Agenda item

Report of the Senior Leadership Team on behalf of Leader of the Council.

The Deputy Chief Executive introduced the proposed 2019/20 general fund budget. The Director of Organisational Development and Democratic Services gave an overview of the Gedling Plan for 2019/20 and summarised a number of key points.

RESOLVED to:

1)    Approve a 3% discretionary income inflation increase for the individual portfolios as shown in the table at paragraph 3.5.5 of the report; and

2)    To recommend to Council on 4 March 2019:

a)    That the financial threshold above which decisions will be regarded as Key Decisions be set at £0.5m for 2019/20;

b)    A Council Tax increase of 0% which balances the financing of a Net Council Tax Requirement of £6,034,700 in 2019/20;

c)    That the detailed budget for 2019/20, as detailed in Appendix 3 of the report is approved; and

d)    That the Gedling Plan circulated as Appendix 1 to the report, is approved subject to final typographical and design changes to be done prior to publication.