Decision Maker: Executive
Decision status: Recommmend Forward to Council
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: No
Decision:
The Executive
resolved as follows:
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To recommend to Council the £1,544,000 Social
Care Support Grant is allocated in full to Children’s Social
Care (ref. paragraph 4.7 of the Executive
report).
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To recommend to Council the level of net expenditure
for the draft General Fund Revenue Budget 2019/20 of
£124,073,000 (ref. paragraph 6.2 of the
Executive report).
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To recommend to Council a level of budget savings of
£9.0m (ref. paragraphs 7.1 and 7.2 and Appendix 2 to the
Executive report).
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To recommend to Council that the Chief Executive be
authorised to take any necessary steps to ensure all staffing
savings are achieved (ref. paragraph 8.1 of
the Executive report).
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To recommend to Council that the Business Loans Fund
is increased from £100m to £200m with immediate effect
(ref. paragraph 8.3 of the Executive
report).
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To recommend to Council that the target level of
working balances remains at £6m (ref. paragraph 10.4
of the Executive report).
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To recommend a detailed review of earmarked reserves
takes place at Provisional Outturn 2018/19 to reprioritise and
unearmark funds to replenish working balances to their target level
in 2019/20 should this be necessary (ref. paragraph 10.4
of the Executive report).
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To recommend to Council that the 2019/20 costs of
£1.188m associated with the Ofsted action plan are agreed and
met from higher than anticipated returns from the Business Loans
Fund (ref. paragraph 10.5
of the Executive report).
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To note the report of the Budget Scrutiny Review
Panel as attached at Appendix 3 to the
Executive report and agree no direct actions arising
from that review.
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To note that the Director of Resources had attended
the Blackpool Business Leaders Group meeting on the 25 January 2019
to present the General Fund Revenue Budget and that the group had
made no recommendations on the proposed budget.
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To consider any further facts and information that
which subsequently come to light and report the details to the
meeting of the Executive on 25 February 2019.
Publication date: 05/02/2019
Date of decision: 04/02/2019
Decided at meeting: 04/02/2019 - Executive
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