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Agreed.

Received the Best Value Performance Plan monitoring report for the third quarter 2002/03.  Progress against a range of key Performance Indicators was presented and discussed.

Agreed;

(i)  to receive a further report detailing the geographic and age breakdown of pedestrians killed or seriously injured in road traffic accidents in the Borough; and

(ii)  that the first joint Executive/ Primary Care Trust Board meeting should look at the provision of speech therapists in the Borough.

Noted the quarterly recruitment and selection report which reviewed recruitment and selection activities for the 9 month period from 1 April to 31 December 2002.

Agreed to change the frequency of reporting this monitoring information from quarterly to six monthly.

A  The Budget 2003/04

Received a comprehensive report on the subject of the Revenue and capital budgets and Council Tax to be levied for the year 2003/04.

The Executive considered the implications of alternative levels of expenditure including the effects on the Council Taxpayers, the needs and resources of the area and other factors affecting the Council’s aggregate requirements including its Revenue and Capital estimates.  It reaffirmed that the budget requirement should be set at £205,200,000.

Agreed to recommend to the Assembly:

1.  That the following, as submitted in the Annual Estimates Book, be approved: -

(a)  the revised revenue estimates for the year 2002/2003 and the revenue estimates for 2003/2004.

(b)  the capital programme for the year 2003/2004 and, in principle, for 2004/05 to 2007/08.

2.  That it be noted that at its meeting on 17 December 2002 the Assembly calculated the amount of 51,921 as its Council Tax Base for the year 2003/2004 in accordance with regulation 3 of the Local Authorities (Calculation of Council Tax Base) Regulations 1992 made under Section 33(5) of the Local Government Finance Act 1992.

3.  That the following amounts be now calculated by the Council for the year 2003/2004 in accordance with Sections 32 to 36 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992: -

(a)  £414,608,609  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)  £209,408,609  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)  £205,200,000  being the amount by which the aggregate at 3(a) above exceeds the aggregate at 3(b) above, calculated by the Council, in accordance with Section 32 (4) of the Act, as its budget requirement for the year.

(d)  £162,430,596  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, revenue support grant reduced by the amount of the sums which the Council estimates will be transferred in the year from its General Fund in accordance with Section 97 (4) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 and increased by the amount of any sum which the Council estimates will be transferred from its collection Fund to its General Fund pursuant to the directions under Section 98 (4) of the Local Government Finance Act 1998 made on the 7 February 1994.

(e)  £823.74  being the amount at 3 (c) above less the amount at 3 (d) above, all divided by the amount at (2) 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)  Valuation Bands

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