To approve the Council’s Revenue Budget and Capital Investment Plan Budget for 2017/2018 including the setting of fees and charges for Council services, the Council’s Corporate Asset Management Strategy and Capital Strategy and Transformation Projects.

(i)         that the Mayor disagrees with the objection; and

(ii)        that the Capital Plan Budget proposals for 2017/2018, as set out in Appendix 1 to the submitted report and as presented to the adjourned Council meeting on 9 February 2017, be recommended to Council for approval.

To respond to the Council’s objections to the Capital Plan Budget for 2017/2018.  If a scheme is materially different an approved scheme it will be presented back to Council for approval as a matter of course.

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The Mayor’s response to the Council’s objections to the Capital Plan Budget will be considered at the Council meeting on 23 February 2017.

At the adjourned Council meeting held on 9 February 2017 the Council formally objected to the Mayor’s Capital Plan budget proposals on the basis that a number of schemes have substantially changed and/or a significant time has passed since Council's original approval.  Therefore, these should be re-examined by the Overview and Scrutiny Board to enable it to make recommendations to the Council before they are approved.

In accordance with the Constitution at F2.9, the Council required the Mayor to consider this objection by 17 February 2017 either:

a)       submit a revision of the estimates or amounts as amended by the elected Mayor with the reasons for any amendments made to the estimates or amounts, to the Council for its consideration;  or

b)       inform the Council of any disagreement that the elected Mayor has with any of the Council’s objections and the elected Mayor’s reasons for any such disagreement.

The Mayor considered the recommendation of the Council and his response is set out above.

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