Agenda and minutes

Apologies for absence were received from Councillor J Davies, Councillor K Gibbs, Councillor G Lewis, Councillor D Roberts, Councillor J Thomas, S Eriksen, H Jackson and G Thomas Lay / Co-opted Member and Councillor A Barry Cabinet Member.

Members are reminded of their personal responsibility to declare any personal and prejudicial interest in respect of matters contained in this agenda in accordance with the provisions of the Local Government and Finance Act 1992 relating to Council Tax, the Local Government Act 2000, the Council’s Constitution and the Members Code of Conduct

Note:

(a)  Members are reminded that they must identify the item number and subject matter that their interest relates to and signify the nature of the personal interest and

(b)  Where Members withdraw from a Meeting as a consequence of the disclosure of a prejudicial interest they must notify the Chair when they leave

No Declarations of Interest were made.

The Chair advised that there was no other business deemed urgent.

Resolved that:

The public be excluded from the Meeting on the grounds that it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Paragraph/s 13 and 14 under Part 4 of Schedule 12A Section 100 (A) (4) of the Local Government Act 1972.

To consider report of the Chief Executive

The Chair welcomed all parties to the Meeting.

Steve Jones then led the Committee through the ‘Revenue Budget 2023/24 – Transformation Programme – Phase 2’ report and the Appendices and advised that Paragraph 5.5 of the report together with Appendix 3 was being excluded and gave details of the revised figures.

Questions were then raised by the Committee on the report and the Appendices and were responded to in detail by the Officers.

Comments were also made by the Committee on the report and the Appendices.

The Chair then thanked all parties for attending and for the Comments and Questions that had been raised together with the responses of the Officers.