessary; and

(c)       That the monthly budget monitoring report should include a commentary section on high-risk items within the budget, so that progress on them are immediately drawn to the attention of the Cabinet and the Committee.

The Democratic Services Manager presented the current Forward Work Programme for consideration.

The Corporate Finance Manager advised that the Capital Out-turn report for 2017/18 would need to be added for the July meeting.

Due to the number of nature of items scheduled for the July meeting, it was agreed that an additional meeting may need to be arranged.

Councillor Jones asked that a separate report to highlight specific high-risk items within the budget be scheduled every other month.  The Corporate Finance Manager explained that this was addressed as part of the Revenue Budget Monitoring reports.  Councillor Attridge suggested that a specific section on all high-risk issues could be included in the monthly monitoring reports.  The Democratic Services Manager pointed out that this would also benefit in highlighting those issues to Cabinet.  This approach was agreed by the Committee.

RESOLVED:

(a)       That the Forward Work Programme as submitted, be approved with the following amendment;

·         An item on Capital out-turn 2017/18 to be included for the July meeting.

(b)       That the Democratic Services Manager, in consultation with the Chair and Vice-Chair, be authorised to vary the Forward Work Programme between meetings, should this be necessary; and

(c)       That the monthly budget monitoring report should include a commentary section on high-risk items within the budget, so that progress on them are immediately drawn to the attention of the Cabinet and the Committee.