Meeting documents

            Meeting: Cabinet (County Hall, Durham - Committee Room 2 - 29/01/2009 10:00:00 AM)

                  Item: A0 Record of Executive Decisions

         

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The following is a record of the decisions taken at the meeting of CABINET on THURSDAY 29 JANUARY 2009.

These decisions will come into force and may be implemented from 10 FEBRUARY 2009, unless the Overview and Scrutiny Management Committee or its Committees object to any such decision and call it in.

Budget 2009/10 incorporating the Medium Term Financial Plan 2008/09 - 2010/11
[Key Decision Corp/TR/01/08

Summary
The Cabinet considered a Report of the Corporate Director, Resources providing information to enable Cabinet to make recommendations to the meeting of the County Council on the 27th February about the 2009/10 Budget.

Decision
The Cabinet agreed that the following recommendations be adopted for inclusion in the report to the County Council on 27 February 2009 with regard to the County Council Budget -

1 That the recommendations be approved as set out in:-
· Section B Priorities, Section C - Consultation Reponses, Section D · Financial Reserves,
· Sections Section H - Capital Budget, Section I - Prudential Code and · Section L - Council Tax Base and Estimated Collection Fund Surplus/Deficit
· Section M Risk and N. Section 25 Report

2 That the County Council be recommended to agree an average Council Tax increase of 2.94% (ranging from an increase of 4.75% to a reduction of 1%) and authorise incorporation into the Cabinet’s report appropriate recommendations to put this into effect.

3 That, as a consequence of adopting 2 above, it be noted the Budget gap is now £5.961m

4 That Section G - Service Investments and Service Savings be agreed subject to the following variations:

That the County Council be recommended to close the Budget gap by:

a)	Additional support recharged for Area Action Partnerships, reduced from Bid (£1.4m), saving	£1.200m
b)	In Adults Wellbeing and Health, assume that if necessary any double running costs will be met from the County Council contingency provision, saving	£0.200m
c)	In Children’s & Young People’s Services assume that the staffing for the 14-19 planning will not be in place soon enough to incur the total investment proposed, saving	£0.050m
d)	In Corporate Resources, removing the additional support to replacing the lost grant, saving	£0.053m
e)	In the calculation of the additional revenue cost of capital, assuming that the programme will be contained within existing levels of budget provision, saving	£1.000m
f)	That earmarked reserves and trading account profits from across the Council contribute the balance of	£3.458m

5 That the Corporate Director, Resources be authorised to make any proper accounting transactions that would be in the interests of the County Council in relation to the accounts for 2008/09.
Lesley Davies

Acting Director of Corporate Services

2 February 2009


Attachments

 Exec Decs 01.29.09.pdf