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CAIRNGORMS NATIONAL PARK AUTHORITY 
Finance Committee Paper 3 19/05/06 
 
CAIRNGORMS NATIONAL PARK AUTHORITY 
FINANCE COMMITTEE 

FOR DECISION 

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 10 February 2006. 


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 

a) 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 grants or consultancies valued at more 
than £10,000 used in meeting the Operational Plan. 

b) 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. 


RATIFICATION OF PREVIOUSLY APPROVED 
EXPENDITURE PROPOSALS – FOR DECISION 

Proposals previously agreed by e-mail 

1. Since the Finance Committee meeting on 10 February 2006 the following expenditure 
plans have been submitted to the Committee by e-mail for approval: 

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

(a) National Parks Marketing Activity 
A. Harper 
16 Feb 
15 
Yes 

(b) River Dee Catchment Plan 
D. Bale 
16 Feb 
18 
Yes 

(c) Butterflies & Moths 
D. Bale 
16 Feb 
27 
Yes 

(d) Interim Ranger Service funding 
M. Ferguson 
22 Feb 
20 
Yes 

(e) CNP Introductory Leaflet 
M. Ferguson 
22 Feb 
11 
Yes 

(f) Audit of the Historic Environment 
A. Harper 
31 Mar 
17 
Yes 

(g) Cross Park bus service 
A. Harper 
24 Apr 
13 
Yes 

2. The above expenditure received approval. Once a majority of responses in favour were 
received the expenditure proposals were authorised to proceed. There were no votes 
against. 

3. All the above expenditure plans have been submitted to our Sponsoring Department and 
approved by them. 


DENBY PETTITT 
May 2006 

denbypettitt@cairngorms.co.uk