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FINANCE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

MINUTE of SPECIAL MEETING of the FINANCE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE held in the Town and County Hall, Forfar on Thursday 14 February 2002 at 3.00 pm.

Present: Councillors ALEX KING, ALISTAIR GRAY, IAN MACKINTOSH, BRIAN MILNE, PETER MURPHY, ROB MURRAY, ROBERT MYLES, PETER NIELD, BILL ROBERTON, RON SCRIMGEOUR and DAVID SELFRIDGE.

Apologies: Apologies for absence were intimated on behalf of Councillors BILL MIDDLETON and GLENNIS MIDDLETON.

Councillor KING, Convener, in the Chair.

1. PROVISIONAL REVENUE AND CAPITAL BUDGETS 2002/2003

There were submitted (a) Report No 198/02 by the Director of Finance, being a background report apprising members of the Provisional Revenue Budget submissions of each Council Department and of the departmental budget cuts considered necessary to allow the Council to deliver a Revenue Budget within the resources expected to be available and also setting out the Provisional Composite Capital Budget submissions for those Departments with capital programme expenditure; (b) Report No 199/02 by the Director of Finance, being the Provisional Revenue Budget Volume, together with a commentary by each Head of Department; (c) Report No 200/02 by the Director of Finance being the Departmental Budget Cuts Proposals Volume; and (d) Report No 201/02 by the Director of Finance, being the Provisional Capital Budget 2002/2003.

Councillor King then reported on the outcome of the meeting of the Central Consultative Committee held earlier this day at which the representatives of the trade unions and teachers associations had welcomed the avoidance of compulsory redundancies but had expressed concern on the impact on jobs and quality of service delivery arising from delays and non filling of vacancies. It had been agreed that it would be helpful if the trade unions could join local authorities and the professional associations in alerting Central Government to the danger of continuous cutting of core budgets.

Councillors Mackintosh, Murphy, Myles and Nield indicated that they would not be supporting this budget, but rather than move an amendment at this meeting, reserved their position to the special meeting of the Council.

The Committee agreed:

  1. to note the views of the Trade Union representatives on the Central Consultative Committee arising from their meeting of earlier this day;
  2. to note the Provisional Base Revenue Budget submissions for 2002/2003 of Miscellaneous Other Services, Finance (General and Revenues) and Information Technology as contained in pages 89, 103 to 105 and 114 and 115 respectively of the Provisional Revenue Budget Volume (Report No 199/02);
  3. to note the budget cuts proposals of the Finance (General and Revenues) and Information Technology Departments as contained in pages 35 to 37 and 43 and 44 respectively of the Departmental Budget Cuts Proposals Volume (Report No 200/02);
  4. to approve the budget cuts for Finance (General and Revenues) totalling £43,000, and the budget cuts for Information Technology totalling £17,000;
  5. to approve the revised budget net expenditure for the Miscellaneous Other Services, Finance (General and Revenues) and Information Technology resulting from 2 to 4 above and recommend accordingly to the Council at the Council Tax setting meeting;
  6. to note and agree to submit to the Council at the Council Tax setting meeting that the provision for Pay Inflation (including Teaching staff) be £3.570 million; that the provision for Surplus Local Tax Income be £650,000 and that the provision for Capital Financing Costs (Loan Charges) be £9.394 million (all of which are shown on page 3 of the Provisional Revenue Budget Volume ­ Report 199/02);
  7. to note and approve the Common Good budgets for 2002/2003 as detailed in pages 120 to 125 of the Provisional Revenue Budget Volume (Report 199/02);
  8. to approve the Miscellaneous Provisional Capital Budget for 2002/03 as detailed in pages 20 and 21 of the Provisional Capital Budget Volume (Report No 201/02);
  9. to note the Provisional Base Revenue Budget submissions (excluding Loan Charges) for 2002/03 of the three Joint Boards for Tayside, namely Valuation (Assessors) £680,000, Fire £3.736 million and Police £15.506 million as shown on page 119 of the Provisional Revenue Budget Volume (Report No 199/02);
  10. to note that these finalised budget submissions for 2002/03 of the Tayside Valuation, Tayside Fire and Tayside Police Joint Boards were agreed at meetings of the respective Boards on 28 January 2002;
  11. that these finalised budget requisitions for the Joint Boards be submitted to the Council at the Council Tax setting meeting;
  12. to note the Provisional Base Revenue Budget submission for 2002/03 of the Tayside Contracts Joint Arrangement being £210,000 (Surplus) as shown on page 119 of the Provisional Revenue Budget Volume (Report No 199/02);
  13. to note that the 2002/03 budget estimate for the Tayside Contracts Joint Arrangement has yet to be formally approved by the Joint Committee; and
  14. that this provisional budget position for the Tayside Contracts Joint Arrangement be submitted to the Council at the Council Tax setting meeting.
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