Issue - meetings

Report of the Head of Finance

Presented by the Corporate Portfolio Holder

The Corporate Portfolio Holder presented the report to Members.

He advised Members that the report provided an update on the delivery of the current capital programmes and set out all the draft programmes for 2016/17 onwards.

He highlighted that the draft programme included £1m for essential vehicle fleet purchases and over £700k for Disabled Facilities Grants, that there were no new Coalville Special Expenses schemes planned for 2016/17 at this stage and that the Housing Revenue Account included decent homes, planned investment and resources for new build and acquiring affordable housing.

He informed Members that the report would go forward to Policy Development Group in January, then back to Cabinet for final approval and recommendation to Council to approve at its meeting on 23 February 2016.

Councillor R Blunt stated that he was happy to see the continued investment into the Improving the Customer Experience project and the second phase of the improvements to Coalville Market.

Councillor R D Bayliss highlighted the investment towards the 30 new homes to be built by the Council or acquired from external sources.

In the absence for Councillor A V Smith, Councillor N J Rushton highlighted the planned investment towards the maintenance of car parks and Council owned buildings in the Leisure service.

It was moved by Councillor N J Rushton, seconded by Councillor R D Bayliss and

RESOLVED THAT:

1.         The estimated General Fund, Coalville Special Expenses and H.R.A. Capital Outturn for 2015/16 and planned financing be noted.

2.         The draft Capital Programmes in 2016/17 detailed in:

·         Appendix “A” General Fund  and Special Expenses Capital schemes

·         Appendix “B” for HRA Capital schemes

And in 2017/18 these schemes only:

·       £630,000 for the vehicle replacement programme, as detailed        in paragraph 3.2

be agreed for consultation.

3.         The indicative Capital Programme schemes for 2017/18 to 2020/21 be noted.

4.         The proposed procurement routes and delegated authority to award the contracts, and any associated agreements in furtherance of the projects, as detailed in section 7 (procurement routes) of this report subject to final approval of the Capital Programmes in February 2016 be noted.

Reason for decision:To enable projects to be included in the Programmes for consultation.