Issue - meetings

Cabinet Member: Finance & Property

Forward Plan Ref: 2010/078

Contact: Lorna Baxter, Assistant Head of Finance Tel: (01865) 323971

Report by Assistant Chief Executive & Chief Finance Officer (CA7).

This report is the second in the series for reports on the Service & Resource Planning process for 2011/12 - 2015/16 and will culminate in the Council setting a budget requirement for the authority and an amount of Council Tax for 2011/12 in February 2011.

This report provides an update on information available pertaining to the Business Strategy; the budget for 2011/12 and the medium term; and proposes a process for Service & Resource Planning for 2011/12 including a timetable of events. 

The Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to:

(a)               approve the Service and Resource Planning process for 2011/12, noting the integration of Capital and the Asset Strategy;

(b)              endorse the distribution and phasing of the total savings targets between Directorates and support services in paragraph 28;

(c)               note the decision of Council on 14 September 2010 on the date for the budget setting meeting of Council.

Cabinet considered the second in the series of reports (CA7) on the Service & Resource Planning process for 2011/12 - 2015/16 that will culminate in the Council setting a budget requirement for the authority and an amount of Council Tax for 2011/12 in February 2011.

Councillor Armitage queried recommendation (c) commenting that no decision had been made at Council but it had been subsequently dealt with.

RESOLVED:                        to:

(a)               approve the Service and Resource Planning process for 2011/12, noting the integration of Capital and the Asset Strategy;

(b)               endorse the distribution and phasing of the total savings targets between Directorates and support services in paragraph 28;

(c)               note the decision on the date for the budget setting meeting of Council.