Purpose

To recommend the General Fund Revenue Budget
2024/25 to Council.

Decision

1.         To thank
scrutiny committees who have considered our draft budget and to
thank the Overview Select Committee for endorsing the budget;
 

2.         To note
the equality assessment of the proposed tax rise and changes to
council tax premium rules, and (in the light of the findings and
having regard to the implications) to recommend the budget and tax
rise to the Council as proposed in the report;
 

3.         To ask
the Director of Finance to prepare the formal budget resolution for
2024/25, referred to in Section 3 of the Council report

Reasons for the decision

The revenue budget forms part of the budget
and policy framework.  Its approval is
the responsibility of the full Council. The City Mayor is
responsible for the preparation of a proposal for Council
consideration.
 
A draft budget was published, and a formal
decision to that effect was made by the City Mayor on 13th December
2023.  The budget was considered by a
number of scrutiny commissions, followed by Overview Select
Committee on 8th February.  Minutes of
the commissions and Overview Select Committee will be circulated to
Council members in advance of the budget meeting.