The Director of Finance presented the Annual Report for 2008/2009 ‘Delivering for Wirral’, which combined information contained in the previously produced Best Value Performance Plan and the Statement of Accounts summary leaflet to provide an overview of performance. Within the report were contributions from the Council Leader on reviewing the past year and looking forward; the Chief Executive on the delivery of the Council objectives; and the Director of Finance on the financial position.

He reported that the aim was to make the document widely available via the various customer access channels including the Council’s web-site, One Stop Shops, libraries/information points and distributed to partner organisations. He commented that the Council Tax leaflet set out the plans for the financial year and the Annual Report then presented a review of what had been achieved, thereby providing an overview for local people from whom any ideas and suggestions for improvement to the documents were being encouraged.

Resolved – That the Annual Report 2008/2009 be approved.