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1. Increase the income target in Children & Young People in Savings strategy 2c (p136) from £16k to £20k (Net Income + £4k - Total Income + £4k)

2. The addition of a £40k “efficiency savings” target to Children & Young People central services who are benefiting from an additional £366,000 of funding originally allocated to schools (savings strategy 2a + 2b, p136) (Net Income + £40k - Total Income + £44k)

3. The addition of a £30k savings target to item “Reduce office expenses/staff related costs” (p137) in the Community Care and Housing area raising the target from £25k to £55k (Net Income + £30k - Total Income + £74k)

4. Work to a January 2007 start date for the waste PFI in Environment & Public Protection, investing £240k for the waste strategy provision to start in January 2007, saving £530k for alternative investments and keeping Council Tax down. Alternative provision will be made in the reserves from the Strategic Risk Fund (see below). (Net Income + £530k - Total Income + £604k)

5. Introduce a £1 evening car parking charge across Newbury car parks to afford a cut in the punitive rises of up-to 29.6% in season tickets. This would include retaining income from the Kennet Centre Multi Story Car Park to help fund the new cinema as per current Council Policy. (Net Income + £14k Total Income + £618k)

6. The addition of £25k for voluntary sector home visits (such as Age Concern) - expanding the existing service to further reduce social isolation and hospital admissions. (Net Cost - £25k - Total cost + £25k )

7. Invest an additional £33k to get the Thatcham Warden scheme started without delay, fully funded for a whole year. (Net Cost £33k - Total cost £58k)

8. Invest an additional £20k to the “Clean & Green initiative” to ensure the Council gets a full time energy conservation officer. (Net Cost £20k - Total Cost £78k)

9. Invest £2k to abolish the punitive and unfair £250 charges on residents for getting mobile CCTV erected to cut antisocial behaviour and crime in their neighbourhood. (Net Cost £2k - Total Cost £80k)

10. P120 - Replace the section on season tickets with the table below. Reducing the punitive rises in season tickets as outlined, funded by the £1 evening parking charge, no change to the overall expected additional income. (Net Cost -£14k - Total Cost £14k)

11. P136 - Invest £10k to save the Mrs Blands “Parents as First Teachers Scheme” to prevent its closure. (Net Cost - £10k - Total Cost - £24k)

12. P136 - Invest £64k to retain 2 posts in “Care Management Teams” schemes as there is “some risk that supporting fewer children will increase risk of family breakdown and demand for high cost social care” (Net Cost - £64k - Total Cost - £88k)

13. P136 - Restore the £40k cut to “Respite Care - disabled children” because “risk of family breakdown increases as support packages are reduced in number or size” (Net Cost - £40k - Total Cost - £128k)

14. P136 - Invest an additional £16k in “Non Staffing Savings” against voluntary organisations. There is a “potential risk to viability of smaller voluntary organisations providing services commissioned by the Council” (Net Cost - £16k - Total Cost - £144k)

15. P136 - Restore the proposed £9k cut to “the Arts”. (Net Cost - £9k - Total Cost - £153k)

16. P137 - Invest £30k to reduce the impact of the total abolition of the Agency budget listed as £90k “Staffing cost reductions - Homes for the elderly.” (Net Cost - £30k - Total Cost - £183k)

17. P137 - Invest 25k to retain one of the “Care Management Teams” posts marked as to be cut. (Net Cost - £25k - Total Cost - £208k)

18. P137 - Delete the proposed £20k cut listed as “Increase take up of frozen community meals”. Any decision on this would be taken only after the scrutiny on this issue had reported (scheduled report 4^th April) (Net Cost - £20k - Total Cost - £228k)

19. P137 - Invest £12k to fund 2 more residential beds listed as “Residential places - Older People” taking the total to 60, rather than the bare minimum of 58 (Net Cost - £12k - Total Cost - £240k)

20. P138 - Delete the additional £5k income target from “promotion of trade waste voucher scheme at CA site” which will increase fly tipping, deter responsible disposal of waste and hit local small businesses. (Net Cost - £5k - Total Cost - £245k)

21. P138 - Delete the £8k cut to the contribution to (SEEBEV) South East Berkshire Emergency Volunteers who gave considerable support to West Berkshire during the Purley floods. (Net Cost - £8k - Total Cost - £253k)

22. P139 - Replace £40k savings target for Information & Communication with £33k savings target to restore funding to the popular summer reading challenge enjoyed by 4776 children last year. (Net Cost - £7k - Total Cost - £260k)

23. With regard the Strategic Risk Fund amendment circulated in the Proposed Conservative Amendment: Transfer £240k of the £1.2m Strategic Risk Fund reserve to the Waste PFI reserve. Allocate the remainder £0.96m from the Strategic Risk Fund reserve to road resurfacing works resulting in a total of £2.26m invested in Highways.