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Declarations of Interests Minutes: The
following member made a declaration of interest at the commencement of the
meeting: Councillor S.Rahaman Re
- Former Afan Lido Site (Exempt under Paragraph 14)
as he has a family business next to the site. |
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Pre-decision Scrutiny ·
To select appropriate items from the Cabinet agenda for pre-decision
scrutiny (cabinet reports enclosed for Scrutiny Members) ·
To select appropriate items from the Cabinet (Finance) Sub Committee
agenda for pre-decision scrutiny (Cabinet Finance Sub - Committee reports
enclosed for Scrutiny Members) Minutes: The
committee chose to scrutinise the following Cabinet Board items: Budget
Update and Monitoring Members received an
overview of the financial implications of Covid-19 on the Council’s Financial
Resources and 2020/21 Budget, as detailed within the circulated report. It was highlighted that
there was a mistake on page 4 of the report in which it states ‘and we are
awaiting WG confirmation relating to a further £1’; it was confirmed that the
figure should be amended to £1.8m. Officers stated that
Welsh Government originally allocated £188.5m for local authorities to recover
costs and loss of income through the Hardship Fund which was mainly to cover
the period up to the end of June. It was noted that the Council had submitted
claims for additional expenditure that was incurred (£4.133m) and were still
waiting for confirmation on the reimbursement for the claim in July. Members
were informed that since writing the report, Welsh Government had agreed to
reimburse £409k free school meal costs and around £207k social services costs;
therefore leaving a balance of around £156k of additional costs that Welsh
Government had said they would not be refunding. It was mentioned that the
majority of the remaining balance was additional ICT hardware costs that the
Council had incurred, in which Welsh Government were only reimbursing 50% of
costs and 25% of communications and media marketing costs. The Committee noted that
Welsh Government had reimbursed the Council £2.3m worth of lost income relating
to parks, leisure centres, libraries, theatres, school meals, trade waste and
parking; and that the Council had submitted a further request for £1.8m mainly
relating to schools, Hillside, rent income from environment services and income
from capital projects. It was highlighted that clarification was still needed
on how Welsh Government were going to be reviewing the loss of income claims,
however the report assumed that at this stage £400k of the £1.8m would be
reimbursed. Following this, it was
confirmed that on 17th August 2020, Welsh Government announced an
additional £264m of funding for Local Authorities to further mitigate against
the financial impact of Covid-19 and as part of the announcement, they stated
that £25m would be related to school cleaning. It was noted that as a consequence
of this, the original projected £10m overspend that was reflected in the
analysis of the report, was currently down to £5m projected overspend. A discussion took place in relation to the progress of the financial forward planning and lost income payments. It was stated that there was no guarantee from the UK Treasury and Government of further consequential payments coming forward, therefore Welsh Government could not guarantee any further lost income payments; however they were paying majority of the claims and were efficiently monitoring. It was mentioned that the Council would need to start looking at their own council tax setting, in which there had been some additional money for council tax relief schemes; it was added that the Council would have a better idea in the next few ... view the full minutes text for item 2. |
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Access to Meetings To
resolve to exclude the public for the following items pursuant to Regulation 4
(3) and (5) of Statutory Instrument 2001 No.2290 and the relevant exempt
paragraphs of Part 4 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972 Minutes: RESOLVED: that pursuant to Section 100A(4)
and (5) of the Local Government Act 1972,
the public be excluded for the following item of
business which involved the likely
disclosure of exempt information as defined in Paragraph 14
of Part 4 of Schedule 12A to the above
Act. |
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Pre-Decision Scrutiny of Private Item/s ·
To select appropriate items from the Cabinet agenda for pre-decision
scrutiny (cabinet reports enclosed for Scrutiny Members) ·
To select appropriate items from the Cabinet (Finance) Sub Committee
agenda for pre-decision scrutiny (Cabinet Finance Sub - Committee reports
enclosed for Scrutiny Members) Minutes: The
committee chose to scrutinise the following Cabinet Board private items: Former
Afan Lido Site Members
received information on the former Afan Lido Site as detailed within the
circulated private report. Following
scrutiny, the committee was supportive of the proposals to be considered by
Cabinet. |