Decisions

Budgets are made available to wards in the form of a single, integrated pot that wards can use flexibly to help address their priorities and to develop community initiatives which benefit local residents. The budgets may be used to give grants or to buy services.
Spending decisions are delegated to the Director of Customer and Communities on the recommendation of ward members.
Recently recommended schemes to be approved are attached at the Annex.

Budgets are made available to wards in the form of a single, integrated pot that wards can use flexibly to help address their priorities and to develop community initiatives which benefit local residents. The budgets may be used to give grants or to buy services.
Spending decisions are delegated to the Director of Customer and Communities on the recommendation of ward members.
Recently recommended schemes to be approved are attached at the Annex.

Approval from Government for the York UKSPF Investment Plan is expected in November or December 2022. In order to undertake work beginning in January, orders must be placed for the necessary supplies by the end of November. This means that a decision must be taken to pre-allocate UKSPF funds to the project prior to formal approval from Government. In the unlikely event that the Government funding does not materialise, the work will be funded from the council’s capital highway maintenance budget. This can be managed through anticipated slippage of the programme in 2022/23 and the 2 year impact will be incorporated into the 2023/24 programme that is agreed after the final budget is approved in February 2023.
Decision made : To commission highways improvements in Acomb Front Street and allocate £395k from the York UKSPF Investment Plan (intervention E1) to the work, with the anticipated split between years to be £250k in 2022/23 and £145k in 2023/24.

Corporate Director of Place gave approval to proceed to re-purchase property in Anne Street.

The need for homes across all affordable tenures remains high. This property is within a block which is significantly owned by CYC and there are asset benefits of retaining a stake in this property. Based on the valuations given it is expected that this additional investment would secure our revenue rental income, with the HRA capital one-off house purchase budget initially being used to purchase the remaining equity pending the re-sale of the equity share. This secures this property as a CYC shared ownership dwelling.

The decision has been taken to enter the Deed of Variation with Wates Construction to change the completion dates and contract sum of the original Lowfield Green contract in light of the delays experienced on the site since the Covid 19 pandemic. The decision has been taken following comprehensive financial and legal advice. Entering the Deed of Variation effectively extends the terms of the existing contract to the completion date of the 7th March and fixes the contract sum to prevent further inflationary increases.