Department of Corporate and Community Services
Deputy Chief Executive: Caroline Innes BSc (Hons)
Council Headquarters, Eastwood Park, Giffnock, East Renfrewshire, G46 6UG
Phone: 0141 577 3000 Fax: 0141 577 3834 website: www.eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk
Date: 14 August 2020
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TO:Councillors T Buchanan (Chair); C Bamforth; D Devlin; A Lafferty; C Merrick; and P O’Kane.

CABINET

A meeting of the Cabinet will be held on

Thursday, 27 August 2020 at 10.00am.

The agenda of business is as shown below.

Please note this is a virtual meeting.

Caroline Innes
C INNES
DEPUTY CHIEF EXECUTIVE

AGENDA
1.Report apologies for absence.

2.Declarations of Interest.

3.Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Scotland) Act 2000 – Report by Chief Officer– Legal and Procurement (copy attached, pages 3 - 36).

4.Cabinet Work Plan Progress 2019/20 and Cabinet Work Plan 2020/21 – Reportby Chief Executive (copy attached, pages37 - 44).

5.Continued Use of the Social Work Case Management Solution – Report byDeputy Chief Executive (copy attached, pages45 - 48)

6.Estimated Revenue Budget Out-turn 2020/21 – Report by Chief FinancialOfficer(copy attached, pages49 - 86).

7.General Fund Capital Programme 2020/21 - Report by Chief Financial Officer(copy attached, pages87 - 112).

8.Housing Capital Programme 2020/21 – Report by Chief Financial Officer(copyattached, pages113 - 120).


You can read details on the Council Website here -

www.eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk/cabinet-270820

You can read the meeting papers here -

www.eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk/media/1898/C...m=637329183546270000

Extract from -

EAST RENFREWSHIRE COUNCIL
CABINET
27 August 2020
Report by Head of Accountancy (Chief Financial Officer)
ESTIMATED REVENUE BUDGET OUT-TURN 2020/21

BUDGET PERFORMANCE
5. As at 30 June 2020, the estimated year end position shows a net overspend of £2,877k based on current information and taking account of additional grant funding confirmed and anticipated to date.

For General Fund services the projected overspend is £2,392k and together with the projected shortfall in Council Tax collection of £450k the total forecast overspend on General Fund services is £2,842k.

This reflects a much improved position from that reported to Council on 24 June 2020 and is due to various increases in anticipated grant funding (including assumptions as to Government support for income losses from sales, fees and charges), together with very close expenditure controls across all departments.

CONCLUSIONS

7. The Council’s projected revenue out-turn position is reported as an operational overspend of £2,877k largely as a result of COVID pressures

This position has been arrived at after taking account of both confirmed and anticipated additional grant funding in relation to COVID.

The report demonstrates the serious financial implications on operational services arising from the current pandemic and highlights the remaining budget shortfall still to be closed.

Whilst the Council continues to work with COSLA in seeking further grant resources and/or additional fiscal flexibilities, departments must continue to do all they can to avoid non-essential expenditure, to closely monitor and manage the impact of COVID-19 on their operational services and on the probable outturn position and to maintain and increase any operational underspends wherever possible.