Decision details
Budget 2017/18 and Medium Term Financial Plan
Decision Maker: EXECUTIVE
Decision status: Recommend Forward to Council
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
Purpose:
The report proposes the Budget for 2017/18 and updates the Medium Term Financial Plan (MTFP) approved by Council in February 2016.
Decision:
RESOLVED
1. To note the response to consultation with the Overview and Scrutiny Committees as set out in Appendix J to the Executive report and the response to consultation with the public and stakeholders as set out in Appendix A(i) to the Executive report.
2. To note the Council Tax Base as set out in Appendix H to the Executive report.
3. To note that certain efficiency proposals identified in Appendix D(ii) to the Executive report will be subject to formal consultation and Equality Impact Assessment in the coming months and instruct the Corporate Management Team to propose alternative compensatory savings if it appears, following a review of the outcome of the consultation and Equality Impact Assessment, that any specific proposal cannot be delivered.
RECOMMENDED to Council
1. That the Revenue Budget for 2017/18 and the Medium Term Financial Plan for 2017/18 to 2020/21 be approved.
2. That in line with Government guidance, the following increases in Council tax (CBC element) for residents of Central Bedfordshire:
(a) a Band D increase of £21.07, representing a 1.549% increase on the charge for 2016/17; and
(b) a Band D increase of £40.80, representing a 3.0% increase on the charge for 2016/17, reflecting a precept of this amount to help fund adult social care costs.
In total the Band D increase will be £61.87, representing a 4.549% increase on the charge for 2016/17. The CBC element of Band D council tax for 2017/18 will therefore be £1,421.88.
Report author: Denis Galvin
Publication date: 09/02/2017
Date of decision: 07/02/2017
Decided at meeting: 07/02/2017 - EXECUTIVE
Accompanying Documents:
- Budget 2017/18 and Medium Term Financial Plan PDF 216 KB
- Appendix A (i) - Budget 2017/18 and Medium Term Financial Plan - Consultation PDF 40 KB
- Appendix A (ii) - Budget 2017/18 and Medium Term Financial Plan - Petitions PDF 13 KB
- Appendix B (i) - Budget 2017/18 and Medium Term Financial Plan - MTFP Four Year Summary PDF 191 KB
- Appendix B (ii) - Budget 2017/18 and Medium Term Financial Plan - MTFP Annual Summary PDF 153 KB
- Appendix B (iii) - Budget 2017/18 and Medium Term Financial Plan - Directorate Priorities PDF 146 KB
- Appendix C (i) - Budget 2017/18 and Medium Term Financial Plan - Pressures Summary PDF 92 KB
- Appendix C (ii) - Budget 2017/18 and Medium Term Financial Plan - Pressures by Directorate PDF 161 KB
- Appendix D (i) - Budget 2017/18 and Medium Term Financial Plan - Efficiencies Summary PDF 91 KB
- Appendix D (ii) - Budget 2017/18 and Medium Term Financial Plan - Efficiencies by Directorate PDF 475 KB
- Appendix D (iii) - Budget 2017/18 and Medium Term Financial Plan - Efficiences by Category PDF 135 KB
- Appendix E - Budget 2017/18 and Medium Term Financial Plan - 2017-18 Net Budget - Diagram PDF 68 KB
- Appendix F - Budget 2017/18 and Medium Term Financial Plan - Statutory Requirements PDF 270 KB
- Appendix F Addendum - Budget 2017/18 and Medium Tern Financial Plan - Statutory Requirements PDF 89 KB
- Appendix G - Budget 2017/18 and Medium Term Financial Plan - Reserves Policy PDF 52 KB
- Appendix H - Budget 2017/18 and Medium Term Financial Plan - Council Tax Base PDF 260 KB
- Appendix I - Budget 2017/18 and Medium Term Financial Plan - Grant Income PDF 81 KB
- Appendix J - Budget 2017/18 and Medium Term Financial Plan - Feedback from the Overview and Scrutiny Committees PDF 50 KB
- Appendix K (i) - Budget 2017/18 and Medium Term Financial Plan - Budgets by Heads of Service PDF 226 KB
- Appendix K (ii) - Budget 2017/18 and Medium Term Financial Plan - Budgets by Heads of Service Subjective PDF 236 KB