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Decision details
Treasury Management - Mid-Year Report 2018-19
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: No
Purpose:
This report advises the Cabinet of the Treasury Management activities and performance during the current year. It provides the opportunity to review the Treasury Management Strategy and make appropriate recommendations to Council to take account of any issues or concerns that have arisen since approving it.
Decisions:
The Assistant Director, Financial Services and Revenues, submitted a report that advises the Cabinet of the Treasury Management activities and performance during the current year. It provides the opportunity to review the Treasury Management Strategy and make appropriate recommendations to Council to take account of any issues or concerns that have arisen since approving it in February 2018.
The Council operates a balanced budget, which broadly means cash raised during the year will meet its cash expenditure in combination with funding from reserves. Part of the treasury management operations ensure this cash flow is adequately planned, with surplus monies being invested in low risk counterparties, providing adequate liquidity initially before considering optimising investment return.
The second main function of the treasury management service is the funding of the Council’s capital plans. These capital plans provide a guide to the borrowing needs of the Council, essentially the longer term cash flow planning to ensure the Council can meet its capital spending operations. This management of longer term cash may involve arranging long or short term loans, or using longer term cash flow surpluses, and on occasion any debt previously drawn may be restructured to meet Council risk or cost objectives.
Under rule 13.3, the recommendations of the report were agreed without being called for discussion.
RESOLVED that:
- Cabinet agree the Mid Year Report
The reason for this decision was:
The Code of Practice on Treasury Management requires, as a minimum, a mid-year review of the Treasury Management Strategy and performance. This is intended to highlight any areas of concern that have arisen since the original strategy was approved (February 2018). It is a requirement of the Code of Practice that the Mid-year review is considered by Cabinet and full Council.
The Council has increased its levels of income generation and this entails new borrowing over potentially long periods, with consequent risks in terms of asset valuations, credit worthiness, cash and reserve fund availability. Such risks cannot be considered in isolation of all the issues facing the Council now and potentially in the future.
Report author: Peter Grace
Publication date: 10/04/2019
Date of decision: 07/01/2019
Decided at meeting: 07/01/2019 - Cabinet
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