Agenda item

Joint report of the Chamberlain and Director of Community and Children’s Services

For Decision

This report provided Members with the annual submission of the revenue and capital budgets overseen by the Barbican Residential Committee.  Members were very pleased with the clarity of the new format.  Whilst the Committee’s   comments would be fed back to the Chamberlain, some Members challenged the lack of scrutiny because previous reports had asked them to ‘examine the budget critically’.

The following items were raised:

1. Customer/Client receipts, which were not rents or service charges were very few and the wording could be amended. 

2. Some Members felt that the term ‘Garchey’ was misleading to anyone outside of the Barbican Estate and suggest, therefore, that it be referred to as the waste disposal system.  Members noted that there were 3 full time members of staff employed to maintain the system but at one time it had been 14, so these individuals were very cost-effective.

3. Members would receive a further explanation of the £1,000 transport cost.

4. Water-proofing would not be a service charge matter.

RESOLVED, that:

1.            The Budget be approved for submission to the Finance Committee.  

2.            The draft Capital Budget be approved.

3.            The Chamberlain be authorised to revise these budgets to allow for further implications arising from departmental reorganisations and other reviews, corporate projects, changes to the additional works programme and implications arising from carbon trading allowances.