Issue - meetings

Budget process 2010/2011

Meeting: 07/12/2009 - Corporate Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Item 23)

Budget Process 2010/2011

To consider setting up a  Budget Task and Finish Group of 7 Members on a 4:1:1:1 basis.

Minutes:

The Committee considered putting in place, arrangements to manage Overview and Scrutiny involvement in the budget setting process for 2010/2011. The Committee had received a briefing on the budget consultation process to date, at an informal meeting prior to the meeting, at which it had been suggested that a panel of members drawn from all Overview and Scrutiny Committees should develop a programme after the Christmas holidays.

 

RESOLVED – That a Budget Consultation group be set up on a 4:1:1:1 basis consisting of the following members; the group be authorised to agree its own terms of reference with a view to advising the Borough Treasurer and Cabinet on the process to involve Overview and Scrutiny in the 2010/2011 budget setting process:

 

Councillors

 

A R Thwaite – Chairman Corporate Scrutiny (Con)

G Walton- Chairman Environment and Prosperity (Con)

R Westwood – Chairman Children and Families (Con)

S Wilkinson – Vice – Chairman Sustainable Communities (Con)

G Baxendale – Vice –Chairman Health and Adult Social Care (Con)

J Narraway - Vice –Chairman Corporate Scrutiny (LD)

S  Conquest -  Corporate Scrutiny (Lab)

P Edwards - Corporate Scrutiny (Ind)