Issue - meetings

Report of the Service Director Finance and Commercialisation and Cabinet Member for Finance (where relevant) detailing proposed changes to existing Revenue and Capital Budgets to incorporate changes to this and future years' budget.

DECISION MADE:  (CAB 17/18 20043)

On consideration of the report of the Cabinet Member for Finance, Cabinet agreed the following:

(i)  To note in accordance with the Financial procedure rules capital expenditure of £1.47m in 2017/18 capital programme to facilitate the purchase of additional modules from Unit 4 to enable the ERP system, as part of the capital digital transformation project. This is subject to Council Capital Board reviewing the business case to proceed.

(ii)  To approve the one-off increase in the revenue budget of £1.35M to facilitate the change process, and this to be funded from savings as a consequence of the project and the Transformation Reserve. This expenditure will be phased over 2017/18 and 2018/19 with the majority of the expenditure being in 2018/19.