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Medium-term funding gap widens
The Chief Financial Officer set out a major medium-term financial pressure: increased inflation, higher borrowing costs, demographic decline affecting grant allocation, and a projected £11.5m funding …
“Speaker 8: Thank you, Provost. The report provides counsel with details of the updated finance strategy for 2026 through 2036, all review and approval…”
Budget gap and funding pressure
Management highlighted a three-year revenue budget gap estimated at £1.5m for 2026-27 to 2028 and said capital allocations from the Scottish Government have been reducing annually. The council also fa…
“Challenges and risks identified to reflect on those which were previously reported to council by all of the the finance strategy. I so over the two-ye…”
Borrowing headroom for capital
The council reported long-term borrowings of £159m, within treasury management limits agreed by council. Officers said there is borrowing headroom, but any increase must be supported by revenue repaym…
“Councillor Wilson. >> Yeah, thank you. Um Um I've been in this committee for a long, long time and we uh chief financial officer retired. We had a per…”
Current year overspend/underspend mix
The period 5 finance report shows a small combined underspend overall, but with a significant social care overspend offset by a health underspend. This indicates ongoing pressure in social care servic…
“"as a period five we're currently projecting an under spend of £46,000 for the combined budget. Social care is projecting an overspend of £672,000. Th…”
Policy and Resources underspend
The committee was told that the Policy and Resources revenue budget is forecasting a substantial underspend, with some of that amount earmarked to support loan charge pressures. This is a clear financ…
“This report reported revenue project and then we'll want the revenue budget updated. Speaker 7: Hi. This is the regular report to update on performan…”
Data protection policy updated
The committee was asked to approve a routine update to the data protection policy. Officers said the changes were not substantive and were intended to align the policy with current practice.
“Speaker 14: Oh, thank you, convener. This is the data protection policy update for approval. The policy sets a council's approach to the appropriate p…”
External audit actions in progress
The committee received an update on three external audit actions, including one overdue item linked to the local development plan and two actions tied to equality involvement in the next council plan …
“So, this paper provides an update on external audit actions that are in progress. So, there's three actions in the report. Of which one is past the or…”
Governance statement approved
The annual governance statement for 2025/26 was presented as part of the draft accounts, with management stating the council's governance arrangements are fit for purpose. The committee was asked to n…
“The annual governance statement has been included in the 25/26 draft accounts, which we'll move on to shortly. And this will be subject to external au…”
£31.8m capital programme spend
The council recognised £31.8m of capital expenditure in 2025/26, up from £23m the previous year. Major items included £7.5m for the new LG facility for the health and social care partnership, £3.3m on…
“A quick summary of the the capital program spend. So the the annual council recognized expenditure of 31.8 million pounds a on the rate a range of pro…”
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