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Meeting: 16/06/2021 - Devon Authorities Strategic Waste Committee (Item 5)

5 Budget 2021/22 Position Statement pdf icon PDF 606 KB

Report of the Chief Officer for Highways, Infrastructure Development and Waste (HIW/21/29)

 

Decision:

RESOLVED that

 

a)    the 2020-21 final out-turn be noted; and

 

b)    the decision taken by the previous Vice-Chair of this Committee in approving the carry forward budget be noted and the proposals for spending the carry over and maintaining a contingency in paragraphs 3 and 5 be approved.

 

Minutes:

The Committee considered the Report of the Chief Officer for Highways, Infrastructure Development and Waste (HIW/21/29) which summarised the final out-turn for the 2020/21 budget and requested approval for how the carry-over would be spent.

 

The Report highlighted underspend across numerous budget lines, with each having underspent for reasons that related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The most significant underspend was that of the Reuse shops, which were closed for the majority of the 2020/21 year, with their underspend totalling £40,058. The total underspend across all budget lines was £65,151.

 

The Report proposed that the underspend of the Reuse shops was reallocated to boost their reduced 2021/22 budget to promote recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. It was proposed that the combined underspend of the Don’t let Devon go to waste fund and the Waste and Advisors Recycling contract (£21,235) be carried forward to develop a countywide Waste Prevention Pack for people moving house. It was proposed that the remainder be used to support the Clean Devon partnership.

 

Members’ discussion points with officers included:

 

·         concern that the £65,151 proposed to be allocated to Reuse shops could be spent better elsewhere because funding for Reuse shops would stop at the end of the financial year;

 

·         the particulars of the Waste Prevention Pack including suggestions that adjustments would need to be made to the leaflets for Devon’s varying districts; and

 

·         the importance of focusing on all ‘transient’ populations (including people moving into new houses and students) under this scheme in order to further reduce waste.

 

The Committee requested that more detail about the Waste Prevention Pack Pilot be brought to the next meeting.

 

It was MOVED by Councillor Croad, SECONDED by Councillor Dewhirst, and

 

RESOLVED that

 

a)    the 2020-21 final out-turn be noted; and

 

b)    the decision taken by the previous Vice-Chair of this Committee in approving the carry forward budget be noted and the proposals for spending the carry over and maintaining a contingency in paragraphs 3 and 5 be approved.

 



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