Issue - meetings

RESOLVED – that (A) the comments of the joint meeting of Scrutiny Committees of 14 January 2014 be received; and

(B)   the probable Revenue Estimates for 2013/14 and the draft Revenue Estimates for 2014/15, as now submitted, be approved.

(see also Minute 550)

The Executive Member for Finance submitted a report on the service estimates.  The joint meeting of Scrutiny Committees, at their meeting held on 14 January 2014, had supported the proposals.

The Executive supported the proposals now detailed.

RECOMMENDED – that (A) the comments of the joint meeting of Scrutiny Committees of 14 January 2014 be received; and

(B)   the probable Revenue Estimates for 2013/14 and the draft Revenue Estimates for 2014/15, as now submitted, be approved.

The Executive Member for Finance submitted a report that set out proposals for the Council’s Service Estimates for 2013/14 (Probable) and the 2014/15 Estimates.  Members were referred to Essential Reference Papers ‘B’ and ‘C’ for the full details of the revenue budget and revenue estimates.

Councillor R Beeching stated that he had been out with Community Safety and Police Officers on Christmas Eve and New Years Eve and had observed that taxi marshalling had been non existent and this was a major community safety issue.

In response to a number of points made by Members in terms of whether East Herts Council should fund the provision of taxi marshals on these two key nights, the Chief Executive and Director of Customer and Community Services suggested that Councillor R Beeching might wish to discuss the issue with the Executive Member for Community Safety and Environment.

Members supported this suggestion.

Councillor G Jones queried why the expenditure on IT Services was showing as reducing to £674,680 for 2013/14 and to £489,620 for 2014/15.  The Director of Finance and Support Services advised that these figures reflected the realisation of savings resulting from the new IT shared service arrangements.

Members resolved to inform the Executive that the joint meeting of Scrutiny Committees had supported the probable revenue budget for 2013/14 as well as the estimates for 2014/15.

RESOLVED – that the Executive be informed that the joint meeting of Scrutiny Committees support the probable revenue budget for 2013/14 as well as the estimates for 2014/15.