Agenda item

This report provides a year end analysis of City of York Council’s financial and performance delivery with an overview of key achievements together with a focus on key challenges and improvement required to plan ahead and ensure the objectives of the Council Plan are met.

RESOLVED:       That Cabinet notes the year end under spend of £84k and agree that this is transferred to the General Contingency.

REASON:           To ensure significant financial issues can be appropriately dealt with.

Consideration was given to a report which provided a year end analysis of the financial and performance delivery of the authority together with an overview of the key achievements, challenges and improvements required to ensure that the objectives of the Council Plan were met.

With the financial challenge of an assessed gap of £10.7m at the start of the year it was reported that strong financial and performance action had been taken to deliver a balanced budget for the next two year with minimal redundancies. Overall the Council was sustaining its benchmarked service performance level. The performance achievements and areas of improvement, in relation to each of the priority themes, together with information on actions and performance at paragraphs 9 to 89, and Annexes A to E of the report.

Further information on financial management, spending from the Economic Infrastructure Fund and Delivery and Innovation Fund together with the outturn on a directorate by directorate basis was reported at paragraphs 90 to 144.

The Cabinet Member commended staff on the comprehensive report and the positive overall picture. Individual Cabinet Members went on to highlight work undertaken in their portfolio areas and the future challenges. Reference was made to the under reporting of the bus patronage figures in Priority 2: Get York Moving performance section of the report.

Following further discussion it was  

RESOLVED:       That Cabinet notes the year end under spend of £84k and agree that this is transferred to the General Contingency. ^1.

REASON:           To ensure significant financial issues can be appropriately dealt with.