The notice period is fixed; the contributions are not
The committee date is set, and four offices feed separately into the same paper. If there is still no sound financial section at the end, the whole item slips to the next meeting cycle.
1meeting dateThe committee date is set, and the notice period counts down to it.
4contributionsSpecialist department, treasury, legal department and council office write separately.
2circulation roundsThe draft goes through sign-off twice.
6weeks to the next meetingWithout a sound financial section, the next committee date is six weeks later, and preparation starts again from scratch.
Four contributions and two circulation rounds hinge on the paragraph the treasury delivers last, and without it the next meeting is six weeks away. If the financial section is ready for the first round, the data sheet puts the saving at 60% less preparation time.
The sequence shows a meeting cycle involving a specialist department, the treasury and the council office. The percentage is the headline figure from the data sheet.