That:

(a)  the additional funding announced in the provisional settlement of £1.5m (£1.0m Rural Services Delivery Grant and £0.5m business rate levy account surplus) is added as a budget line for expenditure in 2019/20 as indicated in the table at paragraph 24, to support rural service delivery across the county;

(b)  the following be recommended to Council;

a.    the council tax base of 68,826.03 Band D equivalents

b.    an increase in core council tax in 2019/20 of 2.9%

c.    an additional precept in respect of adult social care costs of 2% applied to council tax in 2019/20 resulting in a total council tax increase of 4.9%; increasing the band D charge from £1,443.95 to £1,514.70 for Herefordshire Council in 2019/20;

d.    the balanced 2019/20 revenue budget proposal totalling £151.0m, subject to any amendments approved at the meeting, specifically:

e.    the net spending limits for each directorate as at appendix 3

f.     delegates to the section 151 officer the power to make necessary changes to the budget arising from any variations in central government funding allocations via general reserves;

g.    the medium term financial strategy (MTFS) 2019/2022 at appendix 1 be approved; and

h.    the treasury management strategy at appendix 4 be approved, this includes ratifying including the top five UK building societies as approved investment counterparties.

(c)  To establish a financial resilience reserve (as shown in paragraph 31), previously titled the minimum revenue provision reserve; and

(d)  Approve responses to scrutiny committee’s recommendations as provided in paragraph 63.