Labour's Budget Amendments

Labour’s amendment details are as follows (I apologise but of necessity they look a bit ‘anoraky’ - and I find I am unable to post the original table - so the alignement is a bit off, Sorry).
The second one perhaps looks a mite complicated. Both we agreed as acceptable amendments by the Finance Director and the second as a potential way forward. It can be seen from both what the Labour Group’s intentions were.

The first is fairly self-explanatory. We proposed


Retain Tennis Centre *                    £   50,000
Retain weekly black bag collection       150,000
200 extra grit bins *                            50,000
Keep Street lights on                          100,000
Additional street light replacement *    150,000
Total                                                 500,000


Financed by reducing Contingency Fund 500,000

* One-year non-recurring items only

The second looks a bit more complicated (and it is) but it works. The intention was to get sufficient money freed up to fund the Teacher’s pay settlement in full.

Teachers Pay Settlement             £ 2,430,000
Musical Instrument Loan                     20,000
Total                                            2,450,000
Financed by
SEN *                                                          £667,000
SRA – Pres. Officer/Deputy Pres                       16,200
Reduce Cabinet Portfolios -4                            64,836
Swansea Futures                                             79,000
Communications                                            100,000
Research & Info (Hd Infom. Cst Serv)              24,000
Contingency Fund                                          500,000
Teachers Redundancy (caveat)**               1,000,000
Total                                                          2,451,000
Balance 1,000

* Schools have to reduce demand for 1-2-1
**Schools have to sign up to redeployment.