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Agenda and decisions

Venue: Steve Greenslade Room, County Hall, Usk

Contact: Democratic Services 

Note: View the meeting: https://join-emea.broadcast.skype.com/monmouthshire.gov.uk/44cc5a23202d4ddd9691563e8f06d145 

Items
No. Item

1.

Apologies for Absence

2.

Declarations of Interest

3.

To consider the following reports (Copies attached):

3a

S106 Funding - Forensic Science Laboratory Site, Chepstow pdf icon PDF 178 KB

Purpose: To recommend to full Council the inclusion of capital funding in the 2019/20 Capital Budget and to recommend the allocation of grants from the available funding to four specific projects.

Author: Mike Moran, Community Infrastructure Coordinator

Contact Details: mikemoran@monmouthshire.gov.uk

Decision:

That Council agrees to a budget of £77,736 being created in 2019/20 to fund the following projects and that this is funded by a corresponding contribution from the Section 106 balances held by the County Council from the Section 106 Agreement in relation to the Forensic Science Laboratory site in Chepstow.

 

That grants in the sums shown below be allocated to the following projects from the remaining balance of £77,736:

 

1. Upgrading of The Bayfield and the Danes Play Areas 46,736

2. Garden City Sensory Garden 6,000

3. Children’s Voices in Play project 25,000

 

Total 77,736

 

3b

Revenue and Capital Monitoring Outturn pdf icon PDF 405 KB

Division/Wards Affected: N/A

Purpose: to provide Members with information on the revenue and capital outturn position of the Authority based on capital slippage and reserve approval and deferment.

Author: Mark Howcroft, Assistant Head of Finance

Contact Details: markhowcroft@monmouthshire.gov.uk

Decision:

That Members consider a net revenue outturn of £49k surplus.

 

That members endorse the revenue surplus for the year being used to replenish Capital Receipts generation reserve, and notes the effective closure of the priority investment reserve, appreciating the use of reserve balances at outturn, the slippage to 2019-20 proposed and the low level of earmarked reserves, which will notably reduce the flexibility the Council has in re-engineering services and facilitating change to mitigate the challenges of scare resources going forward.

 

That Members note the extent of movements in individual budgeted draws on school balances, and reported recovery plan intentions as a consequence of their approving changes to Fairer Funding guidelines since month 2

 

That Members note the 81% delivery of the budget setting savings agreed by full Council previously and the implicit remedial action/savings included in the financial monitoring to compensate for circa 20% savings (£951k) reported as delayed or unachievable by service managers.

 

That Members note the enhanced monitoring of Children’s services and additional learning needs proposed, to supply details for instance of average unit costs, the activity and predicted volume of presentations used in forecasting, to allow services an earlier opportunity to highlight cost pressures and more timeto resolve such by remedial action in year.

 

That Members consider the capital outturn spend of £70.31m, introducing a £1.015m anticipated overspend, accepts slippage requests of £9.9m being endorsed and the related presumptions made around net financing consequences as per section 3.5.

3c

Welsh Church Fund Working Group pdf icon PDF 64 KB

Division/Wards Affected: N/A

Purpose: to make recommendations to Cabinet on the Schedule of Applications 2019/20, meeting 2 held on 16th May 2019

Author: Dave Jarrett, Senior Accountant

Contact Details: davejarrett@monmouthshire.gov.uk

Additional documents:

Decision:

That grants be awarded as per the schedule of applications.

3d

LDP Issues, Vision and Objectives pdf icon PDF 102 KB

Division/Wards Affected: All

Purpose: To endorse the updated Issues, Vision and Objectives Paper which has been prepared in connection with the Monmouthshire Replacement Local Development Plan (LDP), noting that the objectives and vision will continue to be refined as the LDP Preferred Strategy is drafted and consulted on.

Author: Mark Hand, Head of Planning, Housing and Place Shaping

             Rachel Lewis, Planning Policy Manager

Contact Details: markhand@monmouthshire.gov.uk

                           rachellewis@monmouthshire.gov.uk         

Additional documents:

Decision:

To note the amendments to the Issues, Vision and Objectives Paper following feedback received to date.

 

To endorse the updated Issues, Vision and Objectives Paper which has been prepared in connection with the Monmouthshire Replacement Local Development Plan (LDP), noting that the objectives and vision will continue to be refined as the LDP Preferred Strategy is drafted and consulted on.