Agenda item

Revenue Budgets 2019/20

Report of the Town Clerk, Chamberlain and Comptroller and City Solicitor.

Minutes:

The Committee considered a joint report of the Town Clerk, the Chamberlain and the Comptroller and City Solicitor which sought approval of the provisional revenue budget for 2019/20.

 

In response to a discussion on the correct process for the approval of budgets, the Town Clerk explained that the relevant service committees receive the budgets for subsequent approval on to the next stage, i.e. the Finance Committee, which makes a final recommendation to the Court.

 

In response to a Member’s query on unidentified savings as mentioned within the report before Members, the Town Clerk explained that the organisation would need to look at ways to make savings in order to run more efficiently. The Comptroller and City Solicitor added that next year, the Comptroller and City Solicitor’s Department would operate a trading account for legal services.

 

A Member commented on the employee costs and queried the increase behind some of those figures. In response, the Comptroller and City Solicitor advised there were a number of people who had received the annual increment in their pay, the Director of Human Resources added that the job grades were budgeted at the mid-point of the scale and for those who exceeded this point, additional funding for this payment was then sought.

 

RESOLVED – That:

 

a)    the Committee having critically reviewed the provisional 2019/20 revenue budget was satisfied that it reflects the Committee’s objectives;

b)    the Committee note the unidentified savings lines for Town Clerk’s Budgets of £311,000 and £360,000 for the Comptrollers and City Solicitor’s Budgets;

c)    the Committee approve the budget for submission to the Finance Committee and

d)    the Committee authorise the Chamberlain to revise these budgets to reflect any further implications arising from the Service Based Reviews and other corporate efficiency projects.

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