Meeting Details

Members are reminded that they should declare any personal and/or prejudicial interests at this point and that they should leave the meeting room before any item, in which they have a prejudicial interest, is discussed.

To agree the minutes of the Strategy and Resources Committee meeting, held on 8 March 2007, and that they be signed as a correct record.

To receive any questions, statements or petitions, of which notice has been received, from members of the public.

This report proposes a service and budget planning process, for approval by the Fire Authority on 18 July 2007.

Following on from the report, which was agreed at the March 2007 meeting of the Strategy and Resources Committee, the Chief Fire Officer and the Treasurer will give a brief presentation outlining progress on the Medium Term Financial Plan.

The Integrated Risk Management Planning Manager will give a presentation providing an analysis of the CIPFA statistics.

This report is intended to update Members of the Committee on the financial outlook for the Fire Authority of these national schemes. This will inform the Medium Term Financial Plan and the three-year budgeting process for 2008/09 to 2010/11.

The Strategy and Resources Committee received a report at its meeting on 25 January 2007 concerning consultation by the Department of Communities and Local Government on Extension to Charging. Fire Service Circular 10/2007 accompanies the findings of this consultation and includes further consultation on adding one specific category to the Charging Order. Officers feel that it would be a useful extension of charging powers and would recommend responding accordingly. The Committee is asked to agree the response to this further consultation.

This report sets out the draft Statement on Internal Control to be included in the Fire Authority's Final Accounts for 2006/07.

This is the latest of the regular Risk Summary Reports to the Strategy and Resources Committee. As previously, these reports are intended to enable Members to meet the requirements of this Committee's Terms of Reference as they relate to the Fire Authority's management of corporate risk.

Members are asked to consider a resolution under the Local Government Act 1972 that the public be excluded for the following item on the grounds that it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information, as defined by the provisions of Part I of Schedule 12A to the Act, by virtue of paragraphs 3 and 4.