Agenda and minutes

The Chair to welcome members of the Committee, officers, any external witnesses, and the public to the meeting and introduce committee members, officers and witnesses who are present.

To receive any apologies.

Councillors to declare any disclosable pecuniary interests, other registerable interests, or non-registerable interests (including other pecuniary interests) they may have in the business to be transacted, and officers to declare any interests they may have in any contract to be considered.

The attached report (Item 4) sets out the narrative on the draft 2023/24 budget proposals and covers both the immediate proposals for 2023/24 and for the Council’s Medium-Term Financial Plan up to 2026/27.  Additional information about the Council’s finances is set out in a number of annexes which are also included in this pack as follows:

*Annexes A, B, C, D, H, J & K are included as a separate pack of A3 sized documents and are page numbered separately.

These documents were prepared for a Delegated Decision taken by Councillor Middleton on 20 December 2022 in which the Cabinet noted and endorsed the draft budget proposals set out in the report and supporting annexes, subject to the outcomes of the current public consultation which commenced on 13 December 2022 and will run until 31 January 2023.

Having scrutinised the anticipated income and inflationary pressures on the 2023/24 budget at its October meetings, the Committee will concentrate its scrutiny on the savings/reductions and revenue raising proposals in the 2023/24 draft budget, where appropriate discuss these with the relevant Cabinet Members and Senior Officers of the Council, satisfy itself as to their robustness and make recommendations to Cabinet at its meeting on 7 February 2023. 

The proposed timetable for the January meetings is set out below:

The Committee may need to consider excluding the public and press in accordance with Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972, should it wish to discuss specific proposals which would identify individual members of staff.

Members of the Committee are reminded that this set of papers covers all the January Challenge meetings and that they should bring these papers with them to each session.

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