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Draft 2018-19 Budget

Meeting: 30/01/2018 - Environment and Community Services Policy Development and Scrutiny Committee (Item 48)

48 DRAFT 2018/19 BUDGET pdf icon PDF 255 KB

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Minutes:

Report FSD18010

 

Members considered the Portfolio Holder’s Draft 2018/19 Budget incorporating the full year effect of savings agreed as part of the 2017/18 Council Tax Report and any further savings approved during the year resulting in reductions in the Council’s medium term “budget gap”.

 

Executive requested that each PDS Committee consider the proposed initial draft budget savings and cost pressures for their Portfolio with the views of each PDS Committee reported back to the Executive’s next meeting when recommendations were expected to be made to Council on 2018/19 Council Tax levels. There continued to be outstanding issues and areas of uncertainty for the Draft 2018/19 Budget and any further updates would be included in the Council Tax report to Executive.

 

In supporting the draft budget, reference was made to an increasing number of properties in the borough - the level now rising on average by about 1000 properties annually. The annual additional cost of collection (refuse, recycling and food waste) and waste disposal for the new properties amounts to approximately £134k to the waste budget. Although this represented a growth item for the budget, Council tax revenue was also received for the properties and the waste budget (set centrally each year) reflected waste and recycling collection costs.

 

RESOLVED that:

 

(1)  the update on the financial forecast for 2018/19 to 2021/22 be noted;

 

(2)  the initial draft 2018/19 Budget be noted as a basis for setting the 2018/19 Budget; and

 

(3)  the Committee’s comments on the initial draft 2018/19 Budget be provided for the Executive to consider at their meeting on

7th February 2018.