Finance & Delivery Committee - May 2021

This document contains a notice of meeting for the Cairngorms National Park Authority on 14 May 2021. The meetings will be held via video conferencing, with the Planning Committee meeting at 10am and the Finance & Delivery Committee at 2.30pm. The Planning Committee meeting will be live streamed and available to watch online from 10am via the provided link, and the agenda and papers for the meetings will be available on the National Park Authority website the Friday before the meeting.

This document contains the agenda for the Cairngorms National Park Authority Finance & Delivery Committee meeting held via video conferencing on 14 May 2021 at 2.30pm. The agenda includes welcome and apologies, approval of minutes from previous meetings, matters arising, declarations of interest, discussion of the draft outturn for the year to 31 March 2021, discussion of the position paper 2021/2022 budgets, any other competent business, and the date of the next meeting.

This document contains the draft financial outturn for the Cairngorms National Park Authority for the year ending 31 March 2021, which is being presented to the Finance & Delivery Committee. The report highlights that despite challenges due to COVID-19, there was a small underspend across resource, capital, and non-cash budget allocations. The Finance team views this as a positive achievement in a challenging year. The report also notes that the figures are subject to audit, and provides details on income, expenditure, and underspends in various areas, including staff costs, operational plans, and project expenditure. The document also notes the impact of COVID-19 restrictions and changes in funding mechanisms on specific projects, as well as the deferral of IFRS 16 implementation.

This document contains an update on the Cairngorms National Park Authority's 2021/22 budget, which was approved in March 2021. The Finance and Delivery Committee has been asked to note the update, which includes year-end financial management and payroll costs for April. There is an additional £34,000 available to support strategic objectives, but redistribution decisions are not proposed at this stage. Work is underway to reconfigure working arrangements as the Authority moves out of Business Continuity Planning around COVID19, and additional resources will be held as contingency cover for priority organisational development work. The approved staff budget for 2020/21 was £4,102,000, and the month 1 salary costs were £314,600. Finally, confirmation of the 2021/22 settlement for Peatland Recovery is still to be received.