Agenda item - Budget

Budget

(i) Revenue Budget

a) That the Revenue Budget for 2010/11 totalling £569,295,000, as detailed and explained in the submitted report and accompanying papers, be approved, including a 2.5% increase in the Leeds element of the Council Tax.

b) That with respect to the Housing Revenue Account the following be approved:-

i) approve the budget at the average rent increase of figure of 3.1%

ii) increase the charges for garage rents to £6.07 per week

iii) increase service charges in line with rents (3.1%)

(ii) Council Tax

1. That it be noted that at the meeting on 20^th January 2010, Council agreed the following amounts for the year 2010/11, in accordance with regulations made under Sections 33(5) and 34(4) of the Local Government Finance Act 1992:-

a) 236,630 being the amount calculated by the Council, in accordance with Regulation 3 of the Local Authorities (Calculation of Council Tax Base) Regulations 1992 (as amended) as its Council Tax base for the year.

PARISH	TAXBASE
Aberford and District	782
AllertonBywater	1377
Alwoodley	3702
Arthington	297
Austhorpe	26
Bardsey cum Rigton	1163
Barwick in Elmet and Scholes	2022
Boston Spa	1840
Bramham cum Oglethorpe	729
Bramhope and Carlton	1814
Clifford	753
Collingham with Linton	1648
Drighlington	1909
Gildersome	1971
Great and Little Preston	495
Harewood	1827
Horsforth	6981
East Keswick	591
Kippax	3094
Ledsham	91
Ledston	162
Micklefield	569
Morley	9838
Otley	4928
Pool in Wharfedale	973
Scarcroft	679
Shadwell	953
Swillington	1075
Thorner	749
Thorp Arch	355
Walton	120
Wetherby	4643
Wothersome	8

being the amounts calculated by the Council in accordance with Regulation 6 of the Regulations, as the amounts of its Council Tax base for the year for dwellings in those parts of its area to which one or more special items relate.

2 That the following amounts be now calculated by the Council for the year 2010/11 in accordance with Sections 32 to 36 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992:-

a) £2,098,510,270.94 being the aggregate of the amounts which the Council estimates for the items set out in Section 32(2)(a) to (e) of the Act.

b) £1,527,787,000 being the aggregate of the amounts which the Council estimates for the items set out in Section 32(3)(a) to (c) of the Act.

c) £570,723,270.94 being the amount by which the aggregate at 2(a) above exceeds the aggregate at 2(b) above, calculated by the Council, in accordance with Section 32(4) of the Act, as its budget requirement for the year.

d) £303,443,733 being the aggregate of the sums which the Council estimates will be payable for the year into its general fund in respect of redistributed Non-Domestic Rates and Revenue Support Grant, increased by the amount which the Council estimates will be transferred from its Collection Fund into its General Fund under Section 97(3) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 and reduced by the amount which the Council estimates will be transferred from its Collection Fund to its General Fund pursuant to the Collection Fund (Community Charges) (England) Directions 1994.

e) £1,129.525157 being the amount at 2(c) above, less the amount at 2(d) above, all divided by the amount at 1(a) above, calculated by the Council, in accordance with Section 33(1) of the Act, as the basic amount of its Council Tax for the year.

f) £1,428,270.94 being the aggregate amount of all special items referred to in Section 34(1) of the Act.

g) £1,123.49 being the amount at 2(e) above, less the result given by dividing the amount at 2(f) above by the amount at 1(a) above, calculated by the Council, in accordance with Section 34(2) of the Act, as the basic amount of its Council Tax for the year for dwellings in those parts of its area to which no special item relates.


Parish	Band D
	£ p

Aberford and District	1,135.00
AllertonBywater	1,142.37
Alwoodley	1,133.41
Arthington	1,130.22
Bardsey cum Rigton	1,147.22
Barwick in Elmet and Scholes	1,142.78
Boston Spa	1,142.51
Bramham cum Oglethorpe	1,150.92
Bramhope and Carlton	1,159.32
Clifford	1,150.71
Collingham with Linton	1,154.74
Drighlington	1,134.49
Gildersome	1,134.14
Great and Little Preston	1,140.66
Harewood	1,124.04
Horsforth	1,138.03
East Keswick	1,149.72
Kippax	1,138.11
Ledsham	1,151.51
Ledston	1,143.24
Micklefield	1,189.66
Morley	1,141.29
Otley	1,184.36
Pool in Wharfedale	1,155.51
Scarcroft	1,139.69
Shadwell	1,154.97
Swillington	1,146.27
Thorner	1,159.54
Thorp Arch	1,147.32
Walton	1,160.99
Wetherby	1,172.42

being the amounts given by adding to the amount at 2(g) above the amounts of the special item or items relating to dwellings in those parts of the Council’s area mentioned above divided in each case by the amount at 1(b) above, calculated by the Council, in accordance with Section 34(3) of the Act, as the basic amounts of its Council Tax for the year for dwellings in those parts of its area to which one or more special items relate.

being the amounts given by multiplying the amounts at 2(g) and 2(h) above by the number which, in the proportion set out in Section 5(1) of the Act, is applicable to dwellings listed in a particular valuation band divided by the number which in that proportion is applicable to dwellings listed in Valuation Band D, calculated by the Council, in accordance with Section 36(1) of the Act, as the amounts to be taken into account for the year in respect of categories of dwellings listed in different valuation bands.

3 That it be noted for the year 2010/11 that the West Yorkshire Police Authority has issued and the West Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Authority are expected to issue the following precepts to the Council in accordance with Section 40 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992, for each of the categories of dwellings shown below. The Fire and Rescue Authority meet to finalise their budget and Council taxes on 19^th February 2010.

4 That, having calculated the aggregate in each case of the amounts at 2(i) and 3 above, the Council, in accordance with Section 30(2) of the Local Government Finance Act 1992, hereby sets the following amounts as the amounts of council tax for the year 2010/11 for each of the categories of dwellings shown below.

5 That the schedule of instalments for 2010/11 for payments to the principal authorities out of the Collection Fund be determined as set out in Appendix II of the submitted report.

iii) Capital Programme Update 2009-2014

a) That the capital programme, as attached to the submitted report, be approved and that the list of schemes shown at Appendix H to the report be reserved until additional resources become available;

b) That the Executive Board be authorised to approve in year amendments to the capital programme including transfers from and to the reserved programme in accordance with Financial Procedure Rules;

c) That the proposed Minimum Revenue Provision policies for 2010/11 as set out in 3 of the report and explained in Appendix G be approved;

d) That the Minimum Revenue Provision policies for 2009/10 be amended as set out in 5.3.3 of the report.

iv) Treasury Management Strategy 2010/2011

a) That borrowing limits be set for 2009/10, 2010/11. 2011/12 and 2012/13 as set out in Section 3.4 of the submitted report.

b) That treasury management indicators be set for 2009/10, 2010/11,2011/12 and 2012/13 as set out in Section 3.5 of the report.

c) That investment limits be set for 2009/10. 2010/11, 2011/12 and 2012/13 as set out in Section 3.6 of the report.

d) That the revised CIPFA Treasury Management Code of Practice 2009 and revised Prudential Code be adopted.

R BRETT

Minutes:

Under the provisions of Council Procedure Rule 14.10 leave of Council was given to alter paragraph (ii)3 by the deletion of the words “has Issued” and “are expected to issue” and replacement of the latter with “have issued” and deletion of “The Fire and Rescue Authority meet to finalise their budget and Council Taxes on 19^th February 2010”.

It was moved by Councillor Brett, seconded by Councillor A Carter

(i) Revenue Budget

b) That with respect to the Housing Revenue Account the following be approved:-

i) approve the budget at the average rent increase of figure of 3.1%

ii) increase the charges for garage rents to £6.07 per week

iii) increase service charges in line with rents (3.1%)

(ii) Council Tax

PARISH	TAXBASE
Aberford and District	782
AllertonBywater	1377
Alwoodley	3702
Arthington	297
Austhorpe	26
Bardsey cum Rigton	1163
Barwick in Elmet and Scholes	2022
Boston Spa	1840
Bramham cum Oglethorpe	729
Bramhope and Carlton	1814
Clifford	753
Collingham with Linton	1648
Drighlington	1909
Gildersome	1971
Great and Little Preston	495
Harewood	1827
Horsforth	6981
East Keswick	591
Kippax	3094
Ledsham	91
Ledston	162
Micklefield	569
Morley	9838
Otley	4928
Pool in Wharfedale	973
Scarcroft	679
Shadwell	953
Swillington	1075
Thorner	749
Thorp Arch	355
Walton	120
Wetherby	4643
Wothersome	8

2 That the following amounts be now calculated by the Council for the year 2010/11 in accordance with Sections 32 to 36 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992:-

a) £2,098,510,270.94 being the aggregate of the amounts which the Council estimates for the items set out in Section 32(2)(a) to (e) of the Act.

b) £1,527,787,000 being the aggregate of the amounts which the Council estimates for the items set out in Section 32(3)(a) to (c) of the Act.

f) £1,428,270.94 being the aggregate amount of all special items referred to in Section 34(1) of the Act.

Parish	Band D
	£ p

Aberford and District	1,135.00
AllertonBywater	1,142.37
Alwoodley	1,133.41
Arthington	1,130.22
Bardsey cum Rigton	1,147.22
Barwick in Elmet and Scholes	1,142.78
Boston Spa	1,142.51
Bramham cum Oglethorpe	1,150.92
Bramhope and Carlton	1,159.32
Clifford	1,150.71
Collingham with Linton	1,154.74
Drighlington	1,134.49
Gildersome	1,134.14
Great and Little Preston	1,140.66
Harewood	1,124.04
Horsforth	1,138.03
East Keswick	1,149.72
Kippax	1,138.11
Ledsham	1,151.51
Ledston	1,143.24
Micklefield	1,189.66
Morley	1,141.29
Otley	1,184.36
Pool in Wharfedale	1,155.51
Scarcroft	1,139.69
Shadwell	1,154.97
Swillington	1,146.27
Thorner	1,159.54
Thorp Arch	1,147.32
Walton	1,160.99
Wetherby	1,172.42

3 That it be noted for the year 2010/11 that the West Yorkshire Police Authority and the West Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Authority have issued the following precepts to the Council in accordance with Section 40 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992, for each of the categories of dwellings shown below.

5 That the schedule of instalments for 2010/11 for payments to the principal authorities out of the Collection Fund be determined as set out in Appendix II of the submitted report.

iii) Capital Programme Update 2009-2014

a) That the capital programme, as attached to the submitted report, be approved and that the list of schemes shown at Appendix H to the report be reserved until additional resources become available;

b) That the Executive Board be authorised to approve in year amendments to the capital programme including transfers from and to the reserved programme in accordance with Financial Procedure Rules;

c) That the proposed Minimum Revenue Provision policies for 2010/11 as set out in 3 of the report and explained in Appendix G be approved;

d) That the Minimum Revenue Provision policies for 2009/10 be amended as set out in 5.3.3 of the report.

iv) Treasury Management Strategy 2010/2011

a) That borrowing limits be set for 2009/10, 2010/11. 2011/12 and 2012/13 as set out in Section 3.4 of the submitted report.

b) That treasury management indicators be set for 2009/10, 2010/11,2011/12 and 2012/13 as set out in Section 3.5 of the report.

c) That investment limits be set for 2009/10. 2010/11, 2011/12 and 2012/13 as set out in Section 3.6 of the report.

d) That the revised CIPFA Treasury Management Code of Practice 2009 and revised Prudential Code be adopted.

An amendment was moved by Councillor Wakefield, seconded by Councillor R Lewis

1. In 4 (i), after the words “be approved” add:

“subject to amendments to the Council’s estimates for 2010/11 as set out below:-

a) an increase in the Environment and Neighbourhoods budget of £626,000

b) an increase in the City Development budget of £420,000

c) an increase in the Adult Social Care budget of £444,000

d) a decrease in the Children’s Services budget of £350,000

e) a decrease in the Central and Corporate budget of £10,000

f) a decrease in the Strategic budget of £1,130,000

2. In 4 (ii) 2 (a) delete “£2,098,510,270.94” and substitute “£2,098,611,270.94”

3. In 4 (ii) 2 (b) delete “£1,527,787,000” and substitute “£1,527,888,000”

4. In 4 (iii) (a) after the words “be approved”, add:

“subject to an increase in the Environment and Neighbourhoods Capital Programme of £1,300,000, and a corresponding decrease in the City Development Capital Programme.”

A second amendment was moved by Councillor A Blackburn, seconded by Councillor Parnham

1. In 4 (i), after "£569,295,000" substitute "£570,332,000" and after the words "be approved" add:

"subject to amendments to the Council’s estimates for 2010/11 asset out below:

a) an increase in the Children’s Services budget of £640,000

b) an increase in the Adult Social Care budget of £2,600,000

c) a decrease in the City Development budget of £327,000

d) a decrease in the Environment and Neighbourhoods budget of £326,000

e) a decrease in the Central and Corporate budget of £460,000

f) a decrease in the Strategic budget of £1,090,000

2. In 4 (ii) 2 (a) delete "£2,098,510,270.94" and substitute "£2,098,747,270.94"

3. In 4 (ii) 2 (b) delete "£1,527,787,000" and substitute "£1,526,987,000"

4. In 4 (ii) 2 (c) delete "£570,723,270.94" and substitute "£571,760,270.94"

5. In 4 (ii) 2 (e) delete "£1,129.525157" and substitute "£1,133.907526"

6. In 4 (ii) 2 (g) delete "£1,123.49" and substitute "£1,127.87"

7. That subject to the approval of 1 to 6 above, consequential amendments be made to 4 (ii) 2(h) and 4 (ii) 2 (i)

8. In 4 (iii) (a) after the words "be approved", add:

"subject to an increase in the Environment and Neighbourhoods Capital Programme of £1,000,000, and a corresponding increase in unsupported borrowing of £1,000,000."

Both the amendment and the second amendment were declared lost and upon the motion being put to the vote it was

RESOLVED

(i) Revenue Budget

b) That with respect to the Housing Revenue Account the following be approved:-

i) approve the budget at the average rent increase of figure of 3.1%

ii) increase the charges for garage rents to £6.07 per week

iii) increase service charges in line with rents (3.1%)

(ii) Council Tax

PARISH	TAXBASE
Aberford and District	782
AllertonBywater	1377
Alwoodley	3702
Arthington	297
Austhorpe	26
Bardsey cum Rigton	1163
Barwick in Elmet and Scholes	2022
Boston Spa	1840
Bramham cum Oglethorpe	729
Bramhope and Carlton	1814
Clifford	753
Collingham with Linton	1648
Drighlington	1909
Gildersome	1971
Great and Little Preston	495
Harewood	1827
Horsforth	6981
East Keswick	591
Kippax	3094
Ledsham	91
Ledston	162
Micklefield	569
Morley	9838
Otley	4928
Pool in Wharfedale	973
Scarcroft	679
Shadwell	953
Swillington	1075
Thorner	749
Thorp Arch	355
Walton	120
Wetherby	4643
Wothersome	8

2 That the following amounts be now calculated by the Council for the year 2010/11 in accordance with Sections 32 to 36 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992:-

a) £2,098,510,270.94 being the aggregate of the amounts which the Council estimates for the items set out in Section 32(2)(a) to (e) of the Act.

b) £1,527,787,000 being the aggregate of the amounts which the Council estimates for the items set out in Section 32(3)(a) to (c) of the Act.

f) £1,428,270.94 being the aggregate amount of all special items referred to in Section 34(1) of the Act.

Parish	Band D
	£ p

Aberford and District	1,135.00
AllertonBywater	1,142.37
Alwoodley	1,133.41
Arthington	1,130.22
Bardsey cum Rigton	1,147.22
Barwick in Elmet and Scholes	1,142.78
Boston Spa	1,142.51
Bramham cum Oglethorpe	1,150.92
Bramhope and Carlton	1,159.32
Clifford	1,150.71
Collingham with Linton	1,154.74
Drighlington	1,134.49
Gildersome	1,134.14
Great and Little Preston	1,140.66
Harewood	1,124.04
Horsforth	1,138.03
East Keswick	1,149.72
Kippax	1,138.11
Ledsham	1,151.51
Ledston	1,143.24
Micklefield	1,189.66
Morley	1,141.29
Otley	1,184.36
Pool in Wharfedale	1,155.51
Scarcroft	1,139.69
Shadwell	1,154.97
Swillington	1,146.27
Thorner	1,159.54
Thorp Arch	1,147.32
Walton	1,160.99
Wetherby	1,172.42

5 That the schedule of instalments for 2010/11 for payments to the principal authorities out of the Collection Fund be determined as set out in Appendix II of the submitted report.

iii) Capital Programme Update 2009-2014

a) That the capital programme, as attached to the submitted report, be approved and that the list of schemes shown at Appendix H to the report be reserved until additional resources become available;

b) That the Executive Board be authorised to approve in year amendments to the capital programme including transfers from and to the reserved programme in accordance with Financial Procedure Rules;

c) That the proposed Minimum Revenue Provision policies for 2010/11 as set out in 3 of the report and explained in Appendix G be approved;

d) That the Minimum Revenue Provision policies for 2009/10 be amended as set out in 5.3.3 of the report.

iv) Treasury Management Strategy 2010/2011

a) That borrowing limits be set for 2009/10, 2010/11. 2011/12 and 2012/13 as set out in Section 3.4 of the submitted report.

b) That treasury management indicators be set for 2009/10, 2010/11,2011/12 and 2012/13 as set out in Section 3.5 of the report.

c) That investment limits be set for 2009/10. 2010/11, 2011/12 and 2012/13 as set out in Section 3.6 of the report.

d) That the revised CIPFA Treasury Management Code of Practice 2009 and revised Prudential Code be adopted.

(Councillor Murray, having declared a personal and prejudicial interest, absented himself from the meeting during the debate and voting on this matter.)

On the requisition of Councillors Gruen and Lyons, the voting on the amendment in the name of Councillor Wakefield was recorded as follows:-

YES

Armitage, Atha, D Atkinson, Blake, Congreve, Coulson, Coupar, Davey, Dobson, Dowson, Driver, Dunn, Gabriel, Grahame, Gruen, Hanley, Harington, J Harper, G Harper, J A Hussain, G Hyde, Illingworth, Iqbal, Jarosz, J Lewis, R Lewis, Lowe, Lyons, A McKenna, J McKenna, Morgan, L Mulherin, Nash, Ogilvie, Parker, Rafique, Renshaw, Rhodes-Clayton, Selby, Taggart, E Taylor, K Wakefield, Yeadon

Anderson, Andrew, Bale, Barker, Bentley, Beverley, Brett, Campbell, A Carter, J L Carter, Castle, Chapman, Chastney, Cleasby, Downes, Ewens, Mrs R Feldman, R D Feldman, R Finnigan, Fox, Gettings, Golton, Grayshon, Hamilton, Harker, Harrand, Harris, Hollingsworth, W Hyde, Kendall, Kirkland, Lamb, Lancaster, Latty, Leadley, Lobley, Marjoram, Matthews, Monaghan, J Procter, R Procter, Pryke, Robinson, Schofield, Shelbrooke, Smith, A Taylor, Townsley, Wadsworth, Wilkinson, Wilson,

ABSTAIN

A Blackburn, D Blackburn, Parnham,

On the requisition of Councillors A Blackburn and D Blackburn, the voting on the second amendment in the name of Councillor A Blackburn was recorded as follows:-

YES

A Blackburn, D Blackburn, Parnham,

Anderson, Andrew, Bale, Barker, Bentley, Beverley, Brett, Campbell, A Carter, J L Carter, Castle, Chapman, Chastney, Cleasby, Downes, Ewens, Mrs R Feldman, R D Feldman, R Finnigan, Fox, Gettings, Golton, Grayshon, Harker, Harrand, Harris, Hollingsworth, W Hyde, Kendall, Kirkland, Lamb, Lancaster, Latty, Leadley, Lobley, Marjoram, Matthews, Monaghan, J Procter, R Procter, Pryke, Robinson, Schofield, Shelbrooke, Smith, A Taylor, Townsley, Wadsworth, Wilkinson, Wilson.

ABSTAIN

Wakefield.

On the requisition of Councillors Bentley and Matthews, the voting on the motion was recorded as follows:-

YES

Anderson, Andrew, Bale, Barker, Bentley, Brett, Campbell, A Carter, J L Carter, Castle, Chapman, Chastney, Cleasby, Downes, Ewens, Mrs R Feldman, R D Feldman, R Finnigan, Fox, Gettings, Golton, Grayshon, Hamilton, Harker, Harrand, Harris, Hollingsworth, W Hyde, Kendall, Kirkland, Lamb, Lancaster, Latty, Leadley, Lobley, Marjoram, Matthews, Monaghan, J Procter, R Procter, Pryke, Robinson, Schofield, Shelbrooke, Smith, A Taylor, Townsley, Wadsworth, Wilkinson, Wilson.

Beverley.

ABSTAIN

A Blackburn, D Blackburn, Parnham,

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