The Finance Committee comprises
9 members. The Finance Committee may take decisions in respect of
the Finance and Property matters (but for the avoidance of doubt
not those matters which are reserved to the Charity Trustee
Sub-Committee) more particularly detailed below:
Finance
·
Monitoring Council budget each month;
·
Agreement of Council policies in respect of fees and
charges;
·
Agreement upon virements of £500,000 and over
or representing a major change of policy (any value) from one
division of a Service to another or between Services within
Directorates and within the approved budget.
Capital
Programme
Agreement of reports on the
implementation of the capital programme provided under the Capital
Programme Financial Reporting and Control Procedures,
including:-
a)
Approval of all new schemes; except expenditure
relating to feasibility works up to the value of £100,000 in
accordance with the Financial Procedure Rules and
b)
Approval of a variation to an existing scheme which
increases the value of the scheme by more than
£100,000;
Property
a)
Acquisitions of Property where the consideration to
be paid by the Council exceeds £250,000, but not including
any acquisition of Property that the Council is obliged by law to
complete;
b)
Disposals of Property, being of the freehold or
leasehold but not including a mortgagee sale or disposal that
Council must by law complete such as Right to Buy, lease
enfranchisement or easements to certain service
providers
o
Where the Council has been required by Law to
publicly advertise the proposed Disposal (e.g. public open space);
and one or more objections to the proposed Disposal has been
received;
o
Which are not subject to a competitive process where
the consideration to be received by the Council exceeds
£300,000;
o
For less than the best consideration reasonably
obtainable;
o
Which for any statutory or other legal reason need
to be decided by a committee, not an officer
o
Which involve the transfer of a freehold interest,
the grant of a lease for a term of not less than twenty-five years
or the assignment of a lease with a remaining term of not less than
twenty-five years AND a relevant councillor or parish/town council
has objected
c)
Appropriation to another purpose of surplus property
that has not been identified for disposal by the Finance
Committee.
Attending Meetings
Meetings of the Committee have to be held as physical meetings
and are open to the public. Meetings are normally held at
Sheffield Town Hall.
If you
would like to attend the meeting, please report to an Attendant in
the Foyer at the Town Hall where you will be directed to the
meeting room. However, it would be appreciated if you
could register to attend, in advance of the meeting, by
emailing committee@sheffield.gov.uk, as
this will assist with the management of attendance at the
meeting.
PLEASE NOTE: The meeting rooms in
the Town Hall have a limited capacity. We are unable to guarantee
entrance to the meeting room for observers, as priority will be
given to registered speakers and those that have registered to
attend.
Alternatively, you can observe the meeting remotely by clicking
on the ‘view the webcast’ link provided on the meetings
page of the website.
Public
Questions and Petitions
The arrangements for dealing with questions and
petitions at Committee meetings are as follows:-
If you wish to attend a meeting and ask a
question or present a petition, you must submit the
question/petition in writing by 9.00 a.m. at least 2 clear working
days in advance of the date of the meeting, by email to the
following address: committee@sheffield.gov.uk. E.g. For meetings held on a Wednesday,
questions/petitions will need to be received by 9.00 a.m. on the
Monday of that week. Questions/petitions submitted after the
deadline will be asked at the meeting subject to the discretion of
the Chair. You will also be asked to provide a contact email and/or
telephone number. (Details of how we will use and keep your
information can be found here).
The Chair of the meeting has discretion as to how
questions and petitions are presented at the meeting and as to
whether you are invited to ask your question or present a petition
at the meeting or they are read out at the meeting. A response to
the question or petition will be given by the Chair or Council
officer. If you are not able to attend the meeting, your
question/petition may be referred to the Chair, and a written
answer/response will be provided to you.
Where a submitted question or petition cannot be
answered because time does not allow, or where a Member undertakes
to provide a written answer/response, the written answer/response
will be provided to you within ten working days of the
meeting and will be
published on the Council website.
Please note that the Chair of the meeting may not
accept petitions or questions which
relate to:-
- matters not being within the responsibility of
the Local Authority or which affects the City or
its inhabitants;
- judicial or
quasi-judicial matters;
- individual planning/licence/grant applications
or appeals;
- named officers or Members of
the Council;
- confidential matters of the type referred to in
Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act, 1972;
or
- matters of an irrelevant, repetitious,
defamatory, frivolous or offensive nature or a general
misuse of the opportunity.
Recording
of Meetings
Recording is allowed at Committee meetings under the direction
of the Chair of the meeting. The protocol
on audio/visual recording and
photography provides
further information.
Please
note that meetings will be filmed for live or subsequent broadcast
via the Council’s website. See the
Council’s Webcasting
Notice for
more details.