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Cabinet:

(1)           
noted the Council’s financial ground rules
that service directors are required to implement management actions
to mitigate any pressures outlined in paragraph 3.1 of the report,
before the use of corporate or reserves items are
considered;

(2)           
approved £0.500m investment in parks for the maintenance of
play equipment and new provision to support 15 minute
neighbourhoodsto be
funded from contingency;

(3)           
approved one off funding of up to £0.273m from
contingency for 2023/24 and £0.574m in 2024/25, to implement
a new operating model within Community Safety Service;

(4)           
approved £1.2m from contingency to fund the base budget
issues for the Antisocial behaviour service for 2023/24, with
ongoing resolution sought in the MTFS;

(5)           
approved £0.938m for Accelerator Programmes resource costs
across 2023/24 & 2024/25 to be funded from the budget strategy
reserve;

(6)           
approved 0.153m for the Commissioning Quality Improvement project
to be funded from the budget strategy reserve;

(7)           
approved £0.140m funding for Learning and Development
Strategy Delivery Manager costs to be funded from the budget
strategy reserve;

(8)           
approved funding from budget strategy reserve of £37k for
additional hardware and £20k to fund technical upskilling in
the Data & Intelligence service; and

(9)           
noted the transfer of £0.385m from the contingency to
Technology and Digital Services to cover additional costs relating
to telephony and licensing; and

(10)       
noted the transfer of £0.013m from the contingency budget to
Revenues and Benefits to cover the cost of collecting the Business
Improvement (BID) Levy, following previous agreement that this
would be funded corporately.
 

OPTIONS & ALTERNATIVES CONSIDERED

Much of this report is concerned with provision of information, for
which alternative options is not a relevant consideration.