Issue - meetings

Matter for Decision

The Officer’s report presented for the Environmental Services and City Centre Portfolio:

       i.          A summary of actual income and expenditure compared to the final budget for 2017/18 (outturn position).

     ii.          Revenue and capital budget variances with explanations.

   iii.          Specific requests to carry forward funding available from budget underspends into 2018/19.

Decision of Executive Councillor for Environmental Services and City Centre

Approved carry forward requests:

       i.          Totalling £33,330 revenue funding from 2017/18 to 2018/19, as detailed in Appendix C of the Officer’s report.

     ii.          Carry forward requests of £1,065k capital resources from 2017/18 to 2018/19 to fund rephased net capital spending, as detailed in Appendix D of the Officer’s report.

Reason for the Decision

As set out in the Officer’s report.

Any Alternative Options Considered and Rejected

Not applicable.

Scrutiny Considerations

The Committee received a report from the Principal Accountant (Services).

In response to Councilor Smart’s question the Principal Accountant (Services) said that funding was listed under ‘rephased spend’ in Appendix D (P26) of the Officer’s report as matters sometimes stopped projects being delivered on time eg provision of vehicles by manufacturers. There were good reasons why carry forwards occurred.

Councillor Gillespie expressed regret that diesel refuse vehicles had been purchased instead of electric ones. The Executive Councillor said electric vehicles were desirable (in principle) but untested and double the price of diesel ones. The Council did not have the funds to purchase electric vehicles. It had offered to test an electric vehicle (new to the market) on behalf of the manufacturer.

The Committee unanimously resolved to endorse the recommendations.

The Executive Councillor approved the recommendations.

Conflicts of Interest Declared by the Executive Councillor (and any Dispensations Granted)

No conflicts of interest were declared by the Executive Councillor.