Issue - meetings
Medium Term Financial Strategy: Council Fund Revenue Budget 2020/21
Meeting: 09/12/2019 - Organisational Change Overview & Scrutiny Committee (Item 31)
31 Medium Term Financial Strategy: Council Fund Revenue Budget 2020/21 
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Additional documents:
- Appendix 1 - Summary of Pressures, item 31
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- Appendix 2 - Summary of Efficiencies, item 31
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Decision:
That the Committee endorses the Organisational Change portfolio cost pressures recommended for inclusion in the budget for 2020/21.
Minutes:
The Strategic Finance Manager introduced the report to advise Members of the latest budget position for 2020/21 and any specific proposals for the Portfolio. She advised that the report sets out the current financial forecast and the projected ‘gap’ in the Council’s budget funding requirement for 2020/21. She reported that the full gap ahead of the budget solutions outlined in the report and the Welsh Government (WG) Budget for 2020/21 stands at £16.2m. A summary of the forecast and the changes to the forecast position previously reported was set out in the report.
The Strategic Finance Manager provided background information and explained that the report presented all of the proposed budget efficiencies and costs pressures to be included in the budget for 2020/21. The report highlighted the specific efficiencies and costs pressures for services previously structured within Organisational Change for consideration by the Committee as part of its portfolio responsibilities. In conclusion the Strategic Finance Manager said this was an interim budget closure report pending the completion of ongoing work on corporate finance options and resolution of the WG budget.
Councillor Tudor Jones asked why the Council would be contributing towards the Aura and Newydd’s pay award. The Finance Manager Community Services explained that Aura and Newydd had their own pay structures and staff received a 1% uplift in pay the previous year but there was a recognition that in order to allow them to be a fair employer when it came to pay, additional contributions were needed from the Council.
The Chairman thanked the Strategic Finance Manager and Officers for their hard work to reduce the budget gap, through a combination of corporate and portfolio efficiencies and income, to a forecast of £8.0–£8.5m.
The recommendation was proposed by Councillor David Wisinger and seconded by Councillor Janet Axworthy.
RESOLVED:
That the Committee endorses the Organisational Change portfolio cost pressures recommended for inclusion in the budget for 2020/21.