Agenda item

Councillor Dempster submits a report that seeks approval for a 2 year 0-19 Integrated Capital Strategy. Cabinet is asked to approve the recommendations as set out in Paragraph 3.2 of the report.

A minute extract from the meeting of the Overview and Scrutiny Management Board on 5 March 2009 will be circulated as soon as it is available.

Councillor Dempster submitted a report that sought approval for a 2 year 0-19 Integrated Capital Strategy.  Councillor Dempster noted that there was an unprecedented amount of funding being donated from both the Government and the City Council.

The Leader stated that a £5m grant had been agreed by Government for a centre dedicated to children and young people in the city centre.  This was a manifesto pledge and would be sited in the former Haymarket Theatre building.

RESOLVED:

that Cabinet recommend to Council:

1.      the Capital Programme detailed within this report and in particular the new proposals summarised in the table below.

2.      that the following status of the schemes detailed below subject to compliance with the Council’s Finance and Contract Procedure Rules.

i)        Block A, being schemes which can proceed once the programme is approved without a further report to Cabinet and Council;

ii)      Block B, being schemes which can proceed once the programme is approved under delegated authority to the Corporate Director of Children and Young People’s Services in consultation with the Cabinet Lead. Block B only relates to programmes and schemes where the funding is ring fenced for a particular purpose with set grant conditions. An update of these elements of the programme will be provided to Cabinet through the quarterly monitoring reports.

iii)    Block C, being schemes, which can proceed subject to a further Cabinet report approving the detailed implementation of the scheme.

New Proposals Table

The details each of these schemes can be found in pages 13 to 19, Appendix A of the report ‘Detailed Spend Programme’ and Appendix B ‘Programme and Project Details’.

*     School Kitchens, Block A relates to approval for schemes that are being designed and constructed in the first year of the Primary Capital Programme. Under Block C the remainder of the funding will be the subject of a further Cabinet paper. Please refer to paragraph 4.4.13 for further details.

** Primary Capital Programme, Block A relates to approval of the all the schemes detailed under pages 16 and 17 apart from Mellor Primary School which is under Block C and will be the subject of a further report.

iv)   Authorise the subsequent addition of up to £1m to the Capital Programme for the sustainability project at Rushey Mead School as detailed within paragraph 4.4.14 of this report if Government funding is allocated, and delegate authority to allocate such funding to the Corporate Director in consultation with the Cabinet Lead.