Issue - meetings

Received a monitoring report covering the Council’s capital and revenue expenditure to the end of June 2003. 

Noted the potential budget overspend of £600,000 in the Education, Arts and Libraries Department and that action was being taken to address this.  Also noted the actions taken within the Housing and Health Department to address pressures on the Housing General Fund Budget and the Housing Revenue Account

Received the Best Value Performance Plan monitoring report for the first quarter 2003/04.  The Management Team gave a presentation on, and we discussed, performance against a range of key Performance Indicators within the Plan.