Agenda and minutes

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In accordance with the Code of Conduct adopted by the City and County of Swansea, the following interests were declared:

1)              Councillor E J King declared a Personal & Prejudicial Interest in Minute 107 “Sustainable Swansea - Fit for the Future: Budget Proposals 2019/20 - 2022/23” and withdrew from the meeting prior to its consideration.

The Leader of Council made no announcements.

Questions must relate to matters on the open part of the Agenda of the meeting and will be dealt with in a 10 minute period.

A number of questions were asked relating to Minute 107 “Sustainable Swansea - Fit for the Future: Budget Proposals 2019/20 - 2022/23”.

The Leader of the Council responded.

No questions were asked.

* Call In Procedure - Urgency: This decision is exempt from the Authority’s Call In Procedure as “either the Head of Paid Service, the Section 151 Officer or the Monitoring Officer certifies that any delay likely to be caused by the Call In Procedure could seriously prejudice the Council or the Public Interest including failure to comply with Statutory requirements”.

Call In Procedure - Urgency: This decision is exempt from the Authority’s Call In Procedure as “either the Head of Paid Service, the Section 151 Officer or the Monitoring Officer certifies that any delay likely to be caused by the Call In Procedure could seriously prejudice the Council or the Public Interest including failure to comply with Statutory requirements”.

The Cabinet Member for Economy & Strategy submitted a report which sought consideration of the budget proposals 2019/20 to 2022/23 as part of the Council’s Budget Strategy Sustainable Swansea – fit for the future.

Resolved that:

1)              The Budget proposals summarised in the report and detailed in Appendix A and Appendix C be approved as the basis of consultation;

2)              The updated budget future forecast be adopted as the starting planning premise for the new medium term financial plan, which will be considered by Council on 28 February 2019;

3)              The approach to consultation and engagement with staff, trade unions, residents, partners and other interested parties set out in Section 7 of this report of the report be agreed;

4)       A report on the outcome of the consultation and final budget proposals be received by Cabinet at its meeting on 14 February 2019.