Decision details

County Councillor Jayne Rear, Chair of the Local Authority Funding and Income Generation Task Group, presented a report on the conclusions of the task group.

The focus of the task group was to identify various areas that could potentially provide an increase in income to support the financial sustainability of the county council. The task group considered documentary evidence from both internal services and external sources. Meetings were held with senior officers within the county council representing a range of services.

Once the report had been agreed by the committee, it would then be circulated to all relevant stakeholders, directors and cabinet members. Cabinet members were required to provide a response within two months which would be fed back to the committee.

It was proposed that there would be a proposed verbal update at the July meeting of the committee on any progress with a full written response potentially at a future meeting of the committee.

Members could then consider whether any further monitoring would be required if the response was incomplete or because the satisfactory resolution of the issues depended on information not yet available. Reasons for further monitoring needed to be considered.

Resolved: That;

  i.  Recommendations of the Task Group be supported as set out in the report at Appendix A;

  ii.  Appropriate mechanism for reviewing the response to the Task Group's recommendations be considered.