Agenda item

Report of the Chamberlain.

Consideration was given to a report of the Chamberlain which provided the Committee with information regarding the current balance of the Finance Committee Contingency Funds for the current year.

The report also informed the Committee of a request from the City Surveyor for £80,000 funding from the City’s Cash Contingency to meet the cost of the Assistant Property Facilities Manager posts for the period January to March 2016, pending completion of the Facilities Management Review. The Committee was advised that the Property Investment Board had been consulted on this request and had supported it.

A Member commented that the request for funding from the Committee’s Contingency should be supported, but only on the basis that the outcomes of the Facilities Management Review would be completed by the end of March 2015.

RESOLVED – That the Committee:

a)    notes the report; and

b)    agrees to allocate £80,000 to the City Surveyor's budget from the Finance Committee's City's Cash contingency to meet the cost of the Assistant Property Facilities Manager posts for the period January to March 2016 pending completion of the Facilities Management review.