Decision details
Q1 Budget Monitoring Report
Decision Maker: Chief Executive Officer
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
Decision:
The Chief Executive Officer considered the Q1
Budget Monitoring Report presented at the informal meeting of
Executive Members held on 31 August 2021. Having taken account of
the comments made by Executive Members and all relevant information
provided at the meeting, he:
i. approved the creation of the Local Government Review transition
fund (paragraphs 2.5.1 to 2.5.7)
ii. approved the amendments to the Approved Lending List
iii. referred the Q1 report to the Audit Committee for their
consideration as part of the overall monitoring arrangements for
Treasury Management.
iv. approved the refreshed Capital Plan summarised at paragraph
4.2.3 of the report
v. agreed that no action be taken at this stage to allocate any
additional capital resources
vi. agreed to recommend to the County Council that it approve the
revised Prudential Indicators for the period 2021/22 to 2023/24 as
set out in Appendix A of the report
Reasons for the decision:
Under his delegated decision making powers in
the Officers’ Delegation Scheme in the Council’s
Constitution, the Chief Executive Officer has power, in cases of
emergency, to take any decision which could be taken by the
Council, the Executive or a committee.
Following on from the expiry of the Local Authorities and Police
and Crime Panels (Coronavirus) (Flexibility of Local Authority and
Police and Crime Panel Meetings) (England and Wales) Regulations
2020 (“the 2020 Regulations”), which allowed for
committee meetings to be held remotely, the County Council resolved
at its meeting on 5 May 2021 that, for the present time, in light
of the continuing Covid-19 pandemic circumstances, remote
live-broadcast committee meetings should continue (as informal
meetings of the Committee Members), with any formal decisions
required being taken by the Chief Executive Officer under his
emergency decision making powers and after consultation with other
Officers and Members as appropriate and after taking into account
any views of the relevant Committee Members and all relevant
information. This approach was reviewed in July and will be further
reviewed in September 2021.
The Chief Executive Officer took all relevant information into
account in exercising his emergency delegated powers in this
matter, including considering the views of the Executive Members
and made the decisions set out above for the reasons set out in the
body of the report – see: Executive Agenda 31 August
2021.
Alternative options considered:
N/A.
Publication date: 14/09/2021
Date of decision: 14/09/2021