Issue - meetings

Budget Consultation Group

 

 

Meeting: 12/10/2010 - Corporate Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Item 61)

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To consider a report of the Borough Solicitor.

Minutes:

A report was received to update the Committee on the work of the Budget Consultation Group.

 

In view of the very tight timescales, it was suggested to the Committee that they advise Cabinet in November 2010 of the preliminary views of the Corporate Scrutiny Committee on the budget challenge process, based upon the following principles as approved by the consultation group:

 

  1. That, Budgets should be disaggregated to fit in with the Council’s Overview and Scrutiny arrangements to allow each Committee an opportunity to have a meaningful input into the budget setting process.

 

  1. That Cabinet be requested to allow each of the 5 Overview and Scrutiny Committees to have an opportunity to have an input in setting budget priorities for the 2011/2012 budget.

 

  1. That a cycle of dedicated O&S meetings be held in early January to formally comment on the draft budget.

 

 

RESOLVED –

 

a)     That the report be received and noted.

 

b)     That a report be submitted to Cabinet in November, outlining the Committee’s suggestion in relation to the budget scrutiny process 2011/2012 as follows:

 

1.      That, Budgets should be disaggregated to fit in with the Council’s Overview and Scrutiny arrangements to allow each Committee an opportunity to have a meaningful input into the budget setting process.

 

2.      That Cabinet be requested to allow each of the 5 Overview and Scrutiny Committees to have an opportunity to have an input in setting budget priorities for the 2011/2012 budget.

 

3.      That a cycle of dedicated O&S meetings be held in early January to formally comment on the draft budget.