RESOLVED

That Cabinet agrees to:

1.    consider and agree the response to the Overview and Scrutiny Commission;

2.    resolve that, having considered all of the information in this report and noted the positive assurance statement given by the Director of Corporate Services based on the proposed strategy, the Council Tax in 2017/18, equating to a Band D Council Tax of £1,135.31 be approved and recommended to Council for approval.

3.    consider all of the latest information and the comments from the scrutiny process, and makes recommendations to Council as appropriate

4.    resolve that the Business Plan 2017-21 including the General Fund Budget and Council Tax Strategy for 2017/18, and the Medium Term Financial Strategy (MTFS) for 2017-2021 as submitted, along with the Equality Assessments (EAs), be approved and recommended to Council for approval subject to any proposed amendments agreed at this meeting;

5.    resolve that, having considered all of the latest information and the comments from the scrutiny process, the Capital Investment Programme (as detailed in Annex 1 to the Capital Strategy); the Treasury Management Strategy (Section 5), including the detailed recommendations in that Section, incorporating the Prudential Indicators and the Capital Strategy (Section 4) as submitted and reported upon be approved and recommended to Council for approval, subject to any proposed amendments agreed at this meeting;

6.    note that the GLA precept will not be agreed by the London Assembly until the 22 February 2017, but the provisional figure has been incorporated into the draft MTFS

7.    request officers to review the savings proposals agreed and where possible bring them forward to the earliest possible implementation date

8.    note that there may be minor amendments to figures in this report as a result of new information being received after the deadline for dispatch and that this will be amended for the report to Council in March

9.    consider and approve the Risk Management Strategy