Agenda item

To receive the report of the Chamberlain and Director of Open Spaces.

The Committee noted the comparison between the revenue outturn for the services overseen by the Committee in 2013/14 and the final agreed budget for the year. In total, there was a worse than budget position of £46,000 for the services overseen by the Committee compared with the final agreed budget for the year.

Members noted that the Director’s better than budget position of £16,000 (Local Risk) had been aggregated with budget variations on services overseen by other committees, which produced an overall better than budget position of £232,000 (Local Risk) across all Open Spaces. It was proposed to carry forward £217,000 of

this underspend. These requests would be considered by the Chamberlain in

consultation with the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Resource

Allocation Sub Committee.

Officers informed Members that the Nursery was a trading account which although formed part of the Director of Open Spaces Local Risk any surplus or deficits are transferred to and from reserve respectively. The City Surveyor’s £71,000 overspend was mainly due to the re-phasing of the Additional Works programme.