Decision details

This report presents the council's draft revenue budget for 2003/2004. The constitution requires Cabinet to develop 'initial budget proposals' approximately three months before finalising the budget and setting council tax levels in February 2003.

335/2002 The Cabinet forwarded the provisional draft budget to Overview and Scrutiny as work in progress inviting them to offer comments on the proposals outlined subject to the following amendments:-Appendix 1 (note no. 27) - to reduce the savings figure to £237,000 by taking out the post-16 home to school transport elementAppendix 5 (notes 14, 15 and 16) - to delete the 3 posts (Health and Safety Officer, Public Relations Officer and Information Officer).
336/2002 The Cabinet instructed directors to work on all the options for further savings and income proposals as set out in paragraph 7.2 of the report.

It is the responsibility of Cabinet to develop draft budget proposals for consideration by overview and scrutiny committees. These draft proposals are the first stage of the budget consultation process leading to further discussion by Cabinet and formal council tax setting on 19 February 2003.