Colchester Council is broadly on target to meet its budget.
The finance and audit scrutiny panel was told by finance manager Sean Plummer that there were underspends in some areas and overspends in others, but broadly speaking, the council was on budget.
Street services is likely to be £603,000 overspent and demographic and organisational services is expected to be £100,000 in the red.
But, balancing that up, money will be saved in areas including IT systems, corporate policy and communications, customer service centre, environmental policy, financial services, planning and protection, revenue services, and social and economic regeneration.
Leisure and housing strategic services are expected to come in on budget.
Much to the delight of the panel, the activity centres, which last year faced closure, are expected to be on budget by the end of the financial year
Published Wednesday, February 16, 2005
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