Issue - meetings

The purpose of the attached report by the Head of Housing & Property Services is to inform members of the spending proposed for the next financial year for revenue and capital funded maintenance and improvement programmes together with Housing IT Business Software and to seek approval to incur expenditure in respect of the capital schemes and rolling programmes.  Also to show how the budgets have been allocated on an area office basis.

RECOMMENDED

(1)  That the area programmes and allocation of finance for the funding of the Revenue Budgets for repairs and maintenance of dwellings be noted.

(2)  That the capital budgets listed in Appendix B and Appendix C commencing in 2014/15 be approved and the Head of Housing and Property Services be authorised under Financial Rules, Section B14 to proceed with schemes with the sums approved.

(3)  That the Head of Financial Services and Section 151 Officer's financial appraisal be approved for the capital programme - global provision.

(1)  The area programmes and allocation of finance for the funding of the Revenue Budgets for repairs and maintenance of dwellings were noted.

(2)  That the capital budgets listed in Appendix B and Appendix C commencing in 2014/15 be approved and the Head of Housing and Property Services were authorised under Financial Rules, Section B14 to proceed with schemes with the sums approved.

(3)  That the Head of Financial Services and Section 151 Officer's financial appraisal was approved for the capital programme - global provision.

(TAKE IN REPORT BY HEAD OF HOUSING & PROPERTY SERVICES)

Councillor Sanders as Cabinet Member asked that this annual report be retitled in future.  Meredydd Hughes introduced the report and reported that he would be taking an item to the next residents' CLG meeting in April to go through the projects and give an overview of the works being undertaken.  Councillor Sanders was supportive of the report and would like to know if there were any problems with timescales being met for the works.

DECISIONS:

(1)          The area programmes and allocation of finance for the funding of the Revenue Budgets for repairs and maintenance of dwellings were noted.

(2)          That the capital budgets listed in Appendix B and Appendix C commencing in 2014/15 be approved and the Head of Housing and Property Services were authorised under Financial Rules, Section B14 to proceed with schemes with the sums approved.

(3)          That the Head of Financial Services and Section 151 Officer's financial appraisal was approved for the capital programme - global provision.