Venue: Meeting Room 1, Abbey House, Abbey Close, Abingdon, OX14 3JE
Contact: Democratic Services
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Chair's announcements To receive any announcements from the chair. Minutes: The chair welcomed everyone to the meeting and outlined the procedure to be followed. She provided an update in light of the recent local government reorganisation announcement confirming that she had written to the leader of Oxfordshire County Council requesting that she write to the Secretary of State expressing a desire to move forward with devolution and reorganisation in Oxfordshire. The chair went on to confirm she had met with all but one of the other Oxfordshire council leaders and noted that a meeting the day before with West Berkshire District Council leader had been constructive. |
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Apologies for absence To record apologies for absence. Minutes: Apologies for absence were received from Councillors Lucy Edwards and Andy Foulsham. Councillor Sue Caul joined the meeting online. |
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To adopt and sign as a correct record the minutes of the Cabinet meeting held on 29 November 2024. Minutes: RESOLVED: to approve the minutes of the meeting held on 29 November 2024 as a correct record and agree that the Chair sign them as such. |
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Declarations of interests To receive declarations of disclosable pecuniary interests, other registrable interests and non-registrable interests or any conflicts of interest in respect of items on the agenda for this meeting. Minutes: None. |
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Urgent business To receive notification of any matters which the chair determines should be considered as urgent business and the special circumstances which have made the matters urgent. Minutes: None. |
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Public participation To receive any questions or statements from members of the public that have registered to speak. Minutes: None. |
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Recommendations and updates from other committees To consider the attached paper, being the recommendations and updates from other committees to Cabinet. Minutes: None. |
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Q2 budget monitoring report To consider the report of the head of finance. Minutes: Cabinet received the Q2 budget monitoring report from the head of finance. The report provided Cabinet with an update on the revenue and capital expenditure outturns for March 2025 as forecasted by head of service. Cabinet were asked to note the contents of the report.
The Cabinet member for finance and property, Councillor Andrew Crawford, introduced the report and highlighted that the net revenue budget had been agreed in February 2024 but that this had been increased since to £23.172 million as a result of carry forward of unspent one off project budgets.
Cabinet asked for confirmation of the figure in paragraph 6 of the report which showed the underspend as £1.8 million. The head of finance confirmed that this figure should read £1.3 million underspend.
RESOLVED: to note the report |
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Budget setting 2025/26 update To consider the report of the head of finance informing the Cabinet of progress made to date in preparing the proposed revenue budget for 2025/26 and the capital programme for 2025/26 to 2029/30, and to report on the funding issues that need to be considered when Council sets a revenue budget and capital programme in February 2025.
Report to follow. Additional documents:
Minutes: Cabinet received the budget setting 2025/26 update report, from the head of finance. The report provided Cabinet with an update of the progress made to date in preparing the proposed revenue budget for 2025/26 and the capital programme for 2025/26 to 2029/30. It also reported on the funding issues that needed to be considered when Council sets a revenue budget and capital programme in February 2025. Cabinet were asked to note the report.
The Cabinet member for finance and property introduced the report and informed Cabinet that the report built on the budget scene setting they received in October. Apologies were expressed for the late publication of the report. The Cabinet member confirmed that the member budget challenge was well underway and would be complete by Christmas. He informed Cabinet that officers were reporting a broadly balanced budget. It was confirmed that the draft settlement from the government was still awaited but that the Local Government Finance Policy Statement had advised no council would see a reduction on “Core Revenue Spending Power. It was reflected there would be an expectation to increase council tax. The Cabinet member for finance and property confirmed that growth bids were included in the report.
Cabinet asked for confirmation that officers were content with the budgeted £400,000 contingency. The head of finance confirmed he was content with this amount.
Cabinet thanked officers for their work on the report and in the work that goes into setting the budget.
RESOLVED: to note the report. |
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