The Lord Mayor informed the Council that in recognition of International Women’s Day she had invited three guest speakers to address the Council. The Lord Mayor introduced Lucy Powell MP (Manchester Central), Councillor Azra Ali and Councillor Sarah Judge.

To submit for approval and signature the minutes of the meeting of Council held on 30 January 2019

Decision

To agree the minutes of the ordinary meeting held on 30 January 2019 as a correct record.

The Leader of the Council moved a motion without notice (Council Rule 19.1(k) to suspend Council Rule 18.3, to allow the submission of an amendment that was moved on the Council Tax Resolution 2019/20 at the meeting of the Resources and Governance Scrutiny Committee 25 February 2019, after the deadline for the receipt of amendments.

Resolution

The motion was put to Council and voted on, and the Lord Mayor declared that it was carried.

Decision

That Council Rule 18.3 be suspended to allow the amendment on the Council Tax Resolution 2019/20 to be considered.

The proceedings of the Art Galleries Committee on 13 February 2019 which provided details of the Art Galleries budget for 2019/20 were submitted for approval. In addition, the part proceedings of the Executive on 13 February 2019 were submitted for approval, which contained details on the following:

·           The Council’s Budget 2019/20 covering report;

·           Medium Term Financial Plan 2019/20 - 2021/22;

·           Capital Strategy and Budget 2019/20 to 2023/24;

·           Corporate Core Business Plan 2019/20;

·           Neighbourhoods Directorate Business Planning 2019/20;

·           Children’s Services and Education Business Planning 2019/20;

·           Dedicated Schools Grant 2019/20;

·           Strategic Development Business Planning 2019/20;

·           Housing Revenue Account 2019/20 to 2021/22;

·           Manchester Health and Care Commissioning – Adult Social Care Business Plan and Pooled Budget Planning 2019/20;

·           Homelessness Business Planning 2019/20;

·           Treasury Management Strategy Statement and Borrowing Limits and Annual Investment Strategy 2019/20.

The Council considered:

·         The Capital Strategy and Budget (Budget 2019/20 – 2023/24) report of the Chief Executive and City Treasurer;

·         The Treasury Management Strategy Statement and Borrowing Limits and Annual Investment Strategy 2019/20 report of the City Treasurer; and

·         The Council Tax Resolution 2019/20 report of the Chief Executive, the City Treasurer and the City Solicitor containing revised budget calculations, as authorised by the Executive.

In addition, the Council received the minutes of the Resources and Governance Scrutiny Committee on 25 February 2019 that had considered the Budget Report 2019-2020.

The following amendment from Councillor Ellison to the Council Tax Resolution 2019/20 on the report of the City Treasurer and Chief Executive was circulated:

“To allocate a budget of £1.5m over three years, to be phased £420k in the first year and £540k in both subsequent years, to increase the capacity of the City Council to tackle anti-social behaviour in our neighbourhoods, to be funded out of the proposed reimbursement of £1.5m to the general fund reserve budgeted for in 2018/19.”

The Leader confirmed that the amendment proposed by Councillor Ellison had been accepted for incorporation into the Council Budget motion. Councillor Ellison confirmed that he had consented to the amendment being incorporated into the motion moved by the Leader of the Council.

Council was invited to approve proposals to ensure that the Housing Revenue Account for 2019/20 does not show a debit balance, as set out in Appendix 1 to these minutes.

As part of the recommendations within minute reference Exe/19/12 of the part proceedings: Medium Term Financial Plan 2019-2020 – 2021/2022 Council was also invited to approve for 2019/20:

(a)       an increase in the basic amount of Council Tax (i.e. the City’s element of council tax) by 3.49% (including 1.5% for adult social care);

(b)       the contingency sum of £1.6m;

(c)        delegation of authority to the City Treasurer, in consultation with the Executive Member for Finance and Human Resources to make allocations from the inflationary pressures and budgets to be allocated sum of £9.945m (as shown in Table 4 of those minutes). In doing so it was noted that the MHCC elements of those costs (Table 5) had been included in the Pooled Budget and were  ...  view the full minutes text for item 18.

To approve the part proceedings of the Executive on 13 February 2019 which contain details of the following:

·                The Councils Budget 2019/20 covering report;

·                Medium Term Financial Plan 2019/20 - 2021/22;

·                Capital Strategy and Budget 2019/20 to 2023/24;

·                Corporate Core Business Plan 2019/20;

·                Neighbourhoods Directorate Business Planning 2019/20;

·                Children's Services and Education Business Planning 2019/20;

·                Dedicated Schools Grant 2019/20;

·                Strategic Development Business Planning 2019/20;

·                Housing Revenue Account 2019/20 to 2021/22;

·                Manchester Health and Care Commissioning - Adult Social Care Business Plan and Pooled Budget contribution 2019/20;

·                Homelessness Business Planning 2019/20; and

·                Treasury Management Strategy Statement and Borrowing Limits and Annual Investment Strategy 2019/20

Appendix 1

Housing Revenue Account Budget 2018/19 – 2021/22

Appendix 2 – the proposed Capital Programme Budget