Agenda item

A report of the Chamberlain and the Director of Open Spaces (copy attached).

The Chamberlain introduced the Revenue Outturn 2012/13 for Open Spaces and City Gardens to the Committee, noting that there was an underspend in the local risk budget that had been amalgamated with other areas in the overall Open Spaces budget to produce a £39,000 negative figure. Furthermore it was noted that officers had agreed to provide an improved format for the report in future to provide more detail on areas of the Additional Works Programme (AWP).

The Director of Open Spaces concluded by noting that she had asked the Superintendent of Epping Forest to identify £39,000 of savings from the current year to address the shortfall.

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