Issue - meetings

The committee is requested to recommend that Cabinet approves the requests totalling £120,800 for budgets to be carried forward in 2017-18.

The committee considered the report in the agenda (copy attached to the official minutes).

Mr Cooper presented the report, advising that the requests for carry forward had been scrutinised and supported by the Chief Executive and the Head of Finance and Governance.

The committee made the following comments and received answers to questions as follows:

·             £50,000 had been approved for Chichester Contract Services and £18,000 spent to date however only £31,000 was being carried forward. This was due to rounding.

·             The Manhood Peninsular Project Officer post had been extended by 6 months to 30 September 2017 however the parishes had been asked to commit to extend the post to the end of the year. Mrs Purnell, Cabinet Member for Housing and Environment Services, responded that although parishes had funded this there was still a shortfall. There was no further allocation from the council for this post at this stage. Mrs Belenger advised that it was up to Heads of Service, working with members, to consider what was required and to consider any additional funding in their approved budgets to allow that post to run on.

RECOMMENDED TO CABINET

That the requests for budgets to be carried forward to 2017-18 totalling £120,800 be approved.