The
Senior Finance Manager presented a report on Staff
Recharges.
The
Committee noted that the report set out details of the current
recharges from the Council to the Trust for 2017/18 and the
methodology used to calculate them.
The
Senior Finance Manager advised that:-
·
The figures set out in Appendix A to the report
represented staff salaries along with an allocation of associated
overheads such as office accommodation, telephones and computer
charges.
·
The charges would be reviewed in the Autumn as part of the Council’s budget setting
process and would be adjusted at the end of the year to reflect
outturn figures.
·
A separate financial management system was proposed
for the accounts of the Trust. This
would impact on the recharges as they would need to be taken out of
the Council system and dealt with separately.
·
A further report would be brought forward once
agreement had been reached on how the finances of the Trust would
be dealt with.
·
It was proposed that some form of Service Level
Agreement should be set up to ensure any recharges to the Trust
were accurate and reflected the level of service provided by the
Council.
RESOLVED: That
1.
The current recharges be
noted and that the Committee requests that a further report be
brought detailing how the increases have occurred.
2.
That
Officers be requested to work on a
service level agreement to be progressed and completed by March
2018.
Voting: For:
unanimous