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(Item FIP14/56 referred from Finance, Innovation and Property Advisory Board Minutes of 24 September 2014)

Consideration of recommendations to the Cabinet from the Finance, Innovation and Property Advisory Board of 24 September 2014.

The Cabinet resolved that the recommendations of the Finance, Innovation and Property Advisory Board be approved as follows:

1)           the methodology outlined in the report be adopted in calculating the allocations to parish councils under the Scheme of Financial Arrangements with Parish Councils for the year 2015/16; and

2)           parish councils be notified of their allocations as set out in Annex 1 to the report.

Item FIP14/56 referred from Finance, Innovation and Property Advisory Board minutes of 24 September 2014

Decision Notice D140119CAB

The joint report of the Director of Finance and Transformation and Cabinet Member for Finance, Innovation and Property gave details of proposed allocations to individual parish councils under the Scheme of Financial Arrangements with Parish Councils in accordance with the methodology agreed by the Council in 2013 following consultation with the Parish Partnership Panel.  It was noted that this would result in the budget for the Scheme in 2015/16 increasing by 1.3%.

Members were advised that as a consequence of the transition to individual electoral registration, the basic allocation for 2015/16 had been calculated as a 1.3% increase over the 2014/15 basic allocation instead of as a rate per elector.

RECOMMENDED:  That

(1)             the methodology outlined in the report be adopted in calculating the allocations to parish councils under the Scheme of Financial Arrangements with Parish Councils for the year 2015/16; and

(2)             parish councils be notified of their allocations as set out in Annex 1 to the report.
* Referred to Cabinet