Education Committee - 19/02/2007

At a MEETING of the EDUCATION COMMITTEE held at Dundee on 19th February, 2007.

Present:-

BAILIES

COUNCILLORS

Councillor Kevin KEENAN, Convener, in the Chair.

The minute of meeting of this Committee of 19th February, 2007 was held as read.

Unless marked thus * all items stand delegated.

I REVENUE BUDGET 2007-2010

Reference was made to Article IV of the minute of meeting of the Policy and Resources Committee of 15th January, 2007.

The Committee had before them the following:-

(i) PROVISIONAL REVENUE BUDGET VOLUME 2007-2010

(ii) REVIEW OF CHARGES 2007-2008

(iii) EXTENSION OF LINK NURSERY SCHEME

There was submitted Report No 104-2007 by the Director of Education relative to the above.

The Committee gave consideration to the report and noted the proposal to bringing nursery classes with less than 30 full-time equivalent (FTE) places, namely - Barnhill, Eastern, Macalpine, St Mary's and St Vincent's into the Link Nursery Scheme from August 2007.

At this stage of the proceedings the Chief Executive intimated that identical savings had been submitted by the Administration and the SNP Group.

Thereafter the Committee -

(i) noted the estimates of revenue expenditure for the Education Department for the year from 1st April, 2007 to 31st March, 2008, as contained on pages 3 to 14 of the Provisional 2007-2010 Revenue Budget Volume;

(ii) noted the Review of Charges 2007-2008 for the Education Department as detailed on page 2 of the Review of Charges document, totalling 49,700 which was already included in the Budget Volume;

(iii) noted the savings totalling 95,000 as shown in Appendix I to this minute; and

(iv) remitted further consideration to the Policy and Resources Committee.

Kevin KEENAN, Convener.