Issue - meetings

The purpose of this report is to:

• Inform Members of the likely outturn position of the 2008/09 Capital Programme, based on the spend profile and information to the end of January 2009;
• To seek approval for any resulting changes to the programme;
• Inform the Executive Member of any slippage, and seek approval for the associated funding to be slipped between the relevant financial years to reflect this.

Advice of the Advisory Panel

That the Advisory Panel advise the Executive Member for City Strategy to:

(i)                 Approve the adjustments to the allocations to the LTP Programme identified in Annex 2;

(ii)               Approve the slippage of £149k of CYC funding to 2009/10;

(iii)             Approve the removal of £25k of CYC funding from the City Strategy Capital Programme;

(iv)              Approve the decrease to the 2008/09 City Strategy capital budget, subject to the approval of the Executive.

Decision of the Executive Member for City Strategy

RESOLVED:             That the advice of the Advisory Panel be accepted and endorsed.

REASON:                  To enable the effective management and monitoring of the Council’s capital programme.

Members considered a report which

·        Informed them of the likely outturn position of the 2008/09 Capital Programme, based on the spend profile and information to the end of January 2009;

·        Sought approval for any resulting changes to the programme;

·        Informed the Executive Member of any slippage, and sought approval for the associated funding to be slipped between the relevant financial years to reflect this.

The currently appoved capital programme for 2008/09 amounted to £8.658m, financed by £6.903m of external funding, which left a cost to the Council of £1.775m.

Officers reported that a summary of the proposed main changes to the programme were included at Annex 2 to the report. If the proposed changes were accepted the total value of the City Strategy Capital Programme for 2008/09 would be £8,603k including overprogramming. The overprogramming would reduce from £762k to £124k and the budget would decrease to £8,479k.

Members questioned the following aspects of the report:

• Details of the additional costs for work undertaken on Clifton Bridge and its approaches and at what stage these costs were known;
• Underspend on the Lendal Sub-Station scheme and the use of Cycle City funding for schemes.

Officers confirmed that they would circulate, by email, a detailed breakdown of the additional costs for the work undertaken at Clifton Bridge, for member’s information.

Following further discussion 

Advice of the Advisory Panel

That the Advisory Panel advise the Executive Member for City Strategy to:

(i)                 Approve the adjustments to the allocations to the LTP Programme identified in Annex 2; ^1.

(ii)               Approve the slippage of £149k of CYC funding to 2009/10; ^2.

(iii)             Approve the removal of £25k of CYC funding from the City Strategy Capital Programme; ^3.

(iv)              Approve the decrease to the 2008/09 City Strategy capital budget, subject to the approval of the Executive. ^4.

Decision of the Executive Member for City Strategy

RESOLVED:             That the advice of the Advisory Panel be accepted and endorsed.

REASON:                  To enable the effective management and monitoring of the Council’s capital programme.