Agenda item

Annexes 1 - 4

Minutes:

Annex 1 - Budget Adjustment

 

 

 

2020/21

£m

2021/22

£m

2022/23

£m

2023/24

£m

Buses

Highways and transport

1.500

3.000

3.000

3.000

Lines / Signs / Cats eyes

Highways and transport

1.000

0.000

0.000

0.000

Museums incl. upkeep and conservation and collections team

Education and Skills

0.936

0.936

0.936

0.936

Inclusion Service (primarily SENDO caseloads)

Education and skills

0.539

0.699

0.714

0.714

Parish and Town Councils increase in PROW grant from £250 to £500

Growth environment and planning

0.103

0.103

0.103

0.103

Increase to book fund

Education and skills

0.500

0.000

0.000

0.000

Veterans

Corporate Services

0.065

0.100

0.100

0.100

Capital financing

Financing Charges

0.250

0.250

0.250

0.250

TOTAL REVENUE

 

4.893

5.088

5.103

5.103

 

 

Revenue Budget

Revenue Budget 2020/21

Net Budget

£m

Adult Services

365.591

Chief Executive Services

16.317

Children's Social Care

149.510

Corporate Services

18.855

Education and Skills

51.521

Finance Services

42.154

Growth, Environment and Planning

4.890

Waste Management

65.956

Highways and Transport

65.936

Public Health and Wellbeing

1.155

Strategy and Performance

33.903

Sub-Total

815.788

Financing Charges

27.705

Available resources

1.358

Revenue Budget 2020/21

844.851

 

Capital Programme

 

 

2020/21

£m

Highways

5.000

TOTAL CAPITAL

5.000

 

Funded by additional prudential borrowing at an estimated revenue financing cost of £0.250m per annum.

 

County Councillor Geoff Driver CBE,

Leader of the County Council,

13th February 2020

View of the Chief Executive and Director of Resources (S151)

The proposals have been validated as being deliverable financially in 2020/21.

In validating the proposals, I have been mindful that:

  • They can be funded in 2020/21 from the £6.251m of available resources earmarked for expenditure relating to the ongoing Improvement Journey work, which would instead be funded from capital receipt flexibilities which have been extended to cover 2020/21. 

 

  • Some of the adjustments have a larger financial impact in 2021/22 and beyond.

 

Over the term of the financial strategy, the proposals would increase the structural funding gap by £5.103m to £38.402m in 2023/24. Unless further savings were found in advance of this, this would be an additional call on the transitional reserve. 

 

Annex 2 - Labour Group Amendment

 

 

 

2020/21

£m

2021/22

£m

2022/23

£m

2023/24

£m

Reinstatement of Waste – Household Waste Recycling Centre Service Provision (SC001)

Waste Management

0.734

0.734

0.734

0.734

Reinstatement of Welfare Rights Service (SC608)

Public Health and Wellbeing

0.380

0.380

0.380

0.380

Reinstatement of Lancashire Break Time (SC119)

Education and Skills

1.040

1.040

1.040

1.040

Provide additional funding for winter gritting temporary routes

Highways and Transport

0.110

0.110

0.110

0.110

Reinstatement of Highways – Gully Emptying (SC029)

Highways and Transport

0.283

0.283

0.283

0.283

Reinstatement of Highways Network Regulation (Parking – on street pay and display) (SC034)

Highways and Transport

0.100

0.185

0.185

0.185

Residential Streets

Highways and Transport

5.000

5.000

5.000

5.000

Flooding (Eccleston & Lancaster)

Highways and Transport

4.000

4.000

4.000

4.000

Highways – Recover/cobble streets

Highways and Transport

2.000

2.000

2.000

2.000

County Nursery Schools Funding Reserve

Education and Skills

1.000

0.000

0.000

0.000

Capital Financing

Financing Charges

0.018

0.018

0.018

0.018

TOTAL REVENUE

 

14.665

13.750

13.750

13.750

 

Revenue Budget

 

Revenue Budget 2020/21

Net Budget

£m

Adult Services

365.591

Chief Executive Services

16.317

Children's Social Care

149.510

Corporate Services

18.790

Education and Skills

51.586

Finance Services

42.154

Growth, Environment and Planning

4.787

Waste Management

66.690

Highways and Transport

74.929

Public Health and Wellbeing

1.535

Strategy and Performance

33.903

Sub-Total

825.792

Financing Charges

27.473

Available resources

-8.414

Revenue Budget 2020/21

844.851

 

This amendment would be funded by a contribution from the transitional reserve of £8.414m.

 

 

 

 

Capital Programme

 

 

2020/21

£m

Feasibility Study - Midgehall Railway Station

0.050

Feasibility Study - Coppull Railway Station

0.050

Residents Parking Schemes

0.250

TOTAL CAPITAL

0.350

 

Funded by additional prudential borrowing at an estimated revenue financing cost of £18,000 per annum

 

County Councillor Tony Martin,

 

13th February 2020

View of the Chief Executive and Director of Resources (S151)

The proposals have been validated as being deliverable financially in 2020/21.

In validating the proposals, I have been mindful that:

 

  • There are no compensatory savings offered which will lead to a greater call on reserves in 2020/21 and increase the structural deficit in the budget. 

 

  • Some of the adjustments have a larger financial impact in 2021/22 and beyond.

Over the term of the financial strategy, the proposals would further increase the structural funding gap by £13.750 to £47.049 in 2023/24. Unless further savings were found in advance of this, this would be an additional call on the transitional reserve. 

 

Annex 3 - Liberal Democrat Group Amendment

 

 

 

2020/21

£m

2021/22

£m

2022/23

£m

2023/24

£m

Provide emergency funding for nursery schools

Education and Skills

1.000

0.000

0.000

0.000

Contribution to Ribble Rivers Trust Woodland Connect programme

Growth, Environment and Planning

0.050

0.050

0.000

0.000

Reinstate funding for Household Waste Recycling Centres

(SC001)

Waste

0.734

0.734

0.734

0.734

Provide funding for street light energy costs to allow more flexible policy on times of dimming in locations where there are community safety concerns 

Highways and Transport

0.500

0.500

0.500

0.500

Fund additional reactive maintenance to highway drainage, with delegation to districts where there is local capacity to  carry out work (including drainage schemes in capital programme)

Highways and Transport

0.318

0.318

0.318

0.318

Fund set up costs of a Local Lancashire Lottery with the aim to generate funds to replace the funding lost to charitable

and other organisations being cut through axing of LCC  funding streams

Corporate

0.007

0.000

0.000

0.000

Fund six person team (part year) to market county council facilities and services to generate income (see savings)

Growth, Planning and Environment

0.200

0.000

0.000

0.000

Capital financing

Financing Charge

0.814

0.814

0.814

0.814

TOTAL REVENUE

 

3.623

2.416

2.366

2.366

 

Funded by Revenue Savings:

 

 

2020/21

£m

2021/22

£m

2022/23

£m

2023/24

£m

Reduce agency staff costs

Corporate

1.000

1.000

1.000

1.000

Additional net income from profitable use of county council’s physical assets (e.g. weddings at Wycoller), traded services and greater income generation from Outdoor Education facilities

Strategy and Performance

1.000

1.000

1.000

1.000

Cease provision of Member Champion grants

Corporate

0.50

0.50

0.50

0.50

Increase staff vacancy factor by a further 0.5%

Corporate

1.643

1.643

1.643

1.643

Reduce Special Responsibility Allowance of Leader of County

Council (with pro-rata adjustments to SRAs geared to that level)

by 10% and cease SRAs for Member Champions

Corporate

0.062

0.062

0.062

0.062

TOTAL SAVINGS

 

3.755

3.755

3.755

3.755

 

Transfer to transitional reserve:  £0.132m

 

Revenue Budget

Revenue Budget 2020/21

Net Budget

£m

Adult Services

365.591

Chief Executive Services

16.317

Children's Social Care

149.510

Corporate Services

16.042

Education and Skills

50.546

Finance Services

42.154

Growth, Environment and Planning

5.037

Waste Management

66.690

Highways and Transport

64.254

Public Health and Wellbeing

1.155

Strategy and Performance

32.903

Sub-Total

810.199

Financing Charges

28.269

Available resources

6.383

Revenue Budget 2020/21

844.851

 

Capital Programme

 

 

2020/21

£m

Road and pavement repairs

15.000

Increase drainage maintenance budget

1.282

TOTAL CAPITAL

16.282

 

This represents an additional 40% commitment against the highways capital block for 2020/21.The spend will be funded by additional prudential borrowing at an estimated revenue financing cost of £0.814m per annum.

 

County Councillor David Whipp,

Liberal Democrat Party

13th February 2020

View of the Chief Executive and Director of Resources (S151)

The proposals have been validated as being affordable in 2020/21 and based on the savings identified increase the budget surplus. However of the additional revenue savings proposed to fund the additions to the revenue budget, £1m relates to the targeting of additional income and within the timescales it has not been possible to undertake as rigorous a validation process as the income generating proposals contained within the budget report. 

 

In addition, reducing agency staff costs and increasing the vacancy factor would need to be very closely monitored to determine the impact on services with the risk that, in some areas, there could be a negative impact on service delivery. 

Over the term of the financial strategy, the proposals would reduce the structural funding gap by £1.389m to £31.910m in 2023/24.

 

Annex 4 - County Councillor Dowding's Amendment

 

 

 

2020/21

£m

2021/22

£m

2022/23

£m

2023/24

£m

Reinstate the Home Improvement Service adds back a previous saving SC611.

Public Health and Wellbeing

0.880

0.880

0.880

0.880

Funding for maintained Nursery Schools.

Education and Skills

0.289

0.289

0.289

0.289

Capital Financing

Financing Charges

0.025

0.025

0.025

0.025

County Council climate action co-ordinator

Growth, Environment and Planning

0.050

0.050

0.050

0.050

TOTAL REVENUE

 

1.244

1.244

1.244

1.244

 

 Revenue Budget

Revenue Budget 2020/21

Net Budget

£m

Adult Services

365.591

Chief Executive Services

16.317

Children's Social Care

149.510

Corporate Services

18.790

Education and Skills

50.426

Finance Services

42.154

Growth, Environment and Planning

4.837

Waste Management

65.956

Highways and Transport

63.436

Public Health and Wellbeing

1.444

Strategy and Performance

33.903

Sub-Total

812.364

Financing Charges

27.480

Available resources

5.007

Revenue Budget 2020/21

844.851

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Capital Programme

 

 

2020/21

£m

Cycling infrastructure (5% ring fenced of a transport grant figure to be confirmed)

0

Pavement repairs  from existing budget finance for road maintenance

0.500

TOTAL CAPITAL

0.500

 

Funded by the transport grant and additional prudential borrowing with an annual revenue cost of £25,000.

 

County Councillor Gina Dowding,

13th February 2020

View of the Chief Executive and Director of Resources (S151)

The proposals have been validated as being deliverable financially in 2020/21.

In validating the proposals, I have been mindful that:

  • They can be funded in 2020/21 from the £6.251m of available resources earmarked for expenditure relating to the ongoing Improvement Journey work, which would instead be funded from capital receipt flexibilities which have been extended to cover 2020/21.

 

Over the term of the financial strategy, the proposals would further increase the structural funding gap by £1.244m to £34.543m in 2023/24. Unless further savings were found in advance of this, this would be an additional call on the transitional reserve.