Issue - meetings

(a)     That the committee, having considered the Revenue Budget Monitoring 2017/18 (Month 4) report, has no specific matters which it wishes to be noted and reported verbally to the Cabinet.

(b)     That the committee, having considered the Capital Programme 2017/18 (Month 4) report, has no specific matters which it wishes to be noted and reported verbally to the Cabinet.

The Corporate Finance Manager introduced the report which provided Members with the Revenue Budget Monitoring 2017/18 (Month 4) Report and the Capital Programme 2017/18 (Month 4) Report. 

            Councillor Patrick Heesom referred to the projected underspend in Domiciliary Care and asked what the budget was in the first place as this area was critically under pressure. The Corporate Finance Manager responded to clarify this was the realignment of the overspends and underspends in social care budgets.

            Councillor Richard Jones referred to the Planning and Environment projected planning fee income shortfall.  He asked how many were predicted and was there background information on these. The Corporate Finance Manager indicated that he would provide the information Councillor Jones outside the meeting.

Councillor Richard Jones asked why the efficiency targets set were so high and whether it would be better to identify an achievable budget of 90%.  The Corporate Finance Manager responded that if this were so, then the shortfall of 10% would have to be found from somewhere else.

Councillor Patrick Heesom referred to Public Libraries & Art, Culture and Events and to the variation for the library service and asked what the view of Corporate Finance Manager was with regard to this.            The Corporate Finance Manager responded to say it was on track with minor underspends of £0.006m.

The Capital Report was introduced by the Corporate Finance Manager and summarised changes made to the Capital Programme 2017/18 since this was set in February 2017 to the end of month 4 (July 2017).

RESOLVED:

(a)     That the committee, having considered the Revenue Budget Monitoring 2017/18 (Month 4) report, has no specific matters which it wishes to be noted and reported verbally to the Cabinet.

(b)     That the committee, having considered the Capital Programme 2017/18 (Month 4) report, has no specific matters which it wishes to be noted and reported verbally to the Cabinet.