Issue - meetings

The Budget proposals were introduced by the Mayor who thanked staff across

all Directorates for their help in compiling the Budget. The Mayor confirmed

that he was proposing a Council Tax rise of 1.99%, which was the maximum

allowed without having to conduct a Local Referendum, but to that had to be

added the Governments mandatory additional 3.0% precept which was being

promoted as an answer to a perceived crisis in adult social care funding. The

Mayor said he felt the Government’s gesture was inadequate and the great

and escalating funding gap for adult social care needed to be addressed

properly at a national level.

The Mayor confirmed that he did not intend to vary the budget proposals he

had already fully set out at Mayor and Cabinet on February 8 and 15 and

which did not require further amendment following the very late notification of

the Local Government Finance Settlement earlier in the day.

A motion that the proposals be accepted was moved by the Cabinet Member

for Resources, Councillor Kevin Bonavia and seconded by Councillor Alan

Hall. There was then a general debate to which Councillor Coughlin,

contributed followed by a reply from Councillor Bonavia. During this general

debate on the budget the 5 minute limit on speeches for the Mayor and

Councillors Bonavia, Hall and Coughlin was suspended.

Once the debate was concluded, there was, in accordance with statutory

provisions, a recorded vote on the Mayor’s proposed Budget. The result of the

vote was as follows:

46 Votes In favour of the Mayor’s Budget Proposals

Councillor Obajimi Adefiranye

Councillor Abdeslam Amrani

Councillor Chris Barnham

Councillor P Bernhards

Councillor Chris Best

Councillor Kevin Bonavia

Councillor Bill Brown

Mayor Steve Bullock

Councillor Suzannah Clarke

Councillor John Coughlin

Councillor Liam Curran

Councillor Janet Daby

Councillor Brenda Dacres

Councillor Amanda De Ryk

Councillor Joe Dromey

Councillor Damien Egan

Councillor Colin Elliott

Councillor Alan Hall

Councillor Carl Handley

Councillor Maja Hilton

Councillor Simon Hooks

Councillor Sue Hordijenko

Councillor Mark Ingleby

Councillor Joyce Jacca

Councillor Stella Jeffrey

Councillor Liz Johnston-Franklin

Councillor Roy Kennedy

Councillor Helen Klier

Councillor Jim Mallory

Councillor Sophie McGeevor

Councillor David Michael

Councillor Joan Millbank

Councillor Hilary Moore

Councillor Pauline Morrison

Councillor John Muldoon

Councillor Rachel Onikosi

Councillor Jacq Paschoud

Councillor John Paschoud

Councillor Pat Raven

Councillor Jonathan Slater

Councillor Alan Smith

Councillor Luke Sorba

Councillor Eva Stamirowski

Councillor Alan Till

Councillor James-J Walsh

Councillor Susan Wise

Votes Against the Mayor’s Budget Proposals nil

Abstentions nil

RESOLVED that:

(1) Council approves the recommendations shown below in respect of the

2017/18 Budget and notes the Mayor made no amendments after considering

the 2017/18 Budget update report on 15 February 2017;

Capital Programme

(2) the 2016/17 Quarter 3 Capital Programme monitoring position and the

Capital Programme potential future schemes and resources as set out in

section 5 be noted;

(3) the 2017/18 to 2020/21 Capital Programme of £336.6m be approved, as

set out in section 5 and attached at Appendices W1 and W2;

(4) debt totalling £282,759.34 be written off related to  ...  view the full minutes text for item 63