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Performance and Budget Monitoring/Forecast Outturn 2021 22 as at Quarter 3

21/04/2022 - Performance and Budget Monitoring/Forecast Outturn 2021 22 as at Quarter 3

Councillor B Lewis presented a report which had been circulated in advance of the meeting, providing Cabinet with an update of Council Plan Performance and the Revenue Budget/forecast outturn for 2021-22, as at 31st December 2021, Quarter 3.

 

RESOLVEDto:

 

1)   Note the update of Council Plan performance and the Revenue Budget position/forecast outturn for 2021-22 as at 31 December 2021, Quarter 3;

 

2)   Consider whether there are any further actions that should be

undertaken to improve performance where it has not met the desired level;

 

3)   Note the position on General and Earmarked Reserves;

 

4)   Approve a contribution of £0.480m from the Finance & ICT services budget to an earmarked reserve to support the funding gap on the data centre to cloud transition programme;

 

5)   Approve a contribution of £0.040m from the Finance & ICT services budget to an earmarked reserve to support the training requirements for the ICT Schools Traded Services function;

 

6)   Approve a contribution of £0.050m from the Finance & ICT services budget to an earmarked reserve to support the modernisation of the ICT Traded Services function;

 

7)   Approve any earmarked reserves to be established, at the discretion of the Director of Finance & ICT, that are required to support the Council’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and that any funding received to support Covid-19 impacts, which has not been utilised by 31 March 2022, be contributed to these reserves, to allow this funding to be used for relevant expenditure after that date;

 

8)   Approve that an earmarked reserve be established and to contribute to this reserve £2.313m from the Risk Management budget for use towards the cost of any back-pay arising on a future pay award; and

 

9)    Approve one-off virements of £0.435m from the Debt Charges budget to the Corporate Services and Transformation portfolio in each of the five years 2021-22 to 2025-26, to fund the move of the current storage and computer infrastructure to the cloud;

 

10)                Approve a sum of £0.200m to be drawn down from the General Reserve to meet the costs of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee events and activities.