Decision details

Capital & Revenue Estimates, Council Tax & Prudential Indicators (Cabinet, 12 February 2009)

Decision Maker: Staffing Portfolio Holder, Cabinet, Council

Decision status: Recommendations approved

Is Key decision?: Yes

Is subject to call in?: No

Decision:

Council RESOLVED:

 

(a)               That the capital programme (Appendix A to the Cabinet report) up to the year ending 31st March 2012 be approved as submitted which includes an additional £400,000 for disabled adaptations to be financed from the Housing Revenue Account;

 

(b)               That the further revised revenue estimates for the year 2008/09 and the revenue estimates for 2009/10 be approved as submitted in the General Fund summary (amended Appendix B tabled at the meeting and attached);

 

(c)               That the Medium Term Financial Strategy (amended Appendix C tabled at the meeting and attached) be approved based on the assumptions set out in the report,

 

(d)               To note that amended appendices B-C no longer include appropriations from the Building Control reserve as the use of this reserve is currently being discussed with the Council’s external auditors; this exclusion, and the amended Council Tax increase of 4.5% over the period of the Medium Term Financial Strategy results in an increase in the Efficiency and other savings targets from £250,000 to £325,000.

 

(e)               That the Chief Executive be given delegated authority to authorise expenditure up to the sum of £51,015 on the benefits service, to be financed by additional government grant;

 

(f)                 That the approval of Senior Management Team to start the recruitment process for posts which are /will be vacant, be re-established;

 

(g)               That the District Council demand for general expenses for 2009/10 be £6,530,100;

 

(h)               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 £112.10 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 (see below);

 

(i)                  That the prudential indicators in Appendix E to the Cabinet report be approved; and

 

(j)                  That the list of precautionary items (Appendix D to the Cabinet report) to be used under delegated powers already given to the Finance Portfolio Holder and the Chief Executive be approved. 

 

FURTHER TO RESOLUTION (h) ABOVE, COUNCIL RESOLVED THAT THE FOLLOWING STATUTORY RESOLUTION IN RESPECT OF THE COUNCIL TAX FOR 2009-10 BE AGREED:

 

That the following amounts be now calculated by the Council for the year 2009-10 in accordance with Sections 32 to 36 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992:

 

(a)

£76,493,286

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)

£58,727,460

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)

£17,765,826

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 £14,258,000 and the parish precepts of £3,532,876

(d)

£7,702,850

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)

£172.75

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)

£3,532,876

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

(g)

£112.10

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 below

(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 below and Appendix D attached

(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 below and Appendix D attached.

 

That it be noted that for the year 2009-10 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:         

 

Band

Band

Band

Band

Band

Band

Band

Band

 Table 1

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

 

£

£

£

£

£

£

£

£

County Council

678.18

791.21

904.24

1,017.27

1,243.33

1,469.39

1,695.45

2,034.54

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Police Authority

   109.80

   128.10

   146.40

   164.70

   201.30

   237.90

   274.50

   329.40

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

District Council

74.73

87.19

99.64

112.10

137.01

161.92

186.83

224.20

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fire Authority

  37.56

  43.82

  50.08

     56.34

     68.86

     81.38

     93.90

   112.68

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

             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 E attached as the amounts of council tax for the year 2009-10 for each of the categories of dwellings shown in Appendix E attached.

Publication date: 14/02/2009

Date of decision: 26/02/2009

Decided at meeting: 26/02/2009 - Council

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