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Items
No. Item

60.

Declarations of Interest

Members are asked to declare any Disclosable Pecuniary or Affected Interests in respect of any matter to be considered at this meeting.

 

Any Member with a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest in a matter should withdraw from the meeting when the matter is under consideration and should notify the Democratic Services Officer in attendance that they are withdrawing as they have such an interest. If the Disclosable Pecuniary Interest is not entered on the register of Members interests the Monitoring Officer must be notified of the interest within 28 days.

 

Any Member with an Affected Interest in a matter must disclose the interest to the meeting.  There is no requirement to withdraw from the meeting when the interest is only an affected interest, but the Monitoring Officer should be notified of the interest, if not previously notified of it, within 28 days of the meeting.

Minutes:

There were no declarations of interest.

61.

Minutes pdf icon PDF 132 KB

To consider and approve the minutes of the meeting of the Executive held on 23 January 2018.

 

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Minutes:

RESOLVED that the minutes of the meeting of the Executive on 23 January 2018 together with the accompanying decision records be confirmed as a correct record and signed by the Leader.

62.

Urgent Items of Business

Minutes:

There were no urgent items of business.

Executive Decisions and Decision Records: pdf icon PDF 74 KB

The Executive considered the following items. The decisions are recorded in the decision sheets attached to these minutes and summarised below.

63.

Capital Programme 2018/19-2020/21 pdf icon PDF 283 KB

To recommend the Capital Programme 2018/19 – 2020/21 to Council.

 

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Minutes:

The Executive Recommends to Council:

 

a)    General Fund capital funding of £58.221m for 2018/19 in respect of those schemes listed in Annexes A – E, including £30m previously approved by Council on 29 November 2017 for commercial property investments to be made available in the current financial year.

b)    The inclusion of an additional budget of £1m for Invest to Save schemes.

c)    The inclusion of £3.480m of expenditure to be funded from S106 as outlined in paragraph 5.23.

d)    That those schemes that attract external grant funding are included within the Capital Programme at the level of funding received.

1.            Agrees that capital schemes that require external funding can only proceed once the Council is certain of receiving the grant.

 

2.            Agrees that the decision to award the construction contract for the care home at Heathlands be delegated to the Director of Adult Social Care, Health and Housing in consultation with the Executive Member for Adults Services, Health and Housing is in order to be able to move quickly to commence the contract in view of the need to deliver the savings in care costs as quickly as possible as set out in paragraphs 5.17 to 5.20.

 

 

64.

General Fund Revenue Budget 2018/19 pdf icon PDF 373 KB

To recommend the General Fund Revenue Budget 2018/19 to Council.

 

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The Executive, in recommending to Council a budget and Council Tax level for 2018/19:

 

a.            Confirms the original budget proposals, subject to the revisions in section 8.3 and those decisions to be taken elsewhere on this agenda on the capital programme;

 

b.         Agrees the provision for inflation of £2.422m (section 8.2);

 

c.         Agrees the additional budget proposals as set out in Annexe A and Annexe D and in sections  6.2, 6.3, 6.5, 7.3 and 8.3;

 

d.         Agrees additional expenditure of £0.226m, for preventative activities relating to adults with mental health needs, to be funded from the additional Adults Social Care Support Grant (-£0.226m) included in the Final Local Government Finance Settlement for 2018/19.

 

e.         Agrees that the Council should fund the Schools budgets at the level set out in section 9.1 subject to any minor amendments made by the Executive Member for Children, Young People and Learning following the receipt of definitive funding allocations for Early Years and High Needs pupils;

 

f.          Includes a contingency of £2.500m (section 10.7), use of which is to be authorised by the Chief Executive in consultation with the Borough Treasurer in accordance with the delegations included in the Council’s constitution;

 

g.         Subject to the above recommendations, confirms the draft budget proposals;

 

h.         Approves the Net Revenue Budget before allowance for additional interest from any use of balances as set out in Annexe G;

 

i.          Agrees the contribution of £2.484m to be made from revenue balances (before additional interest from the use of balances) to support revenue expenditure;

 

j.          Recommends a 2.99% increase in the Council Tax for the Council’s services plus an additional 3% increase representing an Adult Social Care precept and that the Council Tax requirement, excluding Parish and Town Council precepts, be set as £57.345m;

 

k.         Recommends that the Council Tax for the Council’s services and that each Valuation Band is set as follows:

 

Band

Tax Level Relative    to Band D

        £

A

6/9

843.96

B

7/9

984.62

C

8/9

1,125.28

D

9/9

1,265.94

E

11/9

1,547.26

F

13/9

1,828.58

G

15/9

2,109.90

H

18/9

2,531.88

 

 

l.          Recommends that the Council approves the following indicators, limits, strategies and policies included in Annexe E:

 

·      The Prudential Indicators and Limits for 2018/19 to 2020/21 contained within Annexe E(i);

·      The Minimum Revenue Provision (MRP) Policy contained within Annexe E(ii);

·      The Treasury Management Strategy Statement, and the Treasury Prudential Indicators contained in Annexe E(iii);

·      The Authorised Limit Prudential Indicator in Annexe E(iii);

·      The Investment Strategy 2018/19 to 2020/21 and Treasury Management Limits on Activity contained in Annexe E(iv);

 

j.          Approves the virements relating to the 2017/18 budget as set out in Annexe H.

 

 

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