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)              Councillors R Francis-Davies, L S Gibbard, A Pugh, R V Smith and A H Stevens declared a Personal Interest in Minute 112 “Budget Proposals 2023/24-2026/27”.

The Leader of Council made no announcements.

Questions can be submitted in writing to Democratic Services democracy@swansea.gov.uk up until noon on the working day prior to the meeting. Written questions take precedence.  Public may attend and ask questions in person if time allows. Questions must relate to items on the open part of the agenda and will be dealt within a 10 minute period.

No questions were asked.

Councillor C A Holley asked several questions relating to Minute 112 “Budget Proposals 2023/24-2026/27”.

The Leader of the Council responded.

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, Finance & Strategy submitted a report that sought consideration of budget proposals for 2023/2024 to 2026/2027 as part of the Council’s existing Budget Strategy.

Resolved that:

1)              The Budget proposals summarised in the report and detailed in Appendix B of the report 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 2 March 2023.

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

4)              A report on the outcome of the consultation and final budget proposals be received by Cabinet on 16 February 2023.