Decision Maker: West Yorkshire Combined Authority
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: Yes
To approve the transport levy and revenue budget for 2022/23 for the Combined Authority, including agreeing items of expenditure over £1 million.
Resolved:
a)
That approval be given to the Combined Authority
proposed revenue budget for 2022/23.
b)
That approval be given to the indicative capital
programme and budget for 2021/22 – 2024/25.
c)
That progress on the 2022/23 business plan be noted
and that the proposal to review the Combined Authority’s
corporate priorities is endorsed.
d)
That in accordance with the powers contained in the
Local Government Finance Act 1988 (as amended) and by virtue of
article 9(6) of the West Yorkshire Combined Authority Order and the
Transport Levying Bodies Regulations 2015 (as amended) a levy of
£103 million be determined for the year ended 31 March
2023.
e)
That the Director, Corporate and Commercial Services
be authorised to issue the levy letter in respect of the financial
year ending 31 March 2023 to the five District Councils in West
Yorkshire.
f)
That a payment of £5.09 million be made to the
five District Councils in accordance with Table 1 of the submitted
report.
g)
That authorisation be given to the Director,
Corporate and Commercial Services to arrange appropriate funding
for all expenditure in 2021/22 and 2022/23 subject to statutory
limitation, including the most appropriate application of capital
funding as set out in the submitted report.
h)
That approval be given to the continuing of the
policy, effective from 2017/18, for recovering the Combined
Authority costs of managing the capital programme against the
capital programme spend being mainly West Yorkshire plus Transport
Fund, Transforming Cities, Getting Building Fund, Brownfield
Housing, Local Transport Plan Integrated Transport and any schemes developed in year. For
2022/23 the estimated total value is £12 million.
i)
That the adoption of the CIPFA Code of Practice for
Treasury Management in Public Services be reaffirmed.
j)
That the treasury management policy as set out in
Appendix 5 of the submitted report be approved.
k) That the prudential limits for the next three years as set out in Appendix 5 of the submitted report be adopted.
Report author: Angela Taylor
Publication date: 03/02/2022
Date of decision: 03/02/2022
Decided at meeting: 03/02/2022 - West Yorkshire Combined Authority
Effective from: 11/02/2022
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