Issue - meetings

Councillor Dempster submits a report that requests Cabinet’s approval to include the four capital projects, detailed on Paragraph 1.1 of the report, in the Children and Young People Services Capital Programme 2010/11.  Cabinet is asked to approve the recommendations set out in Paragraph 2.2 of the report.

A minute extract from the meeting of the Children and Young People Scrutiny Committee on 31 January 2011 will be circulated as soon as it is available.

Councillor Dempster submitted a report that requested Cabinet’s approval to include the following capital projects to the Children and Young People Services Capital Programme 2010/11:

• Alderman Richard Hallam – to approve the allocation of £0.900m of kitchen funding to improve the school’s kitchen and dining facilities;

• Extended Services: to release £0.235m of Extended Services funding to improve access to school buildings and facilities;

• Uplands Junior: to add £0.300m of school funding to support refurbishment work at the school; and

• Play Capital Grant: To note the reduced funding available and projects already approved by the Cabinet Lead and to approve the remaining proposed allocation to projects and the further work to complete to enable full spend by the end of March 2011.

Councillor Dempster stated that the capital programme was key to the success that the council were achieving across the city and expressed concern at the large reductions in capital funding that the council would be facing in the next few years.

Councillor Dempster added that the Children and Young People Scrutiny Committee had endorsed the report’s recommendations at its meeting on 31 January 2011.

RESOLVED:

                        that Cabinet:

1)     authorises the release of £0.235m of Extended Services Capital approved within Block C of the Capital Programme approved by Council in March 2009, to be allocated as set out in paragraphs 4.18 and 4.19 and Appendix 1.

2)     adds to the capital programme:

1.      £0.300m for the Uplands Junior School project (funded by the school) as set out in paragraph 4.20

2.      £0.900m for the Alderman Richard Hallam as set out in paragraphs 4.3 to 4.13

3)     in respect of the Play Capital Grant, notes the reduced funding available and projects already approved by the Cabinet Lead and approves the remaining proposed allocation to projects and the further work to complete to enable full spend by the end of March 2011.