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Item FIP 15/47 referred from Finance, Innovation and Property Advisory Board minutes of 23 September 2015

(Item FIP 15/47 referred from Finance, Innovation and Property Advisory Board minutes of 23 September 2015)

Consideration of recommendations to the Cabinet from the Finance, Innovation and Property Advisory Board of 23 September 2015.

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 2016/17; and

(2)            parish councils be notified of their allocations as set out in Annex 1 to the report and be advised that 2016/17 could potentially be the last year in which the current methodology is employed.

(Item FIP 15/47 referred from Finance, Innovation and Property Advisory Board minutes of 23 September 2015)

Decision Notice D150078CAB

The report of the Director of Finance and Transformation gave details of proposed allocations to individual parish councils under the Scheme of Financial Arrangements with Parish Councils for 2016/17 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 allocations for the forthcoming year increasing by 0.4% with the calculation based on a return to a rate per elector after the transition to individual electoral registration.

Attention was drawn to the Overview and Scrutiny Committee’s programmed review of grants to the voluntary sector and other third parties, including funding for parish councils.  It was considered appropriate to alert all parish councils to the potential for change in the way any funding might be allocated in the future, this matter having been highlighted at the meeting of the Parish Partnership Panel on 10 September.

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 2016/17; and

(2)            parish councils be notified of their allocations as set out in Annex 1 to the report and be advised that 2016/17 could potentially be the last year in which the current methodology is employed.
* Referred to Cabinet