Tonight, we've got the
final Constituency Committee before the elections and money figures large on the agenda. The main items are:
- 2011-12 Q3 Budget monitoring report (Oct-Dec 2011)
- 2012-13 Revenue Budget
- Surplus properties in Yardley and how they are to be disposed of
- Community Chest Applications - S Yardley; Stechford & Yardley North; All ward applications
At the end of December, the constituency was expecting to overspend by a whopping £454,000 this year and the only steps suggested to minimise that are that the officers and chair will stringently control budget expenditure and carefully manage vacancies, temporary staff and redeployment. Which you would rather think would be standard practice, rather than a last minute panic measure. Added to that is the constituency's failure to achieve £312,000 in savings, with no measures in place to achieve those figures. Part of the £1 million savings has already been achieved through a series of one-off measures - using up unspent Working Neighbourhoods Fund and deferring payments of deficits built up in earlier years are one-off methods that were tried at city level as well.
Should be an interesting meeting.
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