Decision details
Budget 2019/20 and Medium Term Financial Plan
Decision Maker: EXECUTIVE
Decision status: Recommend Forward to Council
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: No
Purpose:
To recommend the final revenue budget for 2019/20 to Council for approval on 21 February 2019.
Decision:
RESOLVED
1. To note the consultation responses from Overview and Scrutiny, the public and stakeholders as set out in Appendices J and 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) 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 2019/20 and the Medium Term Financial Plan for 2019/20 to 2022/23 be approved.
2. That in line with Government guidance, the following increases in Council tax (CBC element) for residents of Central Bedfordshire be approved:
(a) a Band D increase of £14.86, representing a 1.000% increase on the charge for 2018/19 and
(b) the CBC Band D Council Tax for 2019/20 will therefore be £1,500.64.
3. That the items set out in Appendix L to the Executive report be added to the Council’s Budget for 2019/20 and Medium Term Financial Plan for 2019/20 to 2022/23, noting that the use of previously identified funding streams does not necessitate any change to recommendation 2 above.
Report author: Denis Galvin
Publication date: 07/02/2019
Date of decision: 05/02/2019
Decided at meeting: 05/02/2019 - EXECUTIVE
Accompanying Documents:
- Budget 2019/20 and Medium Term Financial Plan PDF 423 KB
- Appendix Ai 1- Consultation PDF 90 KB
- Appendix Ai 2 - Consultation on the HRA Budget proposals PDF 20 KB
- Appendix B (i) - Budget 2019/20 and Medium Term Financial Plan - MTFP Four Year Summary PDF 367 KB
- Appendix B (ii) - Budget 2019/20 and Medium Term Financial Plan - MTFP Annual Summary PDF 240 KB
- Appendix B(iii) - Budget 2019/20 and Medium Term Financial Plan - Directorate Priorities PDF 122 KB
- Appendix C (i) - Budget 2019/20 and Medium Term Financial Plan - Pressures Summary PDF 161 KB
- Appendix C (ii) - Budget 2019/20 and Medium Term Financial Plan - Pressures by Directorate PDF 249 KB
- Appendix C (iii) - Budget 2019/20 and Medium Term Financial Plan - Pressures by Category PDF 230 KB
- Appendix D (i) - Budget 2019/20 and Medium Term Financial Plan - Efficiencies Summary PDF 161 KB
- Appendix D (ii) - Budget 2019/20 and Medium Term Financial Plan - Efficiencies by Directorate PDF 469 KB
- Appendix D (iii) - Budget 2019/20 and Medium Term Financial Plan - Efficiencies by Category PDF 232 KB
- Appendix E - Budget 2019/20 and Medium Term Financial Plan - Net Budget Diagram PDF 246 KB
- Appendix F (i) - Budget 2019/20 and Medium Term Financial Plan - Legal Framework PDF 256 KB
- Appendix F(ii) - Budget 2019/20 and Medium Term Financial Plan - Primary Statutory Requirements 2019 PDF 476 KB
- Appendix G - Budget 2019/20 and Medium Term Financial Plan - Reserves PDF 195 KB
- Appendix H - Budget 2019/20 and Medium Term Financial Plan - Council Tax Base PDF 515 KB
- Appendix I - Budget 2019/20 and Medium Term Financial Plan - Grant Income PDF 388 KB
- Appendix J - OSC Comments PDF 41 KB
- Appendix K (i) - Budget 2019/20 and Medium Term Financial Plan - Budgets by Head of Service PDF 231 KB
- Appendix K (ii) - Budget 2019/20 and Medium Term Financial Plan - Budgets by Head of Service Subjective PDF 253 KB
- Appendix L - Budget 2019/20 and Medium Term Financial Plan PDF 48 KB