To receive Report No. 153/2015 from the Director for Resources.

(Previously circulated under separate cover)

Report No. 153/2015 from the Director for Resources was received, the purpose of which was to inform the panel of the full year forecast position as at Quarter 1 for 2015/16 and to provide an update on the status of the 2015/16 budget and accompanying recommendations, which would be presented to Council for approval on 14 September 2015.

During the discussion the following points were noted:

     i.          The panel were concerned that this report has come to them after going to Cabinet and to that extent their views would not be taken into consideration;

    ii.          The Portfolio Holder confirmed that Cabinet are willing to take individual comments or questions;

  iii.          Q2 and Q3 reports will be going to Resources Scrutiny Panel before Cabinet;

Concerns were raised over whether other scrutiny panels would get the opportunity to raise comments on future quarterly reports before they go to Cabinet. It was agreed that if other scrutiny panels wanted to comment on the quarterly reports they could attend the Resources Scrutiny meeting as non-panel members to raise those comments/concerns.

AGREED:

1)    That the panel noted the contents of Report No. 153 /2015.