Agenda and decisions

To receive any apologies

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To receive declarations of interest from Members in accordance with the Code of Conduct.

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To receive any questions or deputations.

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RESOLVED:
The Cabinet Member for Resources and Delivering Value approved the allocation of £40,000 to support the procurement of the Civica/PCI Pal telephone card payment solution from Civica UK Limited in order that the Council can meet its obligations under the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) from the Capital ICT Projects Programme.

The purpose of the report is to inform the Cabinet Member:

Ø  Of the Portfolio’s latest forecast financial position as at the 30th September 2018 against Revenue and Capital budgets as detailed in Appendix A;

Ø  Of the Portfolio’s progress against the latest 3 year savings targets in the Medium Term Financial Strategy (MTFS) as detailed in Appendix A;

Ø  Of the Portfolio’s emerging pressures and proposed mitigations within the period of the current MTFS; and

Ø  Of the latest prudential borrowing indicators and investment benchmarking for the Council.

RESOLVED:

The Cabinet Member for Resources and Delivering Value:

(i)  Noted the 2018/19 Revenue and Capital financial monitoring forecast;

(ii)  Noted the portfolio’s progress against the latest 3 year savings targets in the MTFS as at 30th September 2018;

(iii)  Noted the portfolio’s emerging pressures and confirmed he was content with the proposed mitigations within the period of the current MTFS.

RESOLVED:

 The Cabinet Member for Resources and Delivering Value:

(i)  noted the outstanding levels of debt as at 30 September 2018;

(ii)  noted the level and value of debts under £10,000 authorised for write off by the Director of Resources and Deputy Chief Executive between 1 July 2018 and 30 September 2018;

(iii)   approved the write off of Business Rates and Sundry Income debt over £10,000 totalling £26,701.94 as detailed in the private appendix;

(iv)  approved the recommendation to commence insolvency action for further business rate debts; and

(v)  Noted the insolvency trial and approved the recommendation to continue to use insolvency practitioners when appropriate to recover all debt owed to the Council.

The meeting is likely not to be open to the public during discussion of the following items because the reports contain exempt information as defined in Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972.

RESOLVED:

That, pursuant to Section 100A (4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the press and public be now excluded from the meeting for the remainder of the business to be transacted, on the grounds that there would be disclosure to them of exempt information in terms of paragraphs 3 and 7 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the said Act.

The appendices relate to item 6 on the agenda.