Decision details

Capital & Revenue Estimates, Council Tax, Prudential Indicators & Review of Medium Term Financial Strategy 2010/11 (Cabinet, 11 February 2010)

Decision Maker: Cabinet, Council

Decision status: Recommendations approved

Is Key decision?: Yes

Is subject to call in?: No

Purpose:

See also Future Savings Proposals and Review of Medium Term Financial Strategy 2010/11. 

Decision:

Council RESOLVED

(a)               that the capital programme and the associated funding up to the year ending 31 March 2015 be approved as submitted;

(b)               that the revised revenue estimates for the year 2009/10 and the revenue estimates for 2010/11 be approved as submitted in the General Fund summary;

(c)               that the Medium Term Financial Strategy be approved based on the assumptions set out in the report to Cabinet;

(d)               that the District Council demand for general expenses for 2010/11 be £6,827,780;

(e)               that the Council sets the amount of Council Tax for each of the relevant categories of dwelling in accordance with Section 30(2) of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 on the basis of a District Council Tax for general expenses on a Band D property of £115.46 plus the relevant amounts required by the precepts of Parish Councils, Cambridgeshire County Council and the Cambridgeshire Police and Fire Authorities, details of those precepts and their effect to be circulated with the formal resolution required at the Council meeting; and

(f)                 that the prudential indicators be approved.

 

FURTHER TO RECOMMENDATION (e) ABOVE, COUNCILRESOLVED THAT THE FOLLOWING STATUTORY RESOLUTION IN RESPECT OF THE COUNCIL TAX FOR 2010-11:

That the following amounts be now calculated by the Council for the year 2010-11 in accordance with Sections 32 to 36 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992:

(a)

£77,673,630

being the aggregate of the amounts which the Council estimates for the items set out in Section 32(2)(a) to (e) of the Act (gross expenditure including parish precepts, the Housing Revenue Account and additions to reserves)

 

(b)

£59,357,450

being the aggregate of the amounts which the Council estimates for the items set out in Section 32(3)(a) to (c) of the Act (gross income including the Housing Revenue Account and use of reserves)

 

(c)

£18,316,180

being the amount by which the aggregate at (a) above exceeds the aggregate at (b) above, calculated by the Council, in accordance with Section 32(4) of the Act, as its budget requirement for the year (net expenditure) being the district amount of £14,660,800 and the parish precepts of £3,655,380

 

(d)

£7,833,020

being the aggregate of the sums which the Council estimates will be payable for the year into its general fund in respect of formula grant increased/decreased by the amount of the sums which the Council estimates will be transferred in the year from/to its collection fund to/from its general fund in accordance with Section 97(3)(Council Tax transactions) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988

 

(e)

£177.27

being the amount calculated by the Council, in accordance with Section 33(1) of the Act, as the basic amount of its council tax for the year (average Council Tax for a band D property for the District including parishes)

 

(f)

£3,655,380

being the aggregate amount of all special items referred to in Section 34(1) of the Act (parish precepts)

 

(g)

£115.46

being the amount 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 special item relates (average Council Tax for a Band D property for the District excluding parishes), the amounts being for each of the categories of dwellings shown below in Table 1

 

(h)

In accordance with Section 34(3) of the Act, the basic amounts of council tax for the year for dwellings in those parts of its area to which a special item relates are shown by adding the amounts for band D for the District Council in Table 1 and Appendix A

 

(i)

In accordance with Section 36(1) of the Act, the amounts to be taken into account for the year in respect of categories of dwellings listed in different valuation bands are shown by adding the amounts for each band in Table 1 and Appendix A.

 

That it be noted that for the year 2010-11 the Cambridgeshire County Council and the Cambridgeshire Police Authority and Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Fire Authorities have stated the following amounts in precepts issued to the Council, in accordance with Section 40 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992, for each of the categories of dwellings as shown in Table 1:

Table 1

Band

A

£

Band

B

£

Band

C

£

Band

D

£

Band

E

£

Band

F

£

Band

G

£

Band

H

£

County Council

698.52

814.94

931.36

1,047.78

1,280.62

1,513.46

1,746.30

2,095.56

Police Authority

113.04

131.88

150.72

169.56

207.24

244.92

282.60

339.12

District Council

76.97

89.80

102.63

115.46

141.12

166.78

192.43

230.92

Fire Authority

38.58

45.01

51.44

57.87

70.73

83.59

96.45

115.74

and

(j)

That the Council, in accordance with Section 30(2) of the Local Government Finance Act 1992, hereby sets the amounts set out in Appendix B as the amounts of council tax for the year 2010-11 for each of the categories of dwellings shown in Appendix B.

Publication date: 26/02/2010

Date of decision: 25/02/2010

Decided at meeting: 25/02/2010 - Council

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