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Quarter 2 Budget Monitoring Report

Meeting: 12/11/2019 - Cabinet (Item 105)

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Decision:

1.    Consider the budget monitoring position for each of the above accounts;

 

RESOLVED TO RECOMMEND:

 

2. The approval of the revised capital programme to move £3.1m slippage identified at Quarter 2 into financial year 2020/21 as detailed in Appendix C;

 

3. the approval of a supplementary revenue budget funded from reserves:

 

·         Supplementary budget of £30k in the Garage service, funded from the Invest to Save reserve, to fund a specialist project manager to lead on improvements to the garage letting process

 

4. the approval of supplementary capital budgets required to deliver several service changes as set out below:

 

·         A capital budget of £25k to fund payment kiosks in the Customer Services Unit.

 

 

·         Additional capital budget of £400k to deliver the Bunkers Farm project.

 

·         Supplementary budget of £161k in the HRA capital budget Strategic Acquisitions, to fund buy-back of a leasehold property.

 

5. Approve capital virements to reallocate budget from existing leisure budgets to fund Berkhamsted Leisure Centre Improvements Works:

 

·         Create a budget of £276k for Berkhamsted Leisure Centre Improvements Works by reallocating budget from:

a) Hemel Sports Centre roof £100k

b) Berkhamsted Sports Centre Building Management System £150k

c) Replace

 

Minutes:

1.    Consider the budget monitoring position for each of the above accounts;

 

RESOLVED TO RECOMMEND:

 

2. The approval of the revised capital programme to move £3.1m slippage identified at Quarter 2 into financial year 2020/21 as detailed in Appendix C;

 

3. the approval of a supplementary revenue budget funded from reserves:

 

·         Supplementary budget of £30k in the Garage service, funded from the Invest to Save reserve, to fund a specialist project manager to lead on improvements to the garage letting process

 

4. the approval of supplementary capital budgets required to deliver several service changes as set out below:

 

·         A capital budget of £25k to fund payment kiosks in the Customer Services Unit.

 

 

·         Additional capital budget of £400k to deliver the Bunkers Farm project.

 

·         Supplementary budget of £161k in the HRA capital budget Strategic Acquisitions, to fund buy-back of a leasehold property.

 

5. Approve capital virements to reallocate budget from existing leisure budgets to fund Berkhamsted Leisure Centre Improvements Works:

 

·         Create a budget of £276k for Berkhamsted Leisure Centre Improvements Works by reallocating budget from:

a) Hemel Sports Centre roof £100k

b) Berkhamsted Sports Centre Building Management System £150k

c) Replace

 

Corporate objectives

 

Delivering an efficient and modern council

 

Deputy Section 151 Officer

Comments included within the body of this report.

Monitoring Officer

No comments to add to the report.

 

 

Advice

 

Councillor Elliot introduced the item which highlights the council’s current financial position. The report includes the recruitment of a specialist project manager for improvements to the garage lettings project. There is also a list of virements for transfers between budgets.

 

J Deane added that overall the end of year forecast is a pressure of £120k. This is a relatively healthy figure and efforts will continue to bring this in line by the end of the financial year.

 

Councillor Birnie referred to page 18, paragraph 5.2 and asked when the garage project report could be expected.

 

Councillor Williams said it would be presented at the joint budget meeting in February.

 

Recommendations agreed.