Approved the process and timetable for the review and approval of the Financial Strategy, the 2010/11 Budget and 2010-15 Medium Term Plan; endorsed the temporary appointment of two posts in Housing Services Division to deal with homelessness at a cost of £70,000 in 2009/10 and £80,000 in 2010/11 and requested officers to meet these additional costs from within existing approved budgets; approved a supplementary estimate of £25,000 to meet the costs of additional awards of discretionary hardship relief from business rates and approved a transfer of unused capital leisure grants to the general revenue grants budget to facilitate additional grants of £20,000 in 2009/10 and £14,000 to be made to the Citizens Advice Bureaux to enable them to respond to the increased service demands.