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PURPOSE OF COMMITTEE
To approve and monitor financial strategies,
budgets and financial performance in light of available funding,
including the development and delivery of the Council’s
capital programme as well as monitoring the development of the
Local Development Plan.
The Committee will also consider:
? strategies to support the city’s
economic growth;
? additions to the Capital Programme; and
? recommendations regarding the
Council’s property and estates portfolio.
The Committee monitors the delivery of all
services provided by the Corporate Services Function (with the
exception of those within the remit of the Staff Governance
Committee) and the Families and Communities Function relating to
Corporate Landlord (with the exception of those within the remit of
the Communities, Housing and Public Protection Committee and the
Education and Children’s Services Committee). It scrutinises
performance and approves options to improve services within those
Functions, set budgets to ensure best value and delivery of the
Council’s agreed outcomes.
REMIT OF
COMMITTEE
1. BUDGETS
The Committee will:
1.1 approve recommendations
regarding the Council’s resources including finance, staffing
structures and property; and monitor all Council budgets including
all Useable Reserves, and in particular:
1.1.1 scrutinise function budget monitoring
reports and make decisions to ensure that Council spending is
delivered on budget;
1.1.2 hold budget holders to account for the
proper control of the budget for which they are responsible;
1.1.3 approve changes to the budget including vire
between function budgets where this is in excess of the amount
delegated to officers in the Financial Regulations and Powers
Delegated to Officers;
1.1.4 consider and approve Outline and Full
Business Cases for projects added to the Capital Programme outwith
the budget process;
1.1.5 approve all non-capital programme
procurement activity, and capital programme procurement activity,
including Procurement Business Cases submitted in accordance with
the Procurement Regulations;
1.1.6 approve annual procurement workplans in
respect of the Capital Programme;
1.1.7 approve Procurement Business Cases in
respect of projects added to the Capital Programme outwith the
budget process, submitted in accordance with Procurement
Regulations;
1.1.8 approve the allocation of additional funding
to, or removal of funding from, existing projects, both capital and
revenue;
1.1.9 approve the addition of new projects to the
Capital Programme outwith the budget process;
1.1.10approve use of the
Council’s Useable Reserves;
1.1.11monitor the Code of
Guidance on Funding External Bodies and Following the Public Pound
and take such action as is required to ensure that the Council
meets its duties;
1.1.12receive formal
credit rating reassessment;
1.1.13approve financial
guarantees, including requests received from relevant Admitted
Bodies of the Pension Fund;
1.1.14consider numbers
and values of Council Tax, Non-Domestic Rates, Housing Benefit
overpayments and Rent made unrecoverable, as required in terms of
the Financial Regulations, and approve Non-Domestic Rates
write-offs;
1.1.15scrutinise the
progress and delivery of capital projects against the approved
business cases;
1.1.16review progress in
the delivery of the benefits of the Capital Programme, including
through the receipt and scrutiny of Post Project Evaluations (PPEs)
and Post Occupancy Evaluations (POEs); and
1.1.17request a report to
allow for the detailed consideration of any project which is of
particular concern or interest.
2.
SERVICE DELIVERY
2.1.1 oversee and make decisions relating to
service delivery;
2.1.2 approve options to improve/transform service
delivery;
2.1.3 scrutinise operational performance and
service standards in line with the Performance Management Framework
and consider recommendations for improvements where required;
2.1.4 receive the cluster risk registers relative
to its remit and scrutinise to ensure assurance that efficient
controls are in place;
2.1.5 approve all policies and strategies relative
to its remit; and
2.1.6 receive reports on inspections and peer
reviews in order to ensure best practice and note any actions
arising from those inspections and reviews.
2.2 In undertaking the aspects
at 2.1, the Committee will ensure that it is acting within the
budget set by Council and overseen by this Committee and in
accordance with best value and supporting delivery of the
Council’s agreed outcomes, commissioning intentions,
service
specifications and
service standards.
3. CITY
DEVELOPMENT AND REGENERATION AND STRATEGIC PLACE
PLANNING
The Committee will:
3.1 approve reports to support
the annual re-assessment of the Council’s credit rating;
3.2 approve the
Council’s actions for city growth and place planning except
in relation to major infrastructural planning;
3.3 oversee and approve the
preparation of the Local Development Plan, subject to final
approval thereon being given by Council; and
3.4 approve key actions
required by the Council to facilitate the delivery of strategies
(including partnership strategies) and the Inward Investment Plan
to support city growth and place planning.
4.
PROPERTY AND ESTATES
The Committee will:
4.1 approve recommendations
regarding the Council’s assets, property and estates;
4.2 hear and determine
requests for review under s86(10) of the Community Empowerment
(Scotland) Act 2015 of decisions taken in respect of community
asset transfer requests;
4.3 approve the procedure for
the Community Asset Transfer Review Sub Committee; and
4.4 approve the acquisition
and disposal of land and property.
EXECUTIVE LEAD: EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF CORPORATE SERVICES
