O&S.49/21
The notes of the informal
meeting of the Overview & Scrutiny Committee on 16 December
2021 were confirmed as a correct record.
The Chair then stated that as
the joint meeting of the O&S and Development Management
Committees held on 13 January 2022 was an informal meeting, the
Committee needed to ratify the three proposals that were put
forward at that meeting. These
were:
i) To ratify the
decisions taken at the informal Joint O&S and Development
Management (DM) Committee Budget meeting on 13 January
ii) To agree
the inclusion of Mid Devon District Council’s request on
today’s agenda (Minute O&S.56/21 b) below refers),
and
iii) To set up a
task and finish group as requested by the Leader.
Following the PROPOSAL and SECONDING of the proposals
related to the draft Revenue and Capital Budget, these proposals
were then voted on and declared CARRIED.
The Committee then reviewed the
recommendations as so moved at the informal Joint O&S and DM
Committees Budget meeting held on 13 January 2022.
It was then
RECOMMENDED
That, as part of the draft
Revenue and Capital Budget Setting process for 2022/23, the
Overview and Scrutiny Committee RECOMMEND that the
Executive RECOMMEND to Council that:-
1.
recognising that the Council has declared both a Climate Change and
Biodiversity Emergency and Housing Emergency, the Executive be
urged to give priority to the development and execution of projects
in respect of both in 2022/23;
2. the sum
of £3.5 million allocated out of the Business Retention
Reserve to employment in 2018/19 remains unspent. It is proposed
that out of this sum £1.0 million be reallocated to the
proposed Affordable Housing Reserve Fund and £250,000 be
reallocated to the Climate Change & Biodiversity Reserve;
and
3. the
following ten proposals be noted:
i) The proposed
increase in Council Tax for 2022/23 of £5 (Band D of
£180.42 for 2022/23 – an increase of 10 pence per week
or £5 per year – equates to a 2.85%
increase);
ii) The
financial pressures shown in Appendix A of the informal agenda
paper amounting to £1,044,600;
iii) The net
contributions to/(from) Earmarked Reserves of £561,600 as
shown in Appendix D of the informal agenda paper, including the
proposed use of £500,000 of New Homes Bonus funding to fund
the 2022/23 Revenue Budget as set out in 3.30 of the report and
£100,000 from the Business Rates Retention Earmarked Reserve
as set out in 3.21 of the informal agenda paper;
iv) That
£407,557 of the New Homes Bonus grant allocation for 2022/23
is allocated to an Affordable Housing Earmarked Reserve as a one-of
contribution for 2022/23 as set out in 3.30 to 3.31 of the informal
agenda paper;
v) The
savings of £404,000 as shown in Appendix A of the informal
agenda paper;
vi) That South
Hams District Council continues to be part of the Devon Business
Rates Pool for 2022/23;
vii) The proposed
Capital Programme Proposals for 2022/23 of £1,665,000 and the
proposed financing of the ...
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