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CAIRNGORMS NATIONAL PARK AUTHORITY 
Finance Committee Paper 2 23/02/07 


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 1 December 2006. 


Recommendations 

That the Committee formally approve: 

a) 
the expenditure detailed in para. 1 ; 

The grant to the Aviemore and the Cairngorms DMO (see para. 5&6) has already 
been approved by a quorate meeting of the Committee on 12 January and appears in 
this paper purely as a matter of public record. 


Executive Summary 

a) 
At the September 2006 meeting the Finance Committee approved a change to the 
approval process whereby expenditure between £10,000 and £24,999 is approved by 
its Convener, together with the Chief Executive and Head of Corporate Services 
outwith the normal quarterly Committee meetings. Any expenditure approved in 
this way is reported to the next full Committee meeting. 

b) 
For expenditure that is £25,000 or over the Finance Committee members meet, 
outwith the normal quarterly meetings, in order that the merits of the proposed 
expenditure can be discussed and CNPA staff are available to clarify any questions 
that may arise. 



RATIFICATION OF PREVIOUSLY APPROVED 
EXPENDITURE PROPOSALS 


Proposals Previously Agreed by the Finance Committee Convener, Chief 
Executive and Head of Corporate Services 

1. 
Since the last report to Finance Committee, the following expenditure plans have been 
approved by the Finance Committee Convener, the Chief Executive and Head of 
Corporate Services in line with the two-tier approval process agreed at the September 
2006 meeting: 

Expenditure / Head of Group /Date circulated / £’000 /Approval received 

(a) Bursaries 
A Harper
23 Nov
24
Yes

(b) Schools Training Liaison Officer 
A Harper
23 Nov
16
Yes

(c) Cairngorms Explorer 3 
A. Harper 
15 Dec 
21 
Yes 


2. 
Expenditure on the Bursaries and Schools Training Liaison Officer followed on from the 
Vocational Training paper that was presented to the Board in August 2006 (Paper 3). 
Funding is for three years and two years respectively. 

3. 
The Cairngorms Explorer 3 is the third year that the Park is part-funding production and 
distribution of a timetable of public transport in the Park. Prior to approval, 
correspondence highlighted the need to review future commitments to all CNPA 
publications, including the Cairngorms Explorer, and the Expenditure Justification Form 
had highlighted that a full review of publications was scheduled for 2007/08. 

4. 
All expenditure received unanimous approval. 


Proposals Agreed by Finance Committee members, outwith their normal quarterly 
meeting. 

5. 
Members met on January 12 to consider the grant of £25,000 to Aviemore and the 
Cairngorms DMO (Destination Management Organisation) for 2006-07. Chris Taylor, 
from the Economic and Social Development Group also attended to give background to 
the grant and answer members’ questions. 

6. 
After discussion, which included consideration of the likely demand from other tourist 
organisations within the Park area and the fact that the grant was solely in respect of 
2006-07 and did not commit the Park Authority to future funding, the proposed 
expenditure received unanimous approval from the members present. 



DENBY PETTITT 
7 February 2007 

denbypettitt@cairngorms.co.uk