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Disclosures of Personal and Prejudicial Interests. Minutes: In accordance with the Code of
Conduct adopted by the City and County of Swansea, no interests were declared. |
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Leader of the Council's Announcements. Minutes: The Leader made no
announcements. |
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Public Question Time. Minutes: A number of questions were
asked by Members of the Public relating to the budget. The relevant Cabinet Member responded
accordingly. No questions required a
written response. |
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Councillors' Question Time. Minutes: No questions were asked. |
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Pre-decision Scrutiny Feedback on the Annual Budget (verbal). Minutes: Councillor C A Holley, Convenor of the Service Improvement and Finance Scrutiny Performance Panel presented the views of the Panel in relation to the budget proposals. |
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Revenue and Capital Budget Monitoring 3rd Quarter 2016/17. PDF 128 KB Additional documents:
Minutes: The Cabinet Member for Finance and Delivery submitted a
report setting out the financial position of the Council relating to the
2016-2017 Revenue and Capital Budgets, including the delivery of budget savings. RESOLVED that: 1) The comments and variations detailed in the report and the actions in hand to address these be noted. |
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Medium Term Financial Planning 2018/19 - 2020/21. PDF 333 KB Minutes: The Section 151 Officer submitted a report which set out the rationale and purpose of the Medium Term Financial Plan and detailed the major funding assumptions for the period and purposed a strategy to maintain a balanced budget.
RESOLVED that: 1) The Medium Term Financial Plan 2018/19 to 2020/21 be recommended to Council as the basis for future service financial planning. |
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Revenue Budget 2017/18. PDF 1 MB Additional documents: Minutes: The Section 151 Officer submitted a report which set out the current position with regard to the Revenue Budget for 2017-2018. It detailed: ·
Financial
Monitoring 2016-2017; ·
The
Local Government Finance Settlement 2017-2018; ·
Budget
Forecast 2017-2018; ·
Specific
Saving Proposals; ·
Outcome
of Budget Consultation; ·
Staffing
Implications; ·
Reserves
and Contingency Fund Requirements; ·
The
Budget Requirement and Council Tax 2017-2018; ·
Summary
of funding proposals; ·
Risks
and uncertainties. The Leader of the
Council and the Transformation and Performance Cabinet Member proposed the
following amendments. Statutory
changes - advised by the S151 officer
RESOLVED
that: 1) The outcome of the formal consultation exercise be noted and changes to the Budget Proposals in Appendix D of the report as amended above be agreed, together with the position regarding delegated budgets as set out in section 4.10 of the report; 2) The current Resource Gap identified in Section 4.5 of the report be noted, in line with the potential actions identified in Sections 9 and 10 of the report agreed as course of action to achieve a balanced Revenue Budget for 2016-2017; 3) In addition to a review of current savings proposals Cabinet: a) Reviewed and Approved the Reserve Transfers recommended in the report; b) Agreed a level of Council Tax for 2017-2018 to be recommended to Council. 4) Subject to the changes identified and listed above, Cabinet recommends to Council for approval: a) A Revenue Budget for 2017-2018; b) A Budget Requirement and Council Tax levy for 2017-2018. |
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Capital Budget & Programme 2017/18 - 2020/21. PDF 133 KB Additional documents:
Minutes: The Section 151 Officer submitted a report which proposed a revised Capital Budget for 2016-2017 and a Capital Budget for 2017-2018 to 2020-2021. The Leader of the
Council proposed the following additions to the Capital Programme for 2017-2018.
RESOLVED that: 1) The revised Capital Budget for 2016-2017 and a Capital Budget for 2017-2018 – 2020-2021 as detailed in Appendices A, B, C, D and E of the report as amended be recommended to Council for approval. |
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Housing Revenue Account (HRA) Revenue Budget 2017/18. PDF 104 KB Minutes: The Section 151
Officer and Director of Place submitted a joint report which proposed a Revenue
Budget for 2017-2018 and a rent increase for properties within the Housing
Revenue Account (HRA). RESOLVED that the following budget proposals be recommended to Council for
approval: 1) Rents
be increased in line with the
Welsh Government rent setting policy as detailed in Section 3 of the report; 2) Fees,
charges and allowances be approved as
outlined in Section 3 of the report; 3) The
Revenue Budget Proposals as detailed in Section 3 of the report. |
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Housing Revenue Account - Capital Budget and Programme 2017/18 - 2020/21. PDF 125 KB Minutes: The Section 151
Officer and Director of Place submitted a joint report which proposed a revised
Capital Budget for 2016-2017 and a Capital Budget for 2017-2018 – 2020-2021. RESOLVED that the following budget proposals be recommended to Council for
approval: 1) The
transfers between schemes and the revised budgets for schemes in 2016-2017 be approved; 2) The
budget proposals for 2017-2018 – 2020-2021 be approved; 3) Where
individual schemes as shown in Appendix B of the report are programmed over the
4 year period, these are committed and approved and that their financial
implications for funding over subsequent years also be approved. |