Decision details

The Minutes of the Meeting of the Policy and Resources Committee held on 19 October 2017 were noted. 

Arising under item 9 (Microsoft Licensing Costs) the Council:-

1.     Noted that the Council’s corporate body no longer operates an Enterprise Agreement with Microsoft with effect from 1 June 2017; and that savings of £208k are anticipated for 2017-18, £222k in 2018-19 and £264k in 2019-20 as a result.

2.     Noted that these savings would be required in future years in order to fund upgrades to the latest versions of software from 2020 onwards.

3.     Approved the retention of the savings in 2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-20 as earmarked reserves to be used to fund the expected additional costs of Microsoft software in 2020-21 to 2022-23 as this would smooth the annual budgetary requirement.

4.     Noted that the ICT Service would keep the plan for Microsoft software licensing under annual review.