Issue - meetings

To consider the list of future Key Decisions.

The Chair indicated that the item on temporary accommodation for homeless households would be taken as an additional item of business on the agenda.

The items on single use plastics and Contact Centre dilapidations would come to the September Scrutiny meeting if the reports were available at that time. Councillor Fewings said that due to the current COVID crisis he would understand if the report on single use plastics slipped, however Councillor Pate said that this issue did need to be scheduled in as it had been ongoing for quite some time.

Councillor Townsend expressed concern regarding the lateness of the  Revenue, Capital and Treasury Outturn reports and Q1 monitoring report and asked if an emergency budget was being considered.  The Executive Member for Resources and Performance Management said that the Executive was putting together options and was awaiting to see if the Government was to release further funds to local authorities before calling for an emergency budget meeting.  The Head of Finance and Property said that there were many variables and any further tranches of funding from the Government would be significant on how the economy of Burnley would get through the coming months,  the Council needed to be in a position to take a proportionate response at that time.  He indicated that the close of the accounts had been delayed by one month due to COVID and the statutory deadline for the accounts was now the end of September.

It was agreed that Scrutiny would receive the finance reports in a timely manner and a revised timetable for scrutiny meetings would be aligned to the Executive reports.

IT WAS AGREED

That the 28 day Notice of Key Decisions and Private Meetings be noted and Officers look at a revised timetable of meetings of Scrutiny to align them with the Executive finance reports.