Issue - meetings

FSD 21026

The Chairman informed Members that this report had already gone to the Executive and was primarily for information only.

A Member referred to the section where it mentioned that some funding had been transferred from the Highways budget to the Public Protection budget post funding and he wondered what that meant. It was explained that sometimes services jointly funded a post. In this case a post had been jointly funded with Highways to the value of £16k. The post in the end got delivered to something else and so the funding was recalled. 

A Member referred to the notes in the report that indicated that there was an underlying staffing underspend of £129k due to a number of in year vacancies. She wondered what those vacancies were in respect of. The positions were listed as follows:

·  Food Service Vacancies

·  Vacancies in the Trading Standards Team

·  ASB and Nuisance Vacancies

·  Recruitment to the post of Head of Service formerly held by Tony Baldock

RESOLVED that the Outturn report for 2020/21 be noted.