Decision Maker: City Mayor (Individual Decision)
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Purpose:
To approve a number of budget savings in
advance of the 2024/25 budget.
Decision:
This
decision has been Called-In under Rule 12 of Part 4D of the
Council’s Constitution and no further legally binding action
will be taken on this decision until the Call-In has been
addressed.
To approve the
reductions to budgets described in Appendix A and delegate
authority to the Director of Finance to determine the specific
budget ceilings affected; and for the in-year underspend to be
transferred to the Managed Reserve Strategy
Reasons for the decision:
The City Mayor and
Overview Select Committee receive a report on the forecast revenue
budget position regularly throughout the year. This savings report
reflects decisions taken by directors and will allow budget
ceilings to be amended and reflected in the budget for 2024/25.
Alternative options:
Publication date: 16/11/2023
Date of decision: 24/11/2023
Effective from: 02/12/2023
This decision has been called in by:
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Councillor Patrick Kitterick who writes We the undersigned wish to "Call In" the parts of the Executive Decision in regard to cuts in budgets {Headlined BUDGET SAVINGS}.
We are content for some of the savings to be agreed but have concerns about the following matters and their impact on the people of Leicester
Restructuring of the provision of Waste Services 0 75 75
Reduced expenditure on Parks & Open Spaces 30 339 339
Efficiency savings within Regulatory Services 0 113 113
Additional income within Bereavement & EBS 0 127 194
Efficiency Savings from Street Cleansing 0 90 180
In particular we note that none of these cuts appear to have been examined by the relevant Scrutiny Committee
In terms of some of the other items where substitute funding has been indicated that may well be fine but would require re-assurance that this alternative funding is actually in place before agreeing to the reduction in budget, in terms of the Enablement Service we would wish to examine the impact of any review..
Alternative funding arrangements for CAMHS support 0 155 155
Alternative funding arrangements for Domestic Abuse service 92 252 252
Enablement services - Organisational Review 100 400 400
Total Social Care and Education savings 192 807 807
"
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Councillor Nigel Porter who writes We the undersigned wish to "Call In" the parts of the Executive Decision in regard to cuts in budgets {Headlined BUDGET SAVINGS}.
We are content for some of the savings to be agreed but have concerns about the following matters and their impact on the people of Leicester
Restructuring of the provision of Waste Services 0 75 75
Reduced expenditure on Parks & Open Spaces 30 339 339
Efficiency savings within Regulatory Services 0 113 113
Additional income within Bereavement & EBS 0 127 194
Efficiency Savings from Street Cleansing 0 90 180
In particular we note that none of these cuts appear to have been examined by the relevant Scrutiny Committee
In terms of some of the other items where substitute funding has been indicated that may well be fine but would require re-assurance that this alternative funding is actually in place before agreeing to the reduction in budget, in terms of the Enablement Service we would wish to examine the impact of any review..
Alternative funding arrangements for CAMHS support 0 155 155
Alternative funding arrangements for Domestic Abuse service 92 252 252
Enablement services - Organisational Review 100 400 400
Total Social Care and Education savings 192 807 807
"
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Councillor Paul Westley who writes We the undersigned wish to "Call In" the parts of the Executive Decision in regard to cuts in budgets {Headlined BUDGET SAVINGS}.
We are content for some of the savings to be agreed but have concerns about the following matters and their impact on the people of Leicester
Restructuring of the provision of Waste Services 0 75 75
Reduced expenditure on Parks & Open Spaces 30 339 339
Efficiency savings within Regulatory Services 0 113 113
Additional income within Bereavement & EBS 0 127 194
Efficiency Savings from Street Cleansing 0 90 180
In particular we note that none of these cuts appear to have been examined by the relevant Scrutiny Committee
In terms of some of the other items where substitute funding has been indicated that may well be fine but would require re-assurance that this alternative funding is actually in place before agreeing to the reduction in budget, in terms of the Enablement Service we would wish to examine the impact of any review..
Alternative funding arrangements for CAMHS support 0 155 155
Alternative funding arrangements for Domestic Abuse service 92 252 252
Enablement services - Organisational Review 100 400 400
Total Social Care and Education savings 192 807 807
"
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Councillor Liz Sahu who writes We the undersigned wish to "Call In" the parts of the Executive Decision in regard to cuts in budgets {Headlined BUDGET SAVINGS}.
We are content for some of the savings to be agreed but have concerns about the following matters and their impact on the people of Leicester
Restructuring of the provision of Waste Services 0 75 75
Reduced expenditure on Parks & Open Spaces 30 339 339
Efficiency savings within Regulatory Services 0 113 113
Additional income within Bereavement & EBS 0 127 194
Efficiency Savings from Street Cleansing 0 90 180
In particular we note that none of these cuts appear to have been examined by the relevant Scrutiny Committee
In terms of some of the other items where substitute funding has been indicated that may well be fine but would require re-assurance that this alternative funding is actually in place before agreeing to the reduction in budget, in terms of the Enablement Service we would wish to examine the impact of any review..
Alternative funding arrangements for CAMHS support 0 155 155
Alternative funding arrangements for Domestic Abuse service 92 252 252
Enablement services - Organisational Review 100 400 400
Total Social Care and Education savings 192 807 807
"
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Councillor Deepak Bajaj who writes We the undersigned wish to "Call In" the parts of the Executive Decision in regard to cuts in budgets {Headlined BUDGET SAVINGS}.
We are content for some of the savings to be agreed but have concerns about the following matters and their impact on the people of Leicester
Restructuring of the provision of Waste Services 0 75 75
Reduced expenditure on Parks & Open Spaces 30 339 339
Efficiency savings within Regulatory Services 0 113 113
Additional income within Bereavement & EBS 0 127 194
Efficiency Savings from Street Cleansing 0 90 180
In particular we note that none of these cuts appear to have been examined by the relevant Scrutiny Committee
In terms of some of the other items where substitute funding has been indicated that may well be fine but would require re-assurance that this alternative funding is actually in place before agreeing to the reduction in budget, in terms of the Enablement Service we would wish to examine the impact of any review..
Alternative funding arrangements for CAMHS support 0 155 155
Alternative funding arrangements for Domestic Abuse service 92 252 252
Enablement services - Organisational Review 100 400 400
Total Social Care and Education savings 192 807 807
"
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Councillor Mick Gregg who writes We the undersigned wish to "Call In" the parts of the Executive Decision in regard to cuts in budgets {Headlined BUDGET SAVINGS}.
We are content for some of the savings to be agreed but have concerns about the following matters and their impact on the people of Leicester
Restructuring of the provision of Waste Services 0 75 75
Reduced expenditure on Parks & Open Spaces 30 339 339
Efficiency savings within Regulatory Services 0 113 113
Additional income within Bereavement & EBS 0 127 194
Efficiency Savings from Street Cleansing 0 90 180
In particular we note that none of these cuts appear to have been examined by the relevant Scrutiny Committee
In terms of some of the other items where substitute funding has been indicated that may well be fine but would require re-assurance that this alternative funding is actually in place before agreeing to the reduction in budget, in terms of the Enablement Service we would wish to examine the impact of any review..
Alternative funding arrangements for CAMHS support 0 155 155
Alternative funding arrangements for Domestic Abuse service 92 252 252
Enablement services - Organisational Review 100 400 400
Total Social Care and Education savings 192 807 807
"
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