Decision details

Decision Maker: Cabinet

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Decision:

RESOLVED - (1) That in respect of the Outturn Position for 2020/21, Cabinet:

 

(a)   agrees that the total of £0.536m requested by services can be retained by them via the associated carry forward requests, as set out in Appendix A to item A.6 of the Report of the Corporate Finance & Governance Portfolio Holder; and

 

(b) after considering the recommendations of the Portfolio Holder for Corporate Finance and Governance, agrees:

 

(i)    that subject to the approval of an associated Project Initiation Document /  Business case, it is approved, in principle, that the necessary remedial works be carried out at the Weeley crematorium funded by using the overall General Fund Outturn Variance for the year of £1.539m;

 

(ii)        that, subject to b(i) above, the approval of the Project Initiation Document / Business Case associated with the proposed remedial works at the Weeley Crematorium be delegated to the Portfolio Holder for Environment and Public Spaces and the Portfolio Holder for Corporate Finance and Governance; and

 

(iii)       that £2.060m be allocated to support the recent bid to the Government’s ‘Levelling Up Fund’, funded by the use of amounts identified within the 2021/22 budget.

 

(2)   That, in respect of the Council’s Financial Performance for 2021/22, Cabinet:

 

(a)   notes the high level summary of the in-year position for 2021/22 to date and the long term forecast update for 2022/23 and beyond; 

 

(b)   agrees the proposed in-year adjustments to the budget, as set out in Appendix B to item A.6 of the Report of the Corporate Finance & Governance Portfolio Holder;

 

(c)   agrees an exemption to the Council’s procurement rules in order to enable a Service Level Agreement to be entered into with Essex County Council to enable the Council to ‘buy in’ various procurement services from them to support its day-to-day operational activities and the delivery of one-off projects, as necessary; and

 

(d)   authorises the Assistant Director (Finance and IT) and the Deputy Chief Executive to agree the terms of the Service Level Agreement, in consultation with the Portfolio Holder for Corporate Finance and Governance.

Publication date: 17/09/2021

Date of decision: 17/09/2021

Decided at meeting: 17/09/2021 - Cabinet

Effective from: 25/09/2021

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