Issue - meetings

This report presents the second monitoring information for the Authority as a whole for the financial year 2011/12 to the end of September 2011. The report also includes a number of budget transfer requests for both revenue and capital that require Cabinet agreement or are reported for information purposes as prescribed by the Budget Management Scheme.

Councillor David Bellotti moved the recommendations in the report.

Councillor Paul Crossley seconded the proposal.

Councillor David Dixon congratulated the officers in his portfolio area for having achieved a £402K underspend.

On a motion from Councillor David Bellotti, seconded by Councillor Paul Crossley, it was

RESOLVED (unanimously)

(1) To ASK Strategic Directors to continue to work towards managing within budget in the current year for their respective service areas, and to manage below budget where possible by not committing unnecessary expenditure, through tight budgetary control;

(2) To NOTE the revenue budget position as shown in the report;

(3) To NOTE the capital expenditure position in the financial year to the end of September and the year-end projections detailed in the report;

(4) To AGREE the revenue virements listed for approval in the report;

(5) To NOTE the changes in the capital programme listed in the report.