Issue - meetings

Councillor Patel submits a report explaining the process by which the Council’s 2002/03 base budget is being prepared and summarising the principles supporting this process.  The Cabinet is asked to endorse the framework, subject to any changes it wishes to make following scrutiny committee and approve the cash limits for departments.

Councillor Patel submitted a report explaining the process by which the Council’s 2002/03 base budget was being prepared and summarising the principles supporting this process.  The Cabinet was asked to endorse the framework and approve the cash limits for departments.  It was noted that the Finance, Resources and Equal Opportunites Scrutiny Committee had endorsed the report.

RESOLVED:

(1)that the framework for base budget preparation, be endorsed; and

(2)that the cash limits for each department, be approved.