Agenda item

4.1

The Committee considered (a) a report of the Director of Policy, Performance and Communications providing an overview of the Council’s current approach to budget and business planning, and setting out the proposed approach to the next planning cycle and (b) comments made by the Executive Director, Resources and the Cabinet Member for Finance highlighting that the proposed approach aimed to produce a Council budget that was more closely focussed on outcomes aligned with the priorities within the new Corporate Plan.

4.2

RESOLVED: That the Committee (i) welcomes the Council’s approach to budget and business planning, as described in the report; and

(ii) places on record its recognition of the efforts of, and demands placed on, the employees of the Council during the past 7 years of budget reductions.