Item 12 Appendix 4
West Dunbartonshire Council · 7 February 2024
Back to Corporate Services Committee — 7 February 2024 and its agenda
Text extracted from the council's PDF. Layout and reading order may differ from the original.
Page 1
WEST DUNBARTONSHIRE COUNCIL APPENDIX 4 MONITORING OF EFFICIENCIES AND MANAGEMENT ADJUSTMENTS 2023/24 Efficiency Detail Ref Chief Officer Budgeted Amount £ Projection of Total Saved £ Projection of Total Not Saved £ Comment 1 Income from Animal Feed Inspections RR01 A Douglas 14,000 14,000 - 2 Remove additional EHO posts Budget RR02 A Douglas 105,000 105,000 - 3 Remove a vacant section head post within Regularity and Regeneration Services RR05 A Douglas 70,000 70,000 - 4 Removal Of Residual Budget for Trainee RR06 A Douglas 8,000 8,000 - 5 Revert Trading Standards Officer Post to Authorised Officer RR07 A Douglas 13,000 13,000 - 6 Charging for Pre application advice RR09 A Douglas 10,000 10,000 - 7 Value of Works for Building Warrants RR10 A Douglas 5,000 5,000 - 8 Remove One Enforcement Officer Post RR11 A Douglas 26,000 26,000 - 9 Reduce support provided to local businesses and organisations including a reduction in officers within the Council's economic development team RR12 A Douglas 169,000 169,000 - 10 End affiliations to some external organisations RR14 A Douglas 3,000 3,000 - 11 Remove a vacant Trading Standards Authorised Officer post RR14 A Douglas 42,000 42,000 - 12 Labour increase in turnover target LAB ITEM L Slavin 250,000 250,000 - 13 Reduce the size of the Council's Audit & Fraud team by removing 1.8TE of vacancies rising to 2.8 in future years RES01 L Slavin 75,000 75,000 - 14 Clydebank Property Company RES02 L Slavin 30,000 30,000 - 15 Remove voluntary grant funding provided to West Dunbartonshire Community & Volunteering Services and reduce funding provided to the Clydebank Asbestos Group by 25% RES04 L Slavin 17,000 17,000 - 16 Reduce Reconciliation Team RES07 L Slavin 75,000 75,000 - 17 Close Municipal Bank RES08 L Slavin 40,000 21,764 18,236 Additional one off costs incurred in the closure of the bank. The unachieved amount of saving will be funded from the Smoothing Fund for 2023/24. However, it is anticipated that the full saving will be achieved in future years. 18 Increase the Council’s annual turnover savings target from £2.698m to £3.410m RES09 L Slavin 712,000 712,000 - 19 Reduce the size of the Council's Insurance Management team from four officers to three. RES10 L Slavin 50,000 50,000 - 20 Reduce manual processing by automating the generation of debtor and creditor invoices RES11 L Slavin 25,000 25,000 - 21 Central Admin Support Printing RES12 L Slavin 12,500 12,500 - 22 Education Lets RES13 L Slavin 12,500 12,500 - 23 100% Electronic Payments RES14 L Slavin 2,000 2,000 - 24 Remove TeamMate RES15 L Slavin 8,000 8,000 - 25 Remove discretionary element of long term empty properties RES17 L Slavin 52,000 52,000 - 26 Sales, Fees and Charges 10% Increase RES19 L Slavin 394,000 394,000 - STATUS: COMPLETE
Page 2
WEST DUNBARTONSHIRE COUNCIL APPENDIX 4 MONITORING OF EFFICIENCIES AND MANAGEMENT ADJUSTMENTS 2023/24 Efficiency Detail Ref Chief Officer Budgeted Amount £ Projection of Total Saved £ Projection of Total Not Saved £ Comment 27 Reduce the size of the Council's Automation team from three to two in 2023/24 and by a further one in 2024/25 RES21 L Slavin 37,500 37,500 - 28 Right size the Building Insurance Income budget RES23 L Slavin 80,000 80,000 - 29 Right size the Strathclyde Passenger Transport and Valuation Joint Board Budgets RES24 L Slavin 77,000 77,000 - 30 Remove the Provost Hospitality Fund which is used for hospitality for provost hosted events and for commemorating special events within the community RES05 L Slavin 9,000 9,000 - 31 Review of Capital Programme RES06 L Slavin 295,000 295,000 - 32 Reduction in Colour Printing PT03 V Rogers 12,000 12,000 - 33 Remove surplus budget in People & Change team PT04 V Rogers 29,000 29,000 - 34 Reduction in ICT Management PT06 V Rogers 50,000 50,000 - 35 Reduction in ICT Support PT07 V Rogers 82,000 82,000 - 35 2,891,500 2,873,264 18,236 1 Reduce accountancy provision by removing one vacant post and transferring 70% of a post to work charged to the HRA RES22 L Slavin 73,000 73,000 - 1 TOTAL IN PROGRESS 515,000 515,000 - 36 3,406,500 3,388,264 18,236 TOTAL COMPLETE STATUS: IN PROGRESS TOTAL EFFICIENCIES/MANAGEMENT ADJUSTMENTS