Issue - meetings

The Executive Director, Finance and Corporate Resources, Bromsgrove District Council and Redditch Borough Council apologised to Members for the late submission of the revised recommendations and Appendix for the Regulatory Services Budget 2011/2012 – 2013/2014 report to the Committee.

Members’ attention was drawn to the amendment on Appendix 1 to the report where the ‘Budget Total as per Legal Agreement’, Proposed Budget 2013/2014 should read £5,869 and not £6,315 as shown.

The Chairman announced that, in light of the revised recommendations and Appendix for the Regulatory Services Budget 2011/2012 – 2012/2014, which had been made available to her immediately prior to the meeting; she was prepared to adjourn the meeting for around ten minutes to allow Members to read the revised documents.

Accordingly, the meeting stood adjourned from 4.55pm to 5.05pm.

Having re-convened, the Committee then considered the revised recommendations and Appendix.  The Executive Director, Finance and Corporate Resources, Bromsgrove District Council and Redditch Borough Council informed Members of the figures for the direct operating budget for 2011/12 – 2012/14 and provided Members with an explanation on the figures shown against ‘Savings to be identified following restructure’.

The Executive Director, Finance and Corporate Resources, Bromsgrove District Council and Redditch Borough Council informed the Committee that following the approval of the formal agreement it had been identified that five posts had not been transferred. The Executive Director, Finance and Corporate Resources, Bromsgrove District Council and Redditch Borough Council and the Chief Executive, Bromsgrove District Council and Redditch Borough Council, responded to Members’ questions regarding the five identified posts.

Following further discussion it was:

RESOLVED:

(a)    that the direct operating budget for 2011/12 – 2013/14 be approved as follows:

2011/12   £6,314,546

2012/13   £5,868,796

2013/14   £5,868,796

(b)    that the Worcestershire Treasurers Group be requested to consider the financial implications of the post implementation staffing changes and that the Executive Director, Finance and Corporate Resources, Bromsgrove District Council and Redditch Borough Council be tasked to report back to the next meeting of the Joint Committee the impact of these adjustments on the cost shares for each member authority for 2010/11 - 2013/14.

(c)    that it be noted that the one-off costs for change (including costs of          staff termination) as included in the 2010/11 Business Case would not form part of any future budget considerations and that these would be   paid in line with the cost sharing allocations as stated in the Legal        Agreement (Schedule 4 pt 2).