Issue - meetings

This report has appendices which contain information exempt within the meaning of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act1972 and are not for publication. The appendices have therefore been circulated to Cabinet Members only.

Any discussions on the contents of an exempt appendix will require Cabinet to pass the proposed resolution identified at the end of the agenda to exclude members of the public and the press from the proceedings for that discussion.

Councillor Lisa Homan stated that this report updated on progress and recommended the approval of additional expenditure.

RESOLVED:

1          To approve a one-off annual revenue budget of £22.2m for the interim repairs model, of which £18.1m will be funded from existing Property & Compliance division budgets within the Housing Revenue Account for 2019/20 and £4.1m will be funded as a one-off appropriation from the Housing Revenue Account General Reserve.

2          To approve additional implementation and mobilisation costs of £782,000, in additional to the £930,000 already approved by Cabinet. The additional £782,000 will be funded from the Housing Revenue Account Transformation earmarked reserve.

3          To approve the transfer of the Housing Revenue Account Parking Charges Review earmarked reserve balance of £500,000 to the Transformation earmarked reserve.

4          To approve (within the annual revenue budget of £18.1m supplemented by a one-off reserve payment of £4.1m, referred to above) the creation of the following posts:

(a) the new Customer Service Centre posts, detailed in section 4.5, at a cost of £1,700,491 per annum

(b) the new posts within the Council’s in-house Direct Labour Organisation (DLO), detailed in section 4.23, at a cost of £2,351,960 per annum

(c) the new posts within Growth and Place’s clienting structure, detailed in section 4.30 at a cost of £607,319