Issue - meetings

The Cabinet is requested to consider the agenda report and its appendix and, as recommended by the Corporate Governance and Audit Committee, subject to any amendments agreed at its meeting on 29 March 2018, to make the following resolution:

That the requests for budgets to be carried forward to 2018-19 totalling £90,000, be approved.

RESOLVED BY THE CABINET

That the requests for budgets to be carried forward to 2018-2019 totalling £90,000, as recommended by the Corporate Governance and Audit Committee at its meeting on 29 March 2018, be approved.

The Cabinet received and considered the agenda report and its appendix which had been circulated in the agenda supplement.

This item was introduced by Mr Wilding.

Mr Ward was available to answer questions on this matter.

Mr Wilding commended for the Cabinet’s approval the schedule appended to the report with the four carry forward request items totalling over £90,000 for the 2018-2019 financial year. The requested items and the reasons for them were valid. The list had been filtered by several layers of management: (a) the budget managers who had generated the requests in respect of the unspent balances which they exceptionally wished to carry over in CDC’s interests; (b) Mr Ward (Director of Corporate Services and the Section 151 Officer) and Mrs Shepherd (Chief Executive) had examined the requests and deleted those which they did not support; and (c) the Corporate Governance and Audit Committee had reviewed the list and satisfied itself that they were appropriate.

Mr Dignum expressed his support for the requests.

Mr Barrow explained the nature and purpose of binfrastructure review (the second of the two requests submitted by Chichester Contract Services). In reply to Mr Connor, he confirmed that the review would include considering the use of non-corroding materials to replace metal for dog waste bins in coastal areas. He pointed out that dog waste could now be placed in general refuse bins. 

Decision

The Cabinet voted unanimously on a show of hands to make the resolution set out below. 

RESOLVED BY THE CABINET

That the requests for budgets to be carried forward to 2018-2019 totalling £90,000, as recommended by the Corporate Governance and Audit Committee at its meeting on 29 March 2018, be approved.

The committee is requested to consider and recommend to Cabinet the requests for budgets to be carried forward to 2018-19 totalling £90,000.

The committee presented the report attached to the agenda.

Mr Cooper presented the report. Four requests had been received for budgets to be carried over to 2018-19 subject to the funds being available and unspent at year end.

The role of the Assistant Corporate Counter Fraud Officer was queried. This was confirmed as internally focused work carrying out the National Fraud Initiative data matching processes and related to investigations of high and medium risk items.  A set of criteria was agreed with the NFI which had been expanded this year resulting in 7,500 matches as opposed to 1,500 matches last year. The single persons discount and business rates areas were also being investigated.

The committee commended the detail provided against each carry forward request stating that this was the same concept as the detail requested on the internal audit plan. This was noted by Mrs Belenger.

RECOMMENDED TO CABINET

That the requests for budgets to be carried forward to 2018-19 totalling £90,000 be approved.