Issue - meetings

To note the verbal report.

The Chief Executive introduced the verbal item on the Council Fund Budget 2018/19 Stage 2. 

                        Stage 1 of the Council Fund Budget had been presented to County Council the previous week where efficiencies of £3.1m and a consultation response for Welsh Government (WG) had been agreed.

                        An all Member workshop had been arranged later that day where Stage 2 budget options would be discussed.  Following that, a meeting of Group Leaders was scheduled to take place on 28^th November prior to a report being submitted to County Council on 12^th December.  The Chancellor of the Exchequer’s final Statement would be delivered the following day.

                        Councillor Shotton said political meetings had been arranged with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and the Cabinet Secretary for Local Government.

            A petition had been started which called on the Chancellor to end austerity and had been signed by hundreds across the county.  That petition would be presented to Parliament by Flintshire’s MP’s, Mark Tami and David Hanson.

RESOLVED:

That the verbal report be received.