Issue - meetings

Petition regarding the budget

Meeting: 05/09/2019 - Council (Item 5)

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Minutes:

Members noted the Cabinet response to the petition as detailed in the report.


Meeting: 25/07/2019 - Cabinet (Item 577)

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Minutes:

Cabinet considered their proposed response to a budget petition regarding potential expenditure relating to office accommodation and community asset transfers. Members were advised that a £3m provision was included in the 2019/20 capital programme to ensure the Council’s office accommodation remained suitable for use and as cost effective as possible.

 

That budget provision was for capital expenditure the acquisition or enhancement of the council’s assets, as opposed to revenue expenditure which related to day-to-day service expenditure.

 

It should be noted that there were a number of legal restrictions in the way in which both the revenue and capital budgets could be and were financed. As such, the capital funding proposed to fund the £3m investment could only be used to fund capital expenditure and could not have been used to reduce the savings required, including service reductions, in order to balance the revenue budget.

 

Councillor David Saunders proposed, Councillor Ashbee seconded and Cabinet noted the concerns, and confirmed that the provisions in the budget report remained valid.


Meeting: 28/03/2019 - Council (Item 5)

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Minutes:

Mr Finnegan was unavailable to present the petition, however Members noted that an e-petition containing 37 valid signatures had been received and the petition prayer read as follows:

 

“We the undersigned petition the Council to reconsider two points of the Budget set by the Council ”

 

In accordance with the Council’s Petition Scheme, the petition was referred to Cabinet without debate for report back to the Council within three ordinary meetings.