Voting record

1) To approve the revisions to Part 3B of the Constitution as set out in Appendix B.

2) To delegate the appointment of up to 2 non-voting co-opted members to the Audit and Governance Committee and the arrangements for the selection of such members to the Monitoring Officer in consultation with the Chairman of the Audit and Governance Committee.

1)    Approve the name changes for the following parishes and parish councils:

a)    Biddestone to be changed to Biddestone and Slaughterford;

b)    Charlton (near Pewsey) to be changed to Charlton St Peter.

2)    Authorise the Solicitor to the Council to make any necessary legal orders and notifications to enact the above changes

a)    A net general fund budget of 2022/23 of £417.703m;

b)    The Council’s Tax requirement for the Council be set at £311.192m for 2022/23 with an average Band D of £1,638.16, an increase of 91p per week;

c)     The Wiltshire Council element of the Council Tax be increased in 2022/23 by the following:

i)                 A 1.99% general increase;

ii)               Plus a levy of 1% to be spent solely on Adult Social Care;

d)    The Corporate Leadership Team be required to meet the revenue budget targets for each service area as set out in Appendix 1 to this report, for the delivery of Council services in 2022/23;

e)    The changes in the fees and charges as set out in the report;

f)      The Capital Programme 2022/23 to 2029/30;

g)    The Capital Strategy set out in Appendix 9; and

It is recommended that Council endorse the Medium Term Financial Strategy and the forecast budget gap, after the utilisation of the budget equalisation reserve, of £10.705m for the 2024/25 financial year.

h)    The Housing Revenue Account (HRA) budget for 2022/23 of £24.173m;

i)       A 4.1% increase for social dwelling rents, except for rents currently over the formula rent which will    be capped at formula rent as per national guidance;

j)       All service charges related to the Housing Revenue Account (HRA)

Removal of ‘Introduce Parking charges for Blue Badge holders’ saving of £0.040m to be funded by an equal value reduction of the £1m High Streets budget

Removal of ‘Introduce Sunday charges in all car parks’ saving of £0.050m to be funded by an equal value reduction of the £1m High Streets budget

Removal of ‘Remove free event parking from Town Councils’ saving of £0.020m to be funded by an equal value reduction of the £1m High Streets budget

Removal of ‘Increase car parking charges by 10p per hour on every tariff’ saving of £0.600m to be funded by an additional saving ‘To increase annual, half-yearly and Quarterly Season Tickets by CPI (4%)’ which would deliver £0.024m and a £0.576m reduction of the £1m High Streets budget for the 2022/23 financial year and £0.120m funded by an equal £0.120m reduction in the High Streets budget in the 2023/24 financial year.

The proposal is to increase the Area Board Capital Grants to the previous level of funding of £0.800m prior to the re-allocation of £0.400m to Local Highways and Footpath Improvement Groups (LHFIG), an increase of the budget of £0.400m. It is proposed that this increase in the Capital Programme is funded by borrowing.

There is a revenue impact of undertaking additional borrowing to fund an increase in the Capital Programme, made up of interest and Minimum Revenue Provision (MRP). This impact will not affect the 2022/23 budget as any borrowing is assumed to be undertaken at the end of the financial year and therefore no interest cost is assumed and the MRP is charged the year following the expenditure.

The revenue impact of this proposal is £0.020m every year from 2023/24 and will have the impact of increasing the draw from the Budget Equalisation Reserve in 2023/24 to £9.122m and increase the budget gap in 2024/25.

1.    It be noted that on 3 December 2021 an Officer Decision was made by Andy Brown Interim Corporate Director of Resources.

a)    the Council Tax Base 2022/23 for the whole Wiltshire Council area as 189,964.37 [Item T in the formula in Section 31B(3) of the Local Government Finance Act 1992, as amended (the "Act")] and,

b)    for dwellings in those parts of its area to which a Parish precept relates as in the attached Appendix.

2.    Calculate that the Council Tax requirement for the Council’s own purposes for 2022/23 (excluding parish precepts) is £311,192,032.36.

3.    That the following amounts be calculated for the year 2022/23 in accordance with Sections 31 to 36 of the Act:

a)    £919,609,816   (Gross Revenue Expenditure including transfers to reserves, parish precepts and any collection fund deficit) being the aggregate of the amounts which the Council estimates for the items set out in Section 31A(2) of the Act taking into account all precepts issued to it by Parish Councils).

b)    £581,560,201   (Gross Revenue Income including transfers from reserves, General Government Grants and any collection fund surplus) being the aggregate of the amounts which the Council estimates for the items set out in Section 31A(3) of the Act

c)     £338,049,615   (Net Revenue Expenditure including parish precepts) being the amount by which the aggregate at 3(a) above exceeds the aggregate at 3(b) above, calculated by the Council in accordance with Section 31A(4) of the Act as its Council Tax requirement for the year. (Item R  in the formula in Section 31A(4) of the Act)

d)    £1,779.54 (Wiltshire Council band D tax plus average Town & Parish Councils Band D Council Tax) being the amount at 3(c) above (Item R), all divided by Item T (2 above), calculated by the Council, in accordance with Section 31B(1) of the Act, as the basic amount of its Council Tax for the year (including Parish precepts), as shown below:

e)    £26,857,582.57 (Aggregate of Town & Parish Council Precepts) being the aggregate amount of all  special items (Parish Precepts) referred to in Section 34(1) of the Act (as per the attached Appendix C).

f)      £1,638.16 (band D Council Tax for Wiltshire Council purposes only) being the amount at 3(d) above less the result given by dividing the amount at 3(e) above by Item T (2 above), calculated by the Council, in accordance with Section 34(2) of the Act, as the basic amount of its Council Tax for the year for  dwellings in those parts of its area to which no Parish precept relates, as shown below:

To consider the following motion submitted in accordance with the constitution:

With the United Nations Climate Change COP26 meeting being hosted by the United Kingdom in Glasgow just weeks away, Wiltshire Council declares its support for the Climate and Ecology Bill and calls on our County's Members of Parliament to publicly declare their support for it.