(a)

an additional borrowing requirement of £10m was being sought for regeneration initiatives;

(b)

it was anticipated that 170 people would be leaving the Council under the Enhanced Voluntary Release Scheme this year and that since April 2012 the headcount had been reduced from4158 to 2781 as at October 2015, of which 764 staff had transferred to other undertakings under the TUPE provisions;

(b)

Councillor Lowry hoped to recommend a freeze of the Council tax for 2016/17 to Cabinet but that the recommendation would depend on the Autumn Statement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer;

(c) 

there were concerns about -

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the impact of any changes to the working family tax credit which could increase both support required under the Council Tax Support Scheme and Council tax arrears;

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the loss of Police Community Support Officers and the impact on anti-social behaviour and vandalism which could put further pressures on the Council’s resources.  

(1)

that the currentrevenuemonitoringposition andaction plansin place to reduce/mitigateshortfalls are noted; 

(2)

the non-delegatedrevenuebudgetvirements(shownin Table4); 

(3) 

that the new schemesaddedto theCapitalProgrammetotalling£1.063m are noted (as shownin Table6);

(4)

further to recommendation (3) in minute 51 above, the investigations to include the impact of the proposals on communities and also consider any changes of the working family tax credits having regard to other welfare reform cuts with the outcome to be reported as part of the draft budget report.