That the Corporate Finance and Governance Portfolio Holder hereby:
(a) notes the financial outturn position for 2023/24 as set out in this report and appendices;
(b) approves the financing of General Fund capital expenditure for 2023/24 as detailed in Appendix D;
(c) approves the movement in uncommitted and earmarked General Fund reserves for 2023/24 set out in Appendix E;
(d) approves the General Fund revenue carry forward items totalling £9.879m (as set out in column 4 of Appendix K), with budgets for the remaining items totalling £2.732m (as set out in column 5 of Appendix K) being transferred to the relevant earmarked commitments reserve pending further consideration;
(e) requests Officers, subject to (d) above, to provide additional information relating to the unapproved General Fund revenue carry forwards totalling £2.732m to enable them to be considered further and that these will be subject to separate / further decisions later in the year as necessary;
(f) approves the General Fund capital carry forwards totalling £12.010m as set out in Appendix D;
(g) in respect of the HRA, approves the movement on HRA balances for 2023/24 including any commitments set out within Appendices H and/or I along with recharges to the HRA from the General fund of £2.811m for the year and the financing of the HRA capital expenditure set out in Appendix I;
(h) notes the overall General Fund outturn variance of £1.829m for 2023/24 that is being carried forward via the Revenue Commitments Reserve, and:
i) recommends to Cabinet that £0.259m of this overall General Fund variance that relates to the net outturn surplus on Off-Street Parking ‘Account’ is set aside for investment in that Service; and
ii) agrees that the remaining balance of £1.570m is set aside to support the items included in Table 3 within this report and that final proposals be recommended to Cabinet when they consider the Portfolio Holder for Finance and Governance’s Outturn report at their meeting on 26 July 2024.