Agenda item

That the recommendations of the Cabinet held on 13^th February, 2013, as relates to the City Council's Revenue Budget and Capital Programme 2013/2014, be replaced by the following resolution:-

RESOLVED: That this Council:

(1)

regrets that after years of investment in front line services in Sheffield, overseen by the previous Government, this City is now facing an ideologically driven attack on public services by the present Government;

(2)

confirms that in the past two years the Council has had to contend with devastating Government cuts and has had to make savings of  £140 million;

(3)

expresses its anger and dismay that the Council’s budget position is now significantly worse than was previously estimated because the Government are making additional unfair cuts to Sheffield as a result of their failure to grow the economy;

(4)

confirms that in the financial year 2013/14 the Council will have to make savings of around £50 million and continues to oppose the Government’s unfair cuts to Sheffield;

(5)

is disappointed that the main opposition group continue to fully support the cuts that the Government are imposing on Sheffield and that the Liberal Democrat Party nationally continue to be part of a Conservative-led Government which are making unprecedented ideological cuts to public services;

(6)

regrets that the Government’s cuts are unfairly targeted, impacting most heavily on the areas with the highest levels of deprivation whilst some of the wealthiest areas of the country are receiving a substantially lower cut;

(7)

notes that research showing the level of cuts per person in each different local authority areas are as follows:

(i)

Sheffield

-£198.47

(ii)

Doncaster

- £208.63

(iii)

Barnsley

-£168.07

(iv)

Newcastle upon Tyne

-£217.96

(v)

Manchester

-£284.34

(vi)

Richmond-upon-Thames

-£39.21

(vii)

Wokingham

-£26.53

(viii)

Windsor and Maidenhead

-£34.46

(ix)

East Dorset

-£34.24

(x)

North Dorset

-£28.10

(8)

Is particularly disappointed that the Deputy Prime Minister has completely failed to stand up for Sheffield and continues to allow Sheffield and northern towns and cities to receive such a disproportionate level of cuts;

(9)

notes that unfortunately many other Councils are also facing significant reductions in services and this is reflected in the letters written to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government by all Core City leaders explaining the impact that the cuts will have on their cities;

(10)

regrets that despite the concerns raised by city leaders, the Government have pressed ahead with an unprecedented level of cuts in the Local Government Finance Settlement despite warnings about the impact it will have on Council services in Sheffield and across the core cities; 

(11)

further regrets that in the 2012 Autumn Statement the Government extended the period of austerity to 2017/18 and believes this is as a result of their economic failure and mismanagement;

(12)

is particularly concerned that at the same time as public services are being heavily cut and the Government are cutting Council Tax Benefit which impacts on the poorest in the City, the Government think it is appropriate to reduce the top rate of income tax;

(13)

thanks all members of staff across the Council who have contributed to achieving a balanced budget for 2013/14, in this extremely challenging financial climate;

(14)

notes that as a result of budget cuts there could be up to 600 Council posts affected during the financial year 2013/14, including job roles that could be lost through voluntary severance or voluntary early retirement as well as any vacancies that have not been filled;

(15)

expresses sincere and heartfelt sympathy to those members of staff who are losing their jobs through compulsory redundancy and regrets that the Government’s cuts agenda has made compulsory redundancies unavoidable;

(16)

notes that the Council workforce has had to contend with real-term pay reductions over the past three years and notes that pay increments have been frozen since pre-April 2011;

(17)

welcomes the commitment of the present Administration to support the lowest paid members of staff through the introduction of the Living Wage;

(18)

thanks the whole of the Council’s workforce for continuing to work hard to serve Sheffield during extremely difficult circumstances and continues to value the hard work and public sector ethos of Council staff;

(19)

regrets that this is in stark contrast to the approach of the Government and Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government who continue to denigrate local government in an attempt to justify their attack on public services;

(20)

regrets that this approach has been replicated by the Deputy Prime Minister and Main Opposition Group in recent weeks who have continued to make factually inaccurate statements about Council spending in a desperate attempt to denigrate the Council and deflect attention from their responsibility for the unprecedented level of cuts faced by the Council;

(21)

welcomes that the present Administration continue to find ways to improve efficiency within the Council and limit as far as possible the impact that cuts have on front line services;

(22)

believes this is demonstrated by the present Administration delivering on their pledge to reduce spending on senior management by £1 million and believes that this action has helped to protect front line services;

(23)

confirms that the present Administration will go further and commits to saving a further £500,000 from management posts within the next year;

(24)

regrets that due to the level of cuts the Council is facing no area of the Council’s budget can remain untouched;

(25)

confirms that the present Administration have prioritised protecting the most vulnerable in our society as far as possible;

(26)

is extremely concerned at the impact that the Government’s economic mismanagement is having on the people of Sheffield and welcomes the present Administration’s commitment to the Sheffield Apprenticeship Programme and the wide programme of work it is undertaking to support employment and jobs in the City; 

(27)

welcomes that the present Administration continue to stand up for Sheffield, support and protect communities, focus on jobs and make the City business friendly;

(28)

welcomes the report of the Fairness Commission and the present Administration’s commitment to fairness;

(29)

acknowledges the challenges presented by the Fairness Commission in making Sheffield fairer and further welcomes the commitment of the present Administration to work with partners across the City to achieve this;

(30)

instructs the Executive Director, Resources to implement the City Council’s Revenue Budget and Capital Programme 2013/14;

(31)

approves those specific projects included in the 2012/13 to 2016/17 Capital Programme at Appendix 10 of the report on the Capital Programme 2013/14 to 2016/17 now submitted, with block allocations being included within the Programme for noting at this stage and detailed proposals will be brought back for separate Member approval as part of the monthly monitoring procedures;

(32)

notes the Capital Programme for the 5 years to 2016/17 as per Appendix 10 of the report on the Capital Programme;

(33)

approves the proposals at paragraph 18 of the report on the Capital Programme to address the current funding gap on Building Schools for the Future (BSF) and notes that progress will be monitored and reported to Members as part of the normal budget monitoring process;

(34)

approves the allocations from the Corporate Resource Pool and the policy outlined in Appendix 4 such that the commitment from the CRP is limited to one year and no CRP supported schemes are approved beyond 2013 -14, and if substantial capital receipts are realised within 2012-13 or 2013-14 a further report will be brought to Members as part of the monthly approval process;

(35)

approves the proposal at paragraph 33 of the report on the Capital Programme to incorporate all capital receipts arising from non charitable covenanted Parks into the CRP;

(36)

after noting the joint report of the Chief Executive and the Executive Director, Resources now submitted on the Revenue Budget 2013/14, approves and adopts a net Revenue Budget for 2013/14 amounting to £477.426m, as set out in Appendix 3 of that report, as follows:-

(37)

approves a Band D equivalent Council Tax of £1,282.75 for City Council services, i.e. at the same level as 2012/13;

(38)

approves the Revenue Budget allocations and Budget Implementation Plans for each of the services, as set out in Appendix 2 of the Revenue Budget report;

(39)

notes the latest 2012/13 budget monitoring position;

(40)

approves the Treasury Management and Annual Investment Strategies set out in Appendix 7 of the Revenue Budget reportand the recommendations contained therein;

(41)

approves the Minimum Revenue Provision (MRP) Statement set out in Appendix 7 of the Revenue Budget report;

(42)

agrees that authority be delegated to the Director of Finance to undertake Treasury Management activity, to create and amend appropriate Treasury Management Practice Statements and to report on the operation of Treasury Management activity on the terms set out in these documents;

(43)

agrees that interim authority to spend the Public Health ring-fenced grant be delegated to the Director of Public Health and Executive Directors, subject to a further report to the Cabinet in April 2013;

(44)

approves a Pay Policy for 2013/14 as set out in Appendix 8 of the Revenue Budget report;

(45)

agrees that the Members' Allowances Scheme approved by the Council on 3rd March, 2010 for 2010/11, and implemented for 2011/12 and 2012/13, be also implemented for 2013/14, pending a review of the Scheme being submitted to the Council's Annual General Meeting on 15th May, 2013;

(46)

gives approval for  the  Council Tax Discount  in respect of dwellings that are  unoccupied and substantially unfurnished, approved by the Council on 6^th February 2013 to be amended so that its reads;

“Empty unfurnished

In respect of a dwelling that falls within the class of dwellings described in regulation 7, of the Council Tax (Prescribed Classes of Dwelling) (England) Regulations 2003, that the empty dwelling discount shall apply at 10% for the 6 month period commencing on the date that the dwelling fell within the class. After the 6 month period has expired, the empty dwelling discount shall not apply in respect of the dwelling.

When considering whether a dwelling has been unoccupied for any period, any one period, not exceeding six weeks, during which it was occupied shall be disregarded.”

(47)

notes that, based on the estimated expenditure level of £477.426m set out in Appendix 3 of the Revenue Budget report, the amounts shown in part B below would be calculated by the City Council for the year 2013/14, in accordance with Sections 32 to 36 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992;

(48)

notes the precepts issued by local parish councils which add £477,553 to the calculation of the budget requirement in accordance with Sections 31 to 36 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992;

(49)

notes the information on the precepts issued by the South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner and the South Yorkshire Fire and Civil Defence Authority, together with the impact of these on the overall amount of Council Tax to be charged in the City Council’s area;

CITY OF SHEFFIELD

CALCULATION OF RECOMMENDED COUNCIL TAX FOR 2013/14 REVENUE BUDGET

The Council is recommended to resolve as follows:

1.

It be noted that on 15^th January 2013, the Council calculated the Council Tax Base 2013/14

(a)

for the whole Council area as:

128,050.05

(item T in the formula in Section 31B of the Local Government Finance Act 1992, as amended (the “Act”)); and

(b)

for dwellings in those parts of its area to which a Parish precept relates as in the attached Appendix 6c.

2.

Calculate that the Council Tax requirement for the Council’s own purposes for 2013/14 (excluding Parish precepts) is:

£

164,255,587

3.

That the following amounts be calculated for the year 2013/14 in accordance with Sections 31 to 36 of the Act:

(a)

£

1,468,420,140

being the aggregate of the amounts which the Council estimates for the items set out in Section 31A(2) of the Act taking into account all precepts issued to it by Parish Councils.

(b)

£

1,303,687,000

being the aggregate of the amounts which the Council estimates for the items set out in Section 31A(3) of the Act.

(c)

£

164,733,140

being the amount by which the aggregate at 3(a) above exceeds the aggregate at 3(b) above, calculated by the Council in accordance with Section 31(A)(4) of the Act as its Council Tax requirement for the year (Item R in the formula in Section 31B of the Act).

(d)

£

1,286.4746

being the amount at 3(c) above (Item R), all divided by Item T (1(a) above), calculated by the Council, in accordance with Section 31B of the Act, as the basic amount of its Council Tax for the year (including Parish Precepts).

(e)

£

477,553

being the aggregate amount of all special items (Parish precepts) referred to in Section 34(1) of the Act (as per the attached Appendix 6b).

(f)

£

1,282.7452

being the amount at 3(d) above less the result given by dividing the amount at 3(e) above by Item T (1(a) above), calculated by the Council, in accordance with Section 34(2) of the Act, as the basic amount of its Council Tax for the year for dwellings in those parts of its area to which no Parish precept relates.

4.

To note that the Police and Crime Commissioner for South Yorkshire and the South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Authority have issued precepts to the Council in accordance with Section 40 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 for each category of dwellings in the Council’s area as indicated in the table below.

5.

That the Council, in accordance with the Sections 30 and 36 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992, hereby sets the aggregate amounts shown in  the tables below as the amounts of Council Tax for 2013/14 for each part of its area and for each of the categories of dwellings.

Sheffield City Council (non-parish areas)

Valuation Band

Motion to move to next business

RESOLVED: On the Motion of Councillor Pat Midgley, seconded by Councillor David Baker that (in accordance with Council Procedure Rule 17.13) the Council does now move to the next item of business and that the question be now put.

On being put to the vote, the amendment was carried.

It was then moved by Councillor Simon Clement-Jones, seconded by Councillor Shaffaq Mohammed, as an amendment, that the recommendations of the Cabinet held on 13^th February, 2013, as relates to the City Council’s Revenue Budget and Capital Programme 2013/2014, be replaced by the following resolution:-

RESOLVED: That this Council:

(1)

regrets that as a result of the reckless spending of the previous Government, difficult decisions are required in all areas of public spending;

(2)

notes that the previous Government increased the national deficit year-on-year from 2001 onwards, reaching a total of £43 billion prior to the economic crash, to the point where £1 in every £4 the Government spent was borrowed;

(3)

reminds Members that the Labour Party pledged £82 billion worth of cuts by 2014, but have failed to provide any credible plans of where these cuts would have fallen;

(4)

however, remembers that the Labour Party have refused to commit to reversing any cut if elected, and therefore believes the Administration are displaying rank hypocrisy when refusing to accept responsibility for their own budget decisions;

(5)

furthermore, condemns the scare-mongering of Labour politicians, who have predicted a ‘post-soviet meltdown’ and riots in the streets of Sheffield;

(6)

compares this dangerous propaganda to the Council’s State of Sheffield 2013 Report, which clearly states, “It is widely argued that the look and feel of the city, and its quality of life and place has never been stronger for many people”;

(7)

highlights that while Sheffield will see a 3.9% reduction in its adjusted Formula Grant (including Early Intervention Grant and other funds), councils in the south of England will see much harsher reductions such as Wokingham on 5.6%, Guildford on 7.8%, East Dorset on 8.1% and Epsom & Ewell on 9.4%;

(8)

regrets the £25.3 million reduction taking place in Sheffield’s formula funding in 2013/14, yet notes that Sheffield will benefit from numerous sources of Government funding next year, including:

(i)

£6.5 million to help freeze Council Tax for hard-working families for a third consecutive year;

(ii)

£42.7 million for the second year of the Streets Ahead programme, which will see every road, pavement and streetlight in the City repaired;

(iii)

£10 million towards constructing a new University Technical College, to ensure the next generation of Sheffielders have the skills they need to help the City grow;

(iv)

£3.8 million to provide Free Early Learning for disadvantaged two-year-olds, rising to £5.4 million in 2014/15, in addition to another £18 million for Sheffield schools through the Pupil Premium;

(v)

millions of pounds invested in Sheffield’s trams, trains and buses, alongside commitments to electrify the Midland Mainline and a new High Speed Rail station in Sheffield; and

(vi)

ongoing support for the local economy, through the Local Enterprise Partnership and the region’s enterprise zone, which will generate 12,000 jobs for the local region;

(9)

in addition, welcomes the Sheffield City Deal, which places the City in the driving seat for growth and unlocks £700 million of investment for the City Region;

(10)

recalls the prudence of the previous Administration, whose 2011/12 budget generated a surplus of £6.2 million and contrasts this to the dithering incompetence of the present Administration, whose 2012/13 budget is currently running at a deficit of £1.2 million;

(11)

regrets, that despite promises to the contrary, the present Administration has returned to behaviour that is letting down the people of Sheffield, including;

(i)

rejecting significant investment from the Government, including funds to support the weekly collection of black bins and help those struggling to pay Council Tax;

(ii)

wasteful spending on pet projects, refurbishments of council accommodation, high-paid consultants and trade union officials;

(iii)

support for their widely discredited ‘favoured areas’ policy, which sees cherry-picked areas prioritised, while communities across Sheffield remain forgotten; and

(iv)

taking power away from local people and returning it into the hands of unaccountable Town Hall bureaucrats;

(12)

believes the present Administration’s mismanagement has been most aptly demonstrated by the shambolic roll-out of fortnightly bin collections, with an almost weekly outpouring of embarrassments, mistakes and blunders by a gaffe-prone Cabinet Member;

(13)

recalls the main opposition group’s 2012/13 budget amendment, which would have funded weekly bin collections long enough to secure Government cash towards the service and expresses disappointment that the Council rejected this Government offer of support;

(14)

notes that returning to weekly black bin collections would now cost the Council £9.2 million and confirms that this would not be an equitable option;

(15)

however, believes that a fairer budget can be delivered, and front-line services and jobs can be protected, by investigating sensible saving decisions, such as;

(i)

reducing budgets for Trade Unions officials, which have been consistently protected to the detriment of front-line services;

(ii)

reducing posts in communications, policy and research, political support and performance, instead of front-line staff;

(iii)

sharing services between councils and trusts, improving enforcement of fines and eliminating costly “pet projects”;

(iv)

a small reduction in pay for the top 25% of earners in the Council, to produce a more equal structure and protect low-paid jobs such as care workers;

(v)

use of allocated reserves such as the Local Growth Fund, the Keep Sheffield Working Fund and the Fairness Commission Fund; and

(vi)

re-prioritising millions of pounds previously earmarked for “Town Hall meeting rooms”, since re-titled “city centre civic accommodation”,  to ensure taxpayers’ money is being spent effectively;

(16)

confirms that by agreeing these savings, the Council could continue to provide the front-line services that local people care most about, such as;

(i)

supporting families who are struggling with fortnightly bin collections by slashing the cost of green waste recycling and increasing opening hours at local recycling centres;

(ii)

ensuring that culture is maintained in the City, by refusing to close a single library and retaining sports centres, like Don Valley Stadium, Graves Pool, and Stocksbridge Leisure Centre;

(iii)

protecting Sheffield’s green and open spaces, by investing in park maintenance, outdoor education and saving local public toilets;

(iv)

assisting local businesses by investing in local centres, providing free parking on Saturdays at local centres and reinstating free Christmas parking;

(v)

helping the most vulnerable in our City by supporting local children’s centres through a period of change, keeping open a local dementia care centre and tackling empty homes to ensure housing is available across the City;

(vi)

allowing local people and community groups to have their say by retaining popular community assemblies, increasing community funding and providing a local transport fund for assemblies;

(17)

furthermore, recalls the debate on the 23^rd January 2013 on Council Tax Support and confirms that, not only is Transitional Funding no longer available, the scheme cannot legally be amended, yet nevertheless recommends that the hardship fund is doubled;

(18)

therefore instructs the Executive Director, Resources to implement the general fund revenue budget and the capital programme with the following amendments:-

(19)

believes the £2.2 million earmarked for City Centre Civic Accommodation is not necessary and should be reviewed again by the Cabinet before any implementation;

(20)

approves those specific projects included in the 2012/13 to 2016/17 Capital Programme at Appendix 10 of the report on the Capital Programme 2013/14 to 2016/17 now submitted, subject to the amendments outlined in paragraph (18) above, with block allocations being included within the Programme for noting at this stage and detailed proposals will be brought back for separate Member approval as part of the monthly monitoring procedures;

(21)

notes the Capital Programme for the 5 years to 2016/17 as per Appendix 10 of the report on the Capital Programme subject to the amendments outlined in paragraph (18) above;

(22)

approves the proposals at paragraph 18 of the report on the Capital Programme to address the current funding gap on Building Schools for the Future (BSF) and notes that progress will be monitored and reported to Members as part of the normal budget monitoring process;

(23)

approves the allocations from the Corporate Resource Pool and the policy outlined in Appendix 4 such that the commitment from the CRP is limited to one year and no CRP supported schemes are approved beyond 2013 -14, and if substantial capital receipts are realised within 2012-13 or 2013-14 a further report will be brought to Members as part of the monthly approval process;

(24)

approves the proposal at paragraph 33 of the report on the Capital Programme to incorporate all capital receipts arising from non charitable covenanted Parks into the CRP;

(25)

after noting the joint report of the Chief Executive and the Executive Director, Resources now submitted on the Revenue Budget 2013/14, approves and adopts a net Revenue Budget for 2013/14 amounting to £477.426m, as set out in Appendix 3 of that report, and subsequently amended in the light of paragraph (18) above, as follows:-

(26)

approves a Band D equivalent Council Tax of £1,282.75 for City Council services, i.e. at the same level as 2012/13;

(27)

approves the Revenue Budget allocations and Budget Implementation Plans for each of the services, as set out in Appendix 2 of the Revenue Budget report, subject to the amendments outlined in paragraph (18) above;

(28)

notes the latest 2012/13 budget monitoring position;

(29)

approves the Treasury Management and Annual Investment Strategies set out in Appendix 7 of the Revenue Budget reportand the recommendations contained therein;

(30)

approves the Minimum Revenue Provision (MRP) Statement set out in Appendix 7 of the Revenue Budget report;

(31)

agrees that authority be delegated to the Director of Finance to undertake Treasury Management activity, to create and amend appropriate Treasury Management Practice Statements and to report on the operation of Treasury Management activity on the terms set out in these documents;

(32)

agrees that interim authority to spend the Public Health ring-fenced grant be delegated to the Director of Public Health and Executive Directors, subject to a further report to the Cabinet in April 2013;

(33)

approves a Pay Policy for 2013/14 as set out in Appendix 8 of the Revenue Budget report;

(34)

agrees that the Members' Allowances Scheme approved by the Council on 3rd March, 2010 for 2010/11, and implemented for 2011/12 and 2012/13, be also implemented for 2013/14, pending a review of the Scheme being submitted to the Council's Annual General Meeting on 15th May, 2013;

(35)

notes that, based on the estimated expenditure level of £477.426m set out in Appendix 3 of the Revenue Budget report, the amounts shown in part B below would be calculated by the City Council for the year 2013/14, in accordance with Sections 32 to 36 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992;

(36)

notes the precepts issued by local parish councils which add £477,553 to the calculation of the budget requirement in accordance with Sections 31 to 36 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992;

(37)

notes the information on the precepts issued by the South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner and the South Yorkshire Fire and Civil Defence Authority, together with the impact of these on the overall amount of Council Tax to be charged in the City Council’s area;

CITY OF SHEFFIELD

CALCULATION OF RECOMMENDED COUNCIL TAX FOR 2013/14 REVENUE BUDGET

The Council is recommended to resolve as follows:

1.

It be noted that on 15^th January 2013, the Council calculated the Council Tax Base 2013/14

(a)

for the whole Council area as:

128,050.05

(item T in the formula in Section 31B of the Local Government Finance Act 1992, as amended (the “Act”)); and

(b)

for dwellings in those parts of its area to which a Parish precept relates as in the attached Appendix 6c.

2.

Calculate that the Council Tax requirement for the Council’s own purposes for 2013/14 (excluding Parish precepts) is:

£

164,255,587

3.

That the following amounts be calculated for the year 2013/14 in accordance with Sections 31 to 36 of the Act:

(a)

£

1,468,420,140

being the aggregate of the amounts which the Council estimates for the items set out in Section 31A(2) of the Act taking into account all precepts issued to it by Parish Councils.

(b)

£

1,303,687,000

being the aggregate of the amounts which the Council estimates for the items set out in Section 31A(3) of the Act.

(c)

£

164,733,140

being the amount by which the aggregate at 3(a) above exceeds the aggregate at 3(b) above, calculated by the Council in accordance with Section 31(A)4) of the Act as its Council Tax requirement for the year (Item R in the formula in Section 31B of the Act).

(d)

£

1,286.4746

being the amount at 3(c) above (Item R), all divided by Item T (1(a) above), calculated by the Council, in accordance with Section 31B of the Act, as the basic amount of its Council Tax for the year (including Parish Precepts).

(e)

£

477,553

being the aggregate amount of all special items (Parish precepts) referred to in Section 34(1) of the Act (as per the attached Appendix 6b).

(f)

£

1,282.7452

being the amount at 3(d) above less the result given by dividing the amount at 3(e) above by Item T (1(a) above), calculated by the Council, in accordance with Section 34(2) of the Act, as the basic amount of its Council Tax for the year for dwellings in those parts of its area to which no Parish precept relates.

4.

To note that the Police and Crime Commissioner for South Yorkshire and the South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Authority have issued precepts to the Council in accordance with Section 40 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 for each category of dwellings in the Council’s area as indicated in the table below.

5.

That the Council, in accordance with the Sections 30 and 36 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992, hereby sets the aggregate amounts shown in  the tables below as the amounts of Council Tax for 2013/14 for each part of its area and for each of the categories of dwellings.

Sheffield City Council (non-parish areas)

Valuation Band

Motion to move to next business

RESOLVED: On the Motion of Councillor Pat Midgley, seconded by Councillor Shaffaq Mohammed that (a) (in accordance with Council Procedure Rule 17.13) the Council does now move to the next item of business and that the question be now put and (b) Council Procedure Rule 5.5 relating to the time at which the meeting will terminate, be suspended so that the meeting could continue until 6.45pm.)

On being put to the vote, the amendment was negatived.

The votes on the above amendment were ordered to be recorded and were as follows:-

For the amendment (18)

The Deputy Lord Mayor (Councillor Vickie Priestley) and Councillors Simon Clement Jones, Shaffaq Mohammed, , Sylvia Anginotti, Rob Frost, Keith Hill, Diana Stimely, Penny Baker, Roger Davison, Sue Alston, Andrew Sangar, Denise Reaney, Ian Auckland, Bob McCann, David Baker, Katie Condliffe Alison Brelsford and Trevor Bagshaw.

Against the amendment

(59)

The Lord Mayor (Councillor John Campbell) and Councillors Julie Dore, John Robson, Jack Scott, Clive Skelton, Roy Munn, Ian Saunders, Helen Mirfin Boukouris, Chris Rosling Josephs, Bryan Lodge, Denise Fox, Karen McGowan, Jayne Dunn, Jackie Drayton, Ibrar Hussain, Talib Hussain, Mohammad Maroof, Jillian Creasy, Robert Murphy, Geoff Smith, Mary Lea, Harry Harpham, Mazher Iqbal, Steven Wilson, Garry Weatherall, Sheila Constance, Chris Weldon, Alan Law, Steve Jones, Tim Rippon, Cate McDonald, George Lindars Hammond, Robert Johnson, Janet Bragg, Pat Midgley, Jenny Armstrong, Terry Fox, Tony Downing, David Barker, Isobel Bowler, Qurban Hussain, Nikki Bond, Martin Lawton, Sioned Mair Richards, Peter Price, Peter Rippon, Leigh Bramall, Tony Damms, Gill Furniss, Richard Crowther, Philip Wood, Neale Gibson, Nikki Sharpe, Ben Curran, Adam Hurst, Alf Meade, Jackie Satur, Mick Rooney and Ray Satur.

Abstained on the

amendment (0)

Nil

It was then moved by Councillor Jillian Creasy, seconded by Councillor Robert Murphy, as an amendment, that the recommendations of the Cabinet held on 13^th February, 2013, as relates to the City Council's Revenue Budget and Capital Programme 2013/2014, be replaced by the following resolution:-

RESOLVED: That this Council: