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CAIRNGORMS NATIONAL PARK AUTHORITY 
Finance Committee Paper 4 06/05/05 

CAIRNGORMS NATIONAL PARK AUTHORITY 
FINANCE COMMITTEE 

Title: RATIFICATION OF PREVIOUSLY APPROVED 
EXPENDITURE PROPOSALS 

Prepared by: DENBY PETTITT, FINANCE MANAGER 


Purpose 

To summarise expenditure that has been approved by the Finance Committee since their last 
meeting on 11 February 2005. 


Recommendations 

• That the Committee formally approve the expenditure detailed in para.1 that it has 
previously approved by e-mail outwith the normal quarterly meetings. 


Executive Summary 

(i) The Authority’s Financial Memorandum sets out the monetary level above which 
expenditure needs to be approved by the Finance Committee as a means of internal 
control. This primarily relates to the award of consultancies valued at more than £10,000 
used in meeting the Operational Plan. 

(ii) Since the Committee meets quarterly there will be instances when expenditure needs to be 
approved between meetings. At their meeting in August 2004 the Finance Committee 
agreed this could be done via e-mail and that a summary of the proposals agreed in this 
manner would be presented to the next scheduled meeting of the Committee. 

(iii) There were a higher than normal number of expenditure approvals in the run-up to the 
financial year-end. 

 

RATIFICATION OF EXPENDITURE PROPOSALS 

Proposals previously agreed by e-mail
 
1. Since the Finance Committee meeting on 11 February 2005 the following expenditure 
plans have been submitted to the Committee by e-mail for approval: 

Expenditure / Head of Group / Date circulated / £’000 / E-mail approval received 

(a) Plotter/Scanner for HQ 
D. Cameron 
22 Feb 
16 
Yes 

(b) Server upgrade 
D. Cameron 
22 Feb 
29 
Yes 

(c) VisitScotland Expo 2005 
A. Harper 
14 Mar 
19 
Yes 

(d) Geographic Information Systems licences 
D. Cameron 
17 Mar 
27 
Yes 

(e) Pool cars 
D. Cameron 
18 Mar 
32 
Yes
 
(f) Land Based Business Project 
F. Newcombe 
21 Mar 
41 
Yes 

(g) Landscape Capacity Study 
D. McKee 
22 Mar 
35 
Yes 


2. All the above expenditure received approval, once a majority of responses in favour were 
received the expenditure was committed. There were no votes against any item. 


DENBY PETTITT 
27 April 2005 

denbypettitt@cairngorms.co.uk