Issue - decisions

Matter for Decision

The report presented a summary of the 2014/15 outturn position (actual income and expenditure) for services within the Strategy & Transformation Portfolio, compared to the final budget for the year.  The position for revenue and capital was reported and variances from budgets were highlighted, together with explanations.  Requests to carry forward funding arising from certain budget underspends into 2015/16 were identified.

Decision of the Leader

The Executive Councillor:

     i.        Agreed the carry forward requests, totalling £18,620 as detailed in Appendix C of the Officer’s report, to be recommended to Council for approval.

    ii.        Agreed to seek approval from Council to carry forward capital resources to fund rephased net capital spending of £23,000 from 2014/15 into 2015/16 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 Head of Finance regarding the 2014/15 outturn position.

The Committee sought clarification regarding underspends and asked if there were common threads.

In response to Members’ questions the Head of Finance stated that underspends were mainly staffing related and were linked to recruitment processes and unfilled vacancies.

The Committee resolved by 6 votes to 0 to endorse the recommendation.

The Executive Councillor approved the recommendations.